[ 23/04/2011 - 08:26 AM ]
GAZA, (PIC)-- The Hamas Movement said it rejects the plan about a Palestinian state without the right of return which the US administration intends to declare soon.
Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri told the Palestinian information center (PIC) that his Movement refuses this American overture and considers it an attempt to terminate the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes they were expelled from in 1948.
Spokesman Abu Zuhri warned that the US administration is planning to extract a waiver of the right of return from the Palestinian Authority (PA) in exchange for an empty pledge of a Palestinian state.
The spokesman stressed that what is needed is a genuine international support to end the Israeli occupation and not to establish an illusionary Palestinian state.
The US plan stipulates that Israel should recognize a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders, and in return the Palestinians should waive the right of return to "Israel's territories", accept occupied Jerusalem as a capital for the two states and protect Israel's security.
For his part, senior Hamas official Wasfi Qabha expressed his belief that this US plan is an attempt to circumvent the Palestinian people's right to freedom and independence.
"America wants to establish a Palestinian state on paper just like someone selling fish still in the sea," Qabha opined in a press statement to the PIC.
The US wants to show itself as keen on the establishment of a Palestinian state while it has used its veto against a resolution calling on Israel to end its settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian lands, the Hamas official said.
He added this plan is part of the US support for Israel's oppressive and barbaric policies against the Palestinian people.
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