Prime Minister Haniya: truce sustainability depends on halt of Israeli crimes and siege
Source: IMEMC
Sunday November 16, 2008 17:53

Palestinian Prime Minister of the ruling Hamas party in Gaza, Ismail Haniya, said on Sunday that the sustainability of the Palestinian-Israeli ceasefire, Egypt brokered five months ago, depends mainly on Israel halting its crimes and lifting its blockade on the Gaza Strip.

Haniya's statement came during a funeral procession of a Palestinian fighters killed by the Israeli military earlier in the day.

" The continuation of the truce deal depends mainly on the halt of the Zionist war machinery against our Palestinian people as well as lifting the repressive siege and reopening the crossings", Haniya spoke to crowds in Gaza city.

The PM went onto saying " Israel should interpret its verbal commitment to the ceasefire into actions on the ground, by simply stopping all forms of aggression against the Palestinian people".

The Hamas leader also added " the truce was not agreed on from our part as a part of humiliation or weakness, but rather out of strength".

Haniya stressed that the Palestinian people's will can not be twisted or broken and that they are keeping up in their drive towards attaining their national legitimate rights and ending the occupation.

Today's remarks came in the backdrop of heightened tension on the ground in Gaza, following a series of Israeli deadly attacks and counter Palestinian fire. Such developments would threaten an Egyptian-mediated truce deal.
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