Haniyeh rejects Palestinians resettlement in Sinai

Sat, 30 Jan 2010

Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh has rejected the new Israeli conspiracy of the resettlement of Palestinians in the Sinai under a land swap deal for a two-state solution.

Haniyeh's remarks on the issue came at a Friday sermon at the Al-Omary Mosque in Jabaliya.

"The democratically-elected Palestinian government of Hamas does not accept the plan for the resettlement of Gaza in the Sinai or any other location as the alternative (Palestinian) homeland,” Haniyeh said.

He further criticized Egypt's construction of an underground wall along the border with the besieged Gaza Strip, declaring that "the Zionist Regime (Israel) is regarded as the prime threat to the security of Egypt."

"We were exposed to a three-dimensional war; economically, by imposing the siege on the people of Gaza; militarily, by attacking the people and committing crimes which are mostly represented in the war on Gaza, and politically as the occupation started to detain lawmakers and the representatives of the Palestinian people in order to undermine the Palestinian legitimacy and democracy," he further explained.

"we were exposed to a three-dimensional conspiracy that firstly attempted to spread chaos, and secondly tried to make objections and not commit to the tasks, and thirdly by efforts to defame us through media incitement, dissemination of falsehoods and rumors, and fabricating facts that are not true.”

Haniyeh also insisted that the American hegemony in the region was defeated.

The Gaza Strip has been under a severe Israeli siege since June 2007, when the democratically-elected Palestinian government of Hamas took control of the sliver.

Along with the complete Israeli siege, which has plagued the economy of the already impoverished region, the Cairo government also refuses to open the Rafah border crossing.

The closure has disrupted the delivery of necessary aid cargos into the territory, where almost half of its 1.5-million population is dependent on aid handouts.

Amnesty International says both Israel and Egypt are to blame for "collectively punishing" the population of the Gaza Strip because of the the long-imposed siege of the coastal sliver.

Source: PressTV.
Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=117406§ionid=351020202.