Al-Dostour: Hamas denies Mashaal quiting the political scene

Sources of the Hamas movement in Damascus denied in a statement to the Jordanian daily al-Dostour from Damascus issued on Monday that the chairman of the Movement's political bureau Khaled Mashaal intends to resign from his post and quit the political scene and return back to Jordan.

Hamas sources said that these news are baseless and that Mashaal is still on top of his work and does not definitely to leave it.

The sources denied that the Syrian security forces interfere in Mashaal work, according to the Lebanese opposition al-Mashriqeyah radio, rather the sources stressed that the Syrian authorities do not interfere in the policy of the Hamas movement nor in its way of working.