Hamas democratically-elected Premier Ismail Haniya has condemned a planned meeting between the US President Obama and Israeli and Palestinian Authority officials.
Haniya made the remarks during Eid al-Fitr prayer's sermon in the Gaza Strip on Sunday.
The US President Barack Obama, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Palestinian Authority's acting chief Mahmoud Abbas will hold talks on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday.
The Hamas top official said the meeting would be invalid and would impose no obligation on Palestinians.
Haniya believes the position of the Obama administration is not different from that of the previous US administrations.
"From Gaza, from a place of strength, we say we will not relinquish our rights," Haaretz quoted Haniya as saying.
The meeting is part of US efforts to revive the so-called Middle East peace talks, which have been stalled due to Tel Aviv's insistence to expand the illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.
This latest effort comes shortly after the US Special Envoy George Mitchell failed to convince the Israeli officials to halt the expansion of the settlement activity during a previous visit to the region.
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