Hamas has charged Head of Palestine’s self-rule Authority Mahmoud Abbas of granting concessions on the illegal Zionist settlements in the occupied West Bank. According to Press TV, the protest came after Ahmed Qurei, a senior aide to Mahmoud Abbas, suggested that Zionist settlers in the West Bank could be allowed to live in the occupied territories as Palestinian citizens in a future Palestinian state.
Fawzi Barhoum, a Hamas spokesman was quoted by Xinhua as saying “Qurei’s statements are dangerous. They give the Zionist settlements a legitimate cover to steal the Palestinian people’s land.”
He added “This move aims at getting Israel out of its crisis especially after the world consensually stressed an end to the settlement issue on the Palestinian land,” “The settlement is a sort of aggression that must be resisted.”