Hamdan: Mubarak resignation will aid Palestinian cause

[ 12/02/2011 – 07:49 AM ]

 

DAMASCUS, (PIC)– Hamas foreign relations official Osama Hamdan said the resignation of once Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and relay of power to the military on Friday are not only a historic turnover in Egypt, but for the Palestinian cause as well.

But the sudden political shift has angered Fatah, a large recipient of support from Mubarak’s regime, despite the joy that prevailed in the Palestinian street that night.

”Any positive developments on the regional level will serve the Palestinian cause, and the opposite is true,” Hamdan told the PIC Friday night. ”We hope the situation in coming days will be better than now.”

Egypt, the first Arab state to sign peace accords with Israel in 1979, has played a key role in hampering Gaza’s economy through a blockade imposed on its northern border with the tiny enclave in cooperation with Israel.

”I believe the normal situation in Egypt should be on the side of the choices of the Palestinians, namely in resistance, liberation, and right of return,” Hamdan said.

Commenting on how the transition will reflect on the future of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, Hamdan said: ”Abbas and his team of negotiators with Israel must comprehend the lesson of the peoples’ will to achieve freedom and stop negotiations and undermining the national rights of the Palestinians and begging to meet with Netanyahu.”

Meanwhile, the announcement of Mubarak’s stepping down has angered the West Bank-ruling Fatah movement.

Our correspondent, citing officials inside Fatah, said the Mubarak resignation has renewed authorities’ concerns of a repeat in Ramallah.

PA security agencies had suppressed all activities staged in the West Bank to show solidarity with the Egyptians.

Palestinians in the West Bank began congratulating each other over the success of the Egyptian revolution via SMS in the same custom as during the holidays.

Hamdan: Mubarak resignation will aid Palestinian cause.

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