DAMASCUS, (PIC)– Hamas movement described on Saturday the PLO executive committee’s decision to return to negotiations with the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) as a “political sin”.
The movement said in a statement that the PLO decision does not represent a Palestinian unanimity.
It added that the PLO had bowed to Zio-American pressures and given up Palestinian national rights and interests.
Hamas said that the decision is not binding to the Palestinian people, noting that it coincided with the IOA decision to cancel previous intention to demolish “random settlement outposts” in the West Bank and to turn them into “legal” outposts.
Islamic Jihad movement, for its part, lashed out at the PLO’s decision, describing pretexts voiced by the PLO in this respect as “sheer deception”.
The movement called for restructuring the PLO, adding that until then it does not enjoy representation of the Palestinian people.
The PLO’s executive committee decided, in its meeting on Saturday, to return to indirect negotiations with the IOA after receiving a green light from the Arab follow up committee.
Yasser Abed Rabo, the executive committee’s secretary, told a press conference after the meeting in Ramallah that the decision was taken with the majority of votes, adding that it was based on the American guarantees.