Gaza: A top Islamic Hamas movement leader has announced that Hamas is willing to resolve and overcome recent disputes with Egypt.
Esmail Haniya, deputy chief of Hamas, on Wednesday said in a printed emailed statement that his movement “is ready for any proposals that would remove obstacles between the Palestinian and the Egyptian brothers,” Xinhua reported.
Haniya said that he spoke on the phone with Mohammad Subaih, the deputy chief of the Arab League in Cairo and reiterated the strategy for ties with Egypt.
“Neither Hamas nor our people intervene into the internal affairs of Egypt or any other Arab country, where the national security of Egypt is a priority like the national security of Palestine,” said Haniya.
He valued Subaih’s statements in which he said that the Palestinian resistance movements “are national liberation movements and not terrorist groups and that Hamas is one of those movements.”
On Saturday, a court in Cairo labelled Hamas a terrorist group, just a month after the same court considered the group’s armed wing, the Al Qassam Brigades, a terrorist organisation.
The Egyptian media has accused Hamas of aiding terrorist groups who carried out deadly attacks against the Egyptian army in the Sinai Peninsula.
Ties between Hamas and Egypt have been tense following the overthrow of Islamist President Mohammad Mursi in 2013, the outlawing of the Muslim Brotherhood movement and the group being labelled a terrorist organisation.
