DAMASCUS (AFP) – Hamas and other Syria-based Palestinian groups on Wednesday rejected any truce with Israel that would not lift the crippling blockade imposed by the Jewish state on the Gaza Strip.
"Factions of the resistance reject the signing of a truce agreement before the opening of all crossing points, the lifting of the blockade and the arrival of supplies," Hamas and seven other groups said in a statement.
The statement came as Egypt holds separate talks with Israeli and Hamas officials to secure a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, where a truce went into effect on January 18 ending a 22-day war that devastated Gaza.
About 1,300 Palestinians and 13 Israelis were killed in the conflict.
A meeting of Syria-based factions also rejected "any regional or security arrangement that would compromise the security of our people and of the resistance," against Israel, the statement said.
Representatives of the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, which along with Hamas is opposed to the moderate Fatah faction of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, also attended the meeting.
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