Hamas: IOA is a terrorist institution that plans new massacres in Gaza

[ 10/02/2008 - 06:27 PM ]

GAZA, (PIC)-- The Hamas Movement has described, on Sunday, the Israeli occupation government as a "terrorist institution," asserting that the latest Israeli threats of assassinating Hamas leaders reflect the "terrorist mentality" of the Israeli occupation.

The Movement also charged, "The Israeli threats unveil a planned Israeli racial cleansing campaign to liquidate the Palestinian issue and to enhance the concept of the 'Jewish state' which was endorsed by the Annapolis and Paris conferences."

Fawzi Barhoum, the official spokesman of Hamas Movement in Gaza Strip, warned that the Israeli occupation government "poses a real threat not only to the Palestinian people but to the entire region in the shadow of the unlimited US political and military support".

Barhoum also accused the US administration of being "partner of the Israeli occupation in its war against the Palestinian people and their legal rights," explaining that the latest Israeli threats of killing Hamas leaders came after the series of visits made by the US officials to the region.

In this regard, Barhoum urged the international community to protect the Palestinian people against those US-Israeli schemes, saying that the passive stand on the part of the international community and the Arab and Muslim world towards those plans is no longer justified.

In a related matter, Israeli war minister Ehud Barak disclosed that his army was carrying out "secret" operations inside Gaza Strip without announcing them, in allusion to the assassination attempts that targeted a number of Hamas leaders and resistance fighters in Gaza Strip.

Barak uttered his remarks during a visit he paid in the company of his deputy Matan Velnai to the Israeli colony of Sderot where both of them were badly received by the Israeli settlers there.

After the Israeli settlers chanted slogans against him, Barak was forced to acknowledge that his army was carrying out "secret" revenge operations against Gaza Strip.

A couple of days ago, two Palestinian fighters from the Popular Resistance Committees survived an assassination attempt after they stepped out of their vehicle moments before a bomb planted in the vehicle exploded.

The PRC accused local agents working for Israel of planting the bomb.

The legitimate PA security forces in Gaza Strip foiled a number of bombing attempts at the hands of Fatah elements and former PA security forces with the aim to destabilize Gaza Strip.

But the most serious event was the attempt of a Fatah-affiliated group to assassinate PA premier Ismail Haneyya, which the PA security forces thwarted and arrested the supposed suicide bomber.


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