The talks in Egypt on national reconciliation collapsed a couple of weeks ago although Egypt hopes to drag the paties back to the table, but given the background of continued collaboration with Israel by elements in Fatah it is difficult to see any opening anytime soon.
GAZA, (PIC)-- The Hamas change and reform parliamentary bloc on Sunday strongly denounced the attempted assassination of Sheikh Hamid Al-Beitawi, a prominent religious figure and a Hamas MP, stressing that this crime is a transgression of all red lines and an indication of the gravity of the violations committed in the West Bank against Hamas cadres and leaders.
In a news conference held in the Shihab news agency, MP Mushir Al-Masri, the secretary-general of the Hamas parliamentary bloc, held ex-PA chief Mahmoud Abbas and the leaders of his security apparatuses in the West Bank fully responsible for the safety of Sheikh Beitawi.
Masri told the press conference that a member of the preventive security force called Noman Amir at noon Sunday physically assaulted and cursed Sheikh Beitawi as he was outside a mosque escorted by his son, adding that the assailant also uttered blasphemous remarks before opening fire directly at the Sheikh.
The lawmaker demanded Fatah leadership and parliamentary bloc to state their positions clearly toward this cowardly crime and punish the assailants and corrupt security elements or else they would be considered involved in the assault.
For his part, MP Ismail Al-Ashqar, the head of the committee on security and local government in the PLC, condemned the attempted assassination as a dangerous assault, warning that this crime would adversely affect the inter-Palestinian dialog if Fatah did not declare its position on what happened.
The Palestinian government headed by premier Ismail Haneyya also expressed its strong condemnation of this crime, highlighting that the assault on Sheikh Beitawi is an extension of the crimes committed in the Gaza Strip ahead of June 2006 by the PA security apparatuses which do the same thing now in the West Bank.
In a statement received by the PIC, spokesman for the government Taher Al-Nunu deplored Fatah spokesman Fahmi Al-Za'areer for justifying the crime and trying to provide cover for its perpetrator, saying that such justifications reveal that the attempted murder was already planned and politically motivated.
Spokesman Nunu stressed that such crimes confirm that the PA and Fatah leaders in the West Bank are not serious at all about the national reconciliation and only seek to further aggravate the internal division in the Palestinian arena through persisting in killing citizens, lawmakers and religious figures and coordinating with IOF troops against the Palestinian resistance.
For their part, Hamas-affiliated prisoners in Israeli jails deplored the heinous crime committed against Sheikh Al-Beitawi, calling on Hamas leaders in the West Bank to take precautions.
Thanks to PIC
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