Palestinian chief Mahmoud Abbas says that keeping the captives provides Israel with a justification for his attacks against Gaza.
Hamas condemned the remarks made by the president of the Palestinian Authority (PA), Mahmoud Abbas, who urged the Palestinian group to power Gaza to release Israeli captives and to bed.
The senior Hamas official, Basem Naim, said on Thursday that Abbas’s remarks made a day earlier were “insulting”.
“Abbas repeatedly puts the blame for the crimes of the occupation and its continuous aggression on our people,” he said.
On Wednesday, Abbas urged Hamas to release all the captives, saying that keeping in Israel “apologies” to attack Gaza.
“Hamas has given excuse for criminal occupation to commit its crimes in the Gaza Strip, the most important being the detention of the hostages,” said Abbas at a meeting in Ramallah, the headquarters of the AP in the West Bank occupied by Israeli.
“I am the one who pays the price, our people pay the price, not Israel. My brother, put them back. “
“Every day there are dead,” said Abbas. “You son of dogs, put back what you have and get out of this ordeal,” he added, leveling an Arab epithet in Hamas.
Rift
There have been profound political and ideological divisions between the Abbas Fatah party and Hamas for almost 20 years.
Abbas and the AP have often accused Hamas of having undermined Palestinian unity, while Hamas criticized the first for collaborating with Israel and reprimanded the dissent of the West Bank.
The Palestinian mujahideen movement, which separated from Abbas Fatah in the 2000s, published a statement on Telegram on Wednesday, condemning Abbas’ remarks.
“We strongly condemn the offensive declarations made by President Abbas at the meeting of the Central Council concerning the resistance and the combatants of the resistance of our people, without taking into account the sacrifices and the struggle of our people and ignoring the suffering and the ongoing sacrifices of the prisoners,” the statement said.
“We condemn the continuation of the continuation of this speech by the direction of the AP, which criminalizes the resistance and absolved the occupation of its crimes in progress against our people for decades, in particular the genocidal war against Gaza, the annexation and the judgment of the West Bank and Jerusalem, and the serious suffering suffered by our prisoners of West Bank.”
The movement also called Abbas to apologize for its remarks.
“We call the president of the Palestinian authority to apologize for this offensive speech and to reverse all the stages which strengthen the division and to align themselves with the Zionist will. We call it to return to the membership of the people and their choices and stop continuing the absurd path of surrender and compromise. ”
Since the Israel campaign in Gaza resumed on March 18, at least 1,928 people have been killed in Gaza, which has made the total number of deaths since the war broke out at least 51,305, according to the Enclave Ministry of Health.
Discussions on a new ceasefire have so far been unsuccessful, and a delegation from Hamas is in Cairo for renewed negotiations with Egyptian and Qatari mediators.
