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Hamas confirms indirect talks with Israel over
Gaza
Saturday February 16, 2013 11:07:52 PM,
IANS
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Gaza: Hamas and Israel
held indirect discussions, faciliated by Egypt, to further
implement the November ceasefire that ended their clash in Gaza, a
Hamas official said Saturday, reported Xinhua.
The talks involve taking more steps by Israel to ease its blockade
on the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip and stop attacking Palestinians
in areas Israel has recently given to the Palestinians -- the
extra 3 nautical miles for fishermen and what had been a buffer
zone along Gaza's northern and eastern borders with Israel,
according to senior Hamas official Khalil al-Hayya.
Al-Hayya told reporters that Hamas envoys do not meet the
Israelis, but Egypt communicates between the two sides.
Hamas envoys have recently met Egyptian officials and urged them
to assess Israel's conduct in Gaza, al-Hayya said, noting that
Israel "violates" the ceasefire by targeting fishermen and farmers
and not completely lifting restrictions on the transport of goods
through the Israeli-controlled commercial crossings.
In November, more than 160 Palestinians and three Israelis were
killed in a cross-border fight between Hamas and Israel. Israel
later arrested dozens of fishermen and shot dozens of Palestinians
who approached its borders.
Al-Hayya said his movement can respond "fiercely" to the Israeli
violations, but prefers to giving time for the Egyptian mediatory
efforts.
Meanwhile, he said the Palestinian reconciliation cannot happen
without an end to what he called crackdown against Hamas
supporters in the West Bank.
He said Khaled Mashaal, chief of Hamas politburo, briefed
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, head of the Fatah party, last
week about the arrests of Hamas members in the West Bank.
The reconciliation aims at restoring political unity to the
Palestinian territories, which were split when Hamas routed pro-Abbas
forces and ousted his Fatah movement from Gaza in 2007. Fatah
still holds sway in the West Bank.
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