By Xinhua,
Ramallah : Islamic Hamas movement on Wednesday welcomed the initiative from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for a comprehensive inter-Palestinian dialogue to end the status of split and disputes.
Hamas welcomes Abbas’ call for a comprehensive dialogue, senior Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar said, adding that it should be “without any preconditions.”
Taher al-Noono, spokesman of the deposed Hamas government in Gaza, told reporters that “the government welcomes the initiative and accepts it.”
“What is needed next is to have Arab nurture for a comprehensive dialogue and second is to stop all the media campaigns that deepen disputes between the two sides,” said al-Noono.
Abbas presented on Wednesday night an initiative to resume an inter-Palestinian dialogue among all Palestinian political factions and parties including Hamas.
Abbas initiative was presented in a televised address aired from his Ramallah headquarters on the Palestinian satellite television.
“Depending on our desire to keep the Palestinian territories united and responding to the calls to bring the situation back to before June 14, I call for launching a comprehensive national dialogue,” said Abbas.
“This dialogue should lead to implementing the Yemeni initiative, which was approved by the 20th Arab summit late March in Damascus to end the status of internal Palestinian division,” he added.
Islamic Hamas movement took control of Gaza Strip last June following weeks of bloody fighting with Abbas’ Fatah movement.
Since then, Hamas government, which was sacked by Abbas, controlled the Gaza Strip, while a Palestinian government appointed by Abbas and headed by Sallam Fayyad governed the West Bank.