Hamas is thinking about give up the control of Gaza.
Hamas said that it was ready to attend reconciliation
talks with Fatah and hinted that it might give up
control of the Gaza Strip it seized in June saying in a pro-Hamas website, ``administration in Gaza is temporary``. Hania, the former prime minister in the national unity
government, expected the talks to hold after Eid-ul-Fitr on Friday or Saturday although to Fatah it was not a ``real offer``.
In an urgent bulletin posted on a pro-Hamas website on Wednesday, Ismail Haniya made the peace overture, which Fatah denied pointing it as not a ``real offer``. Haniya said, ``There is a serious movement in the realm of Palestinian dialogue and we have agreed to hold a dialogue with Fatah in one of the Arab capitals`` He said talks with Fatah would be held after Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim festival that ends the fasting month of Ramadan and falls on Friday or Saturday. Haniya`s decision reflects a majority of Palestinians who want reconciliation.
But according to Hazen Abu-Shanab, a Fatah spokesman, ``no concrete, no real offer from Hamas``; and that it was ``nothing really new``. ``It`s not enough to have good words over the media from Hamas, we want action on the ground,`` he said. ``We want Hamas to admit that it made a very big sin by making this coup.``
Earlier, Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, fired the government after Hamas forcibly took control of Gaza. Abbas, who will attend a US-sponsored conference on Palestinian statehood next month, has ruled out re-engagement with Hamas unless it submits to his authority and ends its control of Gaza. Gaza has been even more isolated from the rest of the world since Hamas took power after a violent confrontation with Fatah.
Last month, Hamas called for a ceasefire with Israel, in what observers saw as a possible indication of the growing pressure the group faced after months of isolation in Gaza. In mid-September, the Israeli government declared Gaza a ``hostile territory`` in an effort to increase pressure on Hamas to stop rockets being fired from there. The classification set the stage for a possible choking off of essential services such as electricity to the territory of 1.4 million people, but so far it has not been carried out.
-MIR RAKIB-UN-NABY