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Hamas Vows to Step Up Resistance |
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Saturday, 24 November 2007 |
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GAZA CITY, Nov 24--Hamas will step up attacks against Israeli occupying troops in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank after a US-hosted conference next week, an official said Saturday.
Tuesday's conference in Annapolis, Maryland, is aimed at reviving Palestinian-Israeli negotiations that have been frozen for seven years.
"The period that will follow the Annapolis conference will witness an increase of the resistance against the Zionist occupation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip," said Mussa Abu Marzuq, top aide to Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal.
"The Annapolis conference has two objectives: to help shore up (Israeli Prime Minister) Ehud Olmert after his defeat in the south of Lebanon and secondly to cover up for American plans of a war against Iran," he said.
Israel was locked in a devastating war with Lebanon's Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon last year.
Hamas insists that Palestinian Authority chief Mahmud Abbas has no mandate to negotiate on behalf of all the Palestinians and Abu Marzuq said that Olmert is politically unable to offer concessions to the Palestinians.
Abu Marzuq, who is based in Syria along with Meshaal, urged Palestinians to voice their rejection of the conference by organizing demonstrations.
The group has said it will hold on Monday in the Gaza Strip a counter-conference to the US meeting and urged Arab countries planning to attend the peace conference not to normalize ties with Israel.
Hamas violently seized control of the Gaza Strip in June in deadly battles with Abbas' secular Fatah faction. |
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