Mesha'al Announces Hamas Conditions for Accepting a New Truce

Mesha'al: The Israeli occupation has failed in its war on Gaza

[ 11/01/2009 - 12:34 PM ]

DAMASCUS, (PIC)--

Khaled Mesha'al, the political bureau chairman of the Hamas Movement, said that the Israeli occupation terrorist government has completely failed in its war stressing that with their ugly crimes they have created resistance in every house and every town when their stated aim was to destroy the resistance.

He said in a televised speech on Saturday evening that the Israeli occupation terrorist government war is not a war against Hamas, it is a war against all Palestinian people, against the Palestinian cause and against the whole Ummah.

He said that the occupation set its aims, but these aims started to erode with time, the enemy wanted to end the Hamas control of Gaza, end the resistance and put a strop to resistance rockets to impose solutions that will lead to the liquidation of the Palestinian cause.

He added that the Israeli occupation terrorist government has failed in its aim, but admitted that it succeeded in something else; "It succeeded in its shameful atrocities against our children and women, in numerous massacres, in locking people in their homes then treacherously bombing those homes, kidnapping and executing [Palestinian young men] and committing a real holocaust in Gaza."

His message to the Zionist Israeli occupation terrorist government was that with their ugly war on Gaza, they have killed the last chance of a peaceful resolution because the people stopped believing in such a process after years of futile negotiations.

He added that with these atrocities against the Palestinian children and women in the Gaza Strip, the Zionist entity has succeeded in shortening its own life.

Four Hamas conditions for accepting a new truce

With regard to political moves and initiatives Mesha'al said nothing less than a:

(1) complete halt of the aggression,

(2) withdrawal of occupation troops,

(3) total lifting of the siege, and

(4) opening all crossings, topped by the Rafah border crossing.

He championed in this respect a new agreement on administering the Rafah border terminal.

He stressed that the Palestinians have the right to resist as long as there is occupation and that his movement will not accept any initiative compromising Palestinian rights.

He also rejected the deployment of international forces in Gaza and said that they would be considered as another foreign occupation army.

The Hamas leader finally called on the Arab countries to convene in an emergency summit to deal with the situation in Gaza.

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