Dr. Sami Abu Zuhri, the spokesman of Hamas Movement in Gaza Strip, strongly criticized Thursday the way the former PA chief and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas is handling the Palestinian issue, accusing him of damaging the just cause of the Palestinians.

In an interview with the Quds satellite TV channel, Abu Zuhri stressed, "The Palestinian people could no more buy deceptive slogans and words that couldn’t be implemented on the ground, and at the same time Abbas and his team in Ramallah closely coordinates security with the Zionist occupation then tell the Palestinian people they were implanting conditions and terms of the roadmap plan, including fighting the Palestinian resistance, then they are indeed deceiving their people and use beautiful slogans to mislead them".

He added that Abbas, through his political action, is attaching the fate of Fatah, the PA, and the whole Palestinian issue to US and Israeli finance, "something which Abbas ought not to do."

Moreover, Abu Zuhri pointed out that the futile negotiations that Abbas and his associates were and still are conducting with the Zionist occupation have pushed the Palestinian issue down below zero, noting that the continuation of such barren negotiations provides political cover to the Israeli settlement activities on the occupied Palestinian lands.

Furthermore, Abu Zuhri said that Abbas, till now, refuses to sit with Hamas Movement to bury the hatchet between them and to restore the Palestinian unity, but he (Abbas) rushes to sit with leaders of the Zionist entity, accusing him of being the one who fights the Palestinian resistance in the West Bank.

"Now they should evaluate and confirm where they (Abbas and Fatah) are standing? Are they with reconciliation and with the Palestinian people or are they with the occupation?" Abu Zuhri remarked.

On the anticipated visit of Hamas's leader Khalid Mishaal to Cairo, Abu Zuhri disclosed that the visit aims at discussing the Egyptian paper and suggestions for national reconciliation, stressing his Movement's keenness on making the Egyptian efforts in this regard succeed.

"The ball is in Fatah's court if it really wants to achieve the national reconciliation", he said. isra haber