Hamas rejects Abbas call for election on January 24.Summary: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Mahmoud Abbas (Arabic: محمود عباس) (born March 26, 1935), also known by the kunya Abu Mazen called on Friday for presidential and parliamentary elections on Jan. 24. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called on Friday for presidential and parliamentary elections on Jan. 24. Hamas has immediately rejected the election call and suggested they could hold their own ballot in Gaza Strip Gaza Strip (gäz`ə), (2003 est. pop. 1,330,000) rectangular coastal area, c.140 sq mi (370 sq km), SW Asia, on the Mediterranean Sea adjoining Egypt and Israel, in what was formerly SW Palestine. . According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Reuters, a senior Palestinian official in Ramallah said Abbas had decided to call for the vote after the factions failed to reach a unity deal in over a year of Egyptian-brokered talks. "All concerned parties, the head and members of the election commission ... must execute the terms of this decree," a presidential statement said. In Gaza, a senior source in Hamas said his government was now studying the possibility of holding an election in the Strip separately, also on January 24, 2010, to counter what he termed Abbas' "unilateral unilateral /uni·lat·er·al/ (-lat´er-al) affecting only one side. u·ni·lat·er·al adj. On, having, or confined to only one side. " move. Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri Sami Abu Zuhri a senior Palestinian spokesman for Hamas was catapulted to notoriety 19 May 2006 when European monitors discovered he had about 900,000 euros concealed in his clothing at a routine border crossing from Egypt to Gaza. called the decision "a fatal blow to reconciliation efforts and a prolonging of divisions". "Abbas has succumbed to American pressures not to reconcile with Hamas unless we recognised the Quartet Quartet™ Respiratory care A system for diagnosing and managing obstructive sleep apnea Modes Continuous, bi-level pressure, automatic 'smart' CPAP modes. See Obstructive sleep apnea. conditions," Abu Zuhri said. Senior Hamas politician Mushir Al-Masri called Abbas' election decree "a lethal stab" at reconciliation. 2009 Al Bawaba (www.albawaba.com) 2009 Al Bawaba (Albawaba.com) Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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