GAZA CITY, May 12 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - The Palestinians voiced their disappointment Sunday at the outcome of an Arab mini-summit, with Hamas resistance group vowing to press on with attacks against Israel until the end of occupation.

"Our plan is very simple: maintaining the (Israeli) occupation means pursuing the resistance. We will continue to resist the occupation until it ends," senior Hamas political leader Abdul Aziz al-Rantissi told IslamOnline Sunday in Gaza City.

Rantissi said that the official Arab stand has not changed, stressing that ‘only the Palestinian people and their Intifada are to determine the best way to free their land’.

Asked whether conducting bomb attacks in Israel would not systematically provoke violent Israeli retaliations, Rantissi said that Hamas' attacks were in answer to "the crimes perpetrated by the Zionist entity."

"They have killed hundreds of Palestinian civilians and we are blamed for killing a dozen Israeli army reservists who are presented by Israelis as civilians," he said.

Voicing deep disappointment at the resolutions of the Arab mini-summit, held in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh Sunday, gathering Egypt’s Mubarak, Saudi Arabia’s Prince Abdullah and Syria’s Bashar, Rantissi emphasized that ‘their condemnation of violence in all its forms put us in the same boat with the occupiers’

The three leaders statement, issued Saturday, said the Arabs were determined to make peace with Israel and rejected "all forms of violence."

Hamas’s Rantissi was not the only Palestinian resistance leader to express anger at the Arab leaders failure to take a clear-cut stance, supporting the Palestinians right to resist the Israeli occupation.

“Resistance operations against the occupation are legal self-defense as long as the occupation continues,” another Hamas leader, Ismail Abu Shanab said.

“The mini-summit was another attempt to twist the facts, under American pressure and conspiring against our people. Such diplomatic maneuvers are conducted under U.S. pressures,” Abu Shanab added.

For his part, Sheikh Nafiz Azzam, an Islamic Jihad leading member, expressed his disappointment at the summit’s statement, saying the Palestinians expected more support, to counter balance the continuing Israeli aggressions and U.S. bias.

Dr. Fareed Abu Dhahir, Teacher of Journalism at Naggah University in Nablus, said the summit had many political implications related to the Palestinian front.

“The meeting (Mini-summit) worked on marketing the American and Israeli ideas, using the Saudi initiative and Arab settlement proposals as a cover for those ideas.

“The most dangerous points, however, are withdrawing any support for martyr operations (bomb attacks). Thus, imposing the U.S. and Israeli security perspective on the Palestinians. As well as marketing the idea of the regional peace conference, proposed by (Israeli Prime Minister Ariel) Sharon. That conference is expected to be an attempt to kill the essence of the Saudi initiative, on one hand, and neutralizing all Arab states as far as Palestine is concerned, on the other,” said Abu Dhahir.

For his part, Palestinian cabinet secretary Ahmed Abdel Rahman called on all Palestinian factions Sunday, including Hamas, to limit their operations to the West Bank and Gaza.

"In the Palestinian people's current situation, all the factions must realize the necessity of limiting the resistance to the territories of 1967," Abdel Rahman said, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP).

Aware of the negative impact abroad of attacks inside Israel, he said that such attacks only helped "isolate the Palestinian people on the international scene".

He said such a strategy will allow Palestinians to "win the battle" against Israel's Sharon, who "uses (Palestinian) attacks in Israel to mobilize international public opinion, notably in the United States, against the Palestinian people."

Without explicitly referring to suicide attacks, Mubarak, Bashar al-Assad and Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz expressed their "sincere" hopes for peace with Israel and rejected "violence in all its forms," Saturday at mini-summit held in Egypt.

Their stance was deemed "encouraging" by Israel.