The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)yesterday slammed the UN Middle
East envoy for supporting President Mahmoud Abbas' idea about a referendum on a
plan which includes implicit recognition of Israel.
Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said that Alvaro de Soto's remarks showed that
the United Nations was implicated in a siege against the Palestinians by
exceeding all laws and international accords which criminate occupation and give
occupied nations right of self-defense.
Abu Zuhri said that the Palestinians are forced to bow to pressure and give
legitimacy to an Israeli occupation.
Earlier, the UN envoy welcomed Abbas' idea about referendum on the National
Accordance signed by leaders of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.
Hamas opposes the document because it aims to settle the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict by establishing a Palestinian statehood within the 1967 borders. Hamas
claims that the 1967-state solution must be interim.
