Zahar: Abbas leading Palestinians to civil war
Palestine, Politics, 6/13/2006

Visiting Palesintian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mahmoud al-Zahar, a Hamas member, on Monday night accused the Fatah Leader Mahmoud al-Abbas of leading the Palestinians towards a civil war.

Al-Zahar who arrived in Damascus late Monday night said right after his arrival that Abbas has got engaged in a nasty plot against his own people.

The statement in an interview came simultaneously with the live broadcast on an Arab satellite station of an armed group's attack against the Palestinian Prime Minister's (a Hamas member) Headquarters.

An Israeli report said "Hundreds of armed Palestinians loyal to Abbas opened fire Monday night on the Palestinian parliament building in Ramallah, and set fire to the cabinet compound. A Hamas legislator, Khalil al-Rabaei, was kidnapped, hours after another Hamas legislator was kidnapped and released in the Gaza Strip. Shooting was also reported at legislative offices in Nablus.
The violence followed earlier clashes in the Gaza Strip, where Hamas gunmen targeted the Fatah-allied preventive security services headquarters in Rafah. Those clashes left two people dead and more than a dozen wounded."

Al-Zahar who is one of the Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, leaders added that Abbas would never achieve the objectives behind launching a referendum titled the "Palestinian National Reconciliation Document."

Mahmoud Abbas has announced July 26th as the day for the nationwide Palestinian referendum.

On the other hand, the Palestinian Prisoners have signed another National Reconciliation Document that was last month also signed by dozens of renowned Palestinian political activists, in which they have asked for the formation of an independent Palestinian state in lands occupied in 1967 War and continuation of national resistance until the materializing of that objective, among other demands.

The document put on referendum by Mahmoud Abbas on the contrary permits the PLO and the head of the Palestinian Authority to unilaterally decide about launching peace talks with Israel, under such conditions that Hamas elected Government, led by Prime Minister Esmaeil Haniyeh has still not recognized Israel's legitimacy.

Criticizing Fatah Movement for lunching the referendum, al-Zahar said, "The main objective is recognition of Israel as a legitimate political system, and their secondary objectives include recognition of the Oslo Treaty and creating obstacles in the way of the Palestinian liberation movement." Hamas has titled Abbas's referendum plan as "A plot hatched against Palestinians' solidarity" and "A White Coup."

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