By
Mohammad Gamal Arafa, Abd El-Reheem Ali, IOL Staff
CAIRO,
November 13 (IslamOnline) - The two main Palestinian resistance
movements Fatah and Hamas reaffirmed Wednesday, November 13, that
resistance is the basis for ending the Israeli occupation, establishing
the Palestinian state and restoring the rights of the Palestinian
people.
Concluding
their four-day negotiations in Cairo, the two groups agreed on forming a
permanent committee for dialogue between them to work out problems or
misunderstandings once reported.
They
also agreed on setting up another committee inside Palestine to
coordinate resistance and field work.
Fatah
and Hamas pledged to work for consolidating national unity and resume
and activate dialogue with all other Palestinian resistance gropus.
In
exclusive statements to IslamOnline, Osama Hamdan, the spokesman for the
Hamas delegation, attributed the success of the negotiations between
Hamas and Fatah to their keenness on salvaging Palestinian unity, as
well as Egypt's assistance by creating a positive atmosphere for the
dialogue.
A
source of the Fatah delegation told IslamOnline that the two sides
agreed to form a permanent committee for dialogue to foil any attempt to
drive a wedge between Fatah and Hamas.
He
said that a halt in martyr operations was not the main topic on the
agenda, adding that Fatah joins in the Palestinian struggle to end
Israeli occupation.
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The
Fatah official asserted, however, that the two sides spoke about
"rationalizing operations" so as not to target civilians.
"When
Palestinians kill, in their operations, Israeli civilians, who might as
well be pro-peace, this magnifies international sympathy for Israel at
the expense of our cause and unifies Israelis around their far-right
leaders," said the Fatah source.
The
Hamas spokesman denied that dialogue touched on the issue of halting
martyr operations.
"Both
Fatah and Hamas carry out operations and it would be unreasonable for
Fatah, which carries out operations just like us, to ask for halting
operations," he stressed.
The
final communiqué of the Fatah-Hamas negotiations - to be broadcast by
Egyptian media later Wednesday - stipulates expanding dialogue to
cover all issues of the Palestinian people, factions and powers.
It
also reiterates the Palestinian people's legitimate right to resist
Israeli occupation.
But
the communiqué came short of naming specific leaders from both Fatah
and Hamas to steer the permanent committee for dialogue, leaving the
choice to the two movements' leaderships
