“There is no doubt that the purpose of the assassination” of the leader of the Palestinian Islamist movement “was to prolong and expand the war” in the Middle East, the president of the Palestinian Authority told the Russian news agency RIA.
The killing of Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniya last Wednesday in Tehran was intended to prolong the war in the Gaza Strip and complicate talks to resolve the conflict, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told the Russian news agency RIA.
“There is no doubt that the purpose of the assassination” of the leader of the Palestinian Islamist movement “was to prolong and expand the war” in the Middle East, Mr. Abbas said, according to RIA.
“It will have a negative impact on the ongoing negotiations to end the offensive and withdraw Israeli troops from Gaza,” he added.
Ismail Haniya was killed in the capital of Iran in the early hours of last Wednesday. Iran and Hamas have vowed to avenge his death; the development has heightened fears that the war in the Gaza Strip — now in its 305th day — will ignite the entire Middle East.
“We consider this a cowardly action and a dangerous development in Israeli politics,” Mahmoud Abbas told RIA.
“The Israeli occupation authorities must abandon their ambitions and end their attack on our people and our cause, comply with international law and implement the Arab peace initiative, as well as an immediate and lasting ceasefire and withdrawal (of their armed forces) from the Gaza Strip,” he ruled.
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