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| Hamas denies creating crisis with Egypt |
| 2008-04-10 |
| (Xinhua) -- Ahmed Yousef, an aide to the deposed Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haneya denied on Wednesday that Hamas or the government is seeking to create a crisis with Egypt. However, Yousef said in a statement that "the volition of defying the imposed blockade on Gaza can't be postponed and the Palestinian people can't accept to die before the sight and the hearing of the entire world." "This blockade is part of the international collusion against Hamas movement and Prime Minister Ismail Haneya in order to overthrow the government. The blockade is an Israeli and American pressure to achieve this goal," said Yousef. Yousef threatened that "if the blockade continues imposed on the Gaza Strip, we will be obliged to open a hole on the wall of the blockade and breach the borders because our people are dying." "There will be no settlement in the region if the blockade is not ended, and we will left it either by war or by peace," said Yousef. On Tuesday, Khalil el-Hayya, a senior Hamas leader in Gaza, also threatened to storm the borders with both Israel and Egypt and break a ten-month blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip. Israel imposed a strict blockade on the Gaza Strip and considered the enclave a hostile entity after Hamas militants routed President Mahmoud Abbas' security forces and took control of the vicinity in mid-June last year. |
| Posted by:Fred |