By Xinhua
Gaza : The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) on Saturday showed confessions by members of rival Fatah movement who spoke about a plan to assassinate deposed Hamas premier Ismail Haneya using suicide bombings.
“These confessions firmly prove that political and security persons support conspiracies from Ramallah and from outside Palestine,” former Hamas’ interior minister Said Siam said during a news conference held at his house in Gaza.
“Fatah has a black history against Hamas movement,” Siam added before he played the confessions of ten members of Fatah movement before local and Arab media.
According to the confessions, the cell received orders from Tayeb Abdel Rahim, the secretary-general of the Palestinian Presidency in Ramallah, and other Fatah leaders who fled outside the Palestinian territories in June when Hamas took over Gaza Strip.
A suicide bomber was supposed to blow himself up in a mosque near Haneya’s house in the beach refugee camp while two more suicide bombers attack mosques near the houses of Siam and another Hamas hard-liner Nezzar Rayyan.
In January, the suicide bomber who was supposed to target Haneya failed to go to the mosque and, instead, went to a celebration that Hamas was holding in a Gaza stadium where he was caught, according to the confessions.
Following the seizure of the assailant, Hamas published photos of 10 suspects and later arrested most of them.