By Xinhua
Ramallah : Palestinian government of premier Sallam Fayyad on Friday denounced against Hamas movement’s “abduction” of its adviser Omar Helmi al-Ghoul from his house in Gaza.
Riad al-Maliki, Minister of Information and spokesman of the government, voiced the condemnation in a press release.
The Hamas operation is part of its attempts to influence the government’s stances and policies regarding the Gaza Strip which the movement took over by force in mid June from the Fatah forces loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas, al-Maliki said in the press release.
He promised to hunt down by all means available the perpetrators who carried out the abduction, stressing that the government will not just stand by regarding these acts which have embroiled many of the political leadership.
Meanwhile, President Abbas also condemned the Hamas “kidnapping” from Jordan, where he was en route to an international donors’ conference in Paris on Monday.
Abbas denounced the Hamas operation as a “criminal and dangerous act adding to the long list of crimes committed daily by Hamas in the Gaza Strip”, according to his aide Yasser Abed Rabbo.
Earlier in the day, Hamas spokesman Ihab al-Ghssein announced that Ghoul, 56, was picked up from his Gaza City home after “a decision was taken to open an investigation.”
According to relatives of Ghoul, masked Hamas gunmen burst into his flat at around 1:30 am (1130 GMT Thursday) and kidnapped him who just returned home from Ramallah earlier in the day because his mother-in-law died.