By IOL Palestine office

GAZA CITY, June 24 (IslamOnline) - The Hamas movement will not struggle against the Palestinian Authority (PA) because of the house arrest decision against the movement’s leader, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, which the PA issued Monday, June 24.

“Our struggle is not with the authority, and we are not enemies,” said Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the spiritual leader of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas, in an interview with IslamOnline.

“We will not use our weapons against the Palestinian Authority or against any other Palestinian, as our weapons will remain pointing at the Israeli enemy,” he added.

But Yassin rejected the orders by Palestinian President Yasser Arafat putting him under house arrest, saying that it comes at a time the Israeli army invades the Palestinian territories and kills Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.

Such a decision does not help the Palestinian national interest, instead, it serves the occupier interests, adding that Israel and the U.S. want Hamas struggle with them to turn into an interior struggle with the Palestinian authority, so that Israel will benefit from it and continues its aggression.

“And instead of rewarding the Palestinian Authority for its decision to put me under house arrest, the Israelis besieged President Yasser Arafat and put him under house arrest in Ramallah,” Yassin said.

Describing the relation between Hamas and the authority as according to what should be done in the current deteriorating situation, Yassin said that “the more concessions are given to the Israeli enemy, the more they ask, as the Israelis will never be satisfied unless we all surrender.”

This will never happen because the Palestinian people will not stop its resistance and surrender and bow in front of the Israeli storm, he added.

“That is why Hamas and the Palestinian authority can not have normal relations,” he added.

However, Yassin said that there are several attempts to solve this crisis with the Palestinian Authority and predicted that it will end peacefully.

Yassin said he was not informed of this decision of house arrest, but on the ground, police forces are surrounding his house and the media says there is a house arrest.

He added that he will pursue a normal life and will go out.

The national and Islamic follow up committees met and refused the house arrest orders, he said.

They also met with Eltayeb Abdel Rahim, secretary general of the Palestinian presidency and demanded the cancellation of the orders, but he told them that it was up to ‘Abu Ammar’ [Yasser Arafat], he added.

Yassin also confirmed that the resistance movement will retaliate for the Israeli killing of six Palestinians, including four from the Ezz El-Din El-Qassam Brigade.

“We will take revenge on the enemy and answer their attacks,” he said.

“The moment the enemy kills and destroys, the Palestinian Authority does the same to the Palestinian people,” he added.