By Xinhua
Gaza : The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) on Tuesday called on the Palestinian leadership not to accept a call made by visiting U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to resume Israeli-Palestinian negotiations in the shadow of the Israeli aggressions.
“We condemn the full American support of the Israeli aggressions and crimes and equaling between the victim and the attacker,” said Salah Zidan, a DFLP leader in Gaza Strip.
Rice arrived in West Bank city of Ramallah and started a meeting with Palestinian leaders and officials, including President Mahmoud Abbas who halted peace talks with Israel following an Israeli offensive which killed more than 120 Palestinians in Gaza in the past five days.
The Palestinian-Israeli negotiations were resumed during a U.S.-hosted peace conference in Annapolis last November.
Zidan said his faction rejected “Rice’s stance which deprives the Palestinian people from their right in protecting themselves in the face of the Israeli genocide.”
Observers believe that Rice’s visit was one of the reasons that encouraged Israel to withdraw forces from the northeast Gaza Strip early Monday. Israel said the attacks in the Hamas-ruled Gaza were meant to stop Palestinian rocket fire.