Abbas called to quit Israel negotiaton

Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas called on the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to withdraw from negotiations with the Zionist regime in protest at the regime's crippling siege of the Gaza Strip on Monday.

 

Hamas spokesperson Sami Abu Zuhri said that pressing forward with peace talks while Gaza suffers would be a crime. He called on Abbas to enter into negotiations with other Palestinian factions in order to restore national unity.

 

He said Israel's total closure of the Strip constitutes execution through siege.

 

After months of increasingly tight closure, Israel imposed a total lockdown on the Gaza Strip on Friday, cutting supplies of food, medicine, and fuel.

 

In a press conference in Gaza City, Abu Zuhri urged Palestinians to pray and fast in hopes of lifting the siege.

 

As for the Egyptian-Palestinian controlled Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip, Abu Zuhri called on Arab leaders to defy Israeli-American policy and work towards opening that border.