Yassin: Time inappropriate for hudna

Yassin: Time inappropriate for hudna
Nov 27, 2003, 08:49


Gaza - Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, founder and spiritual leader of the Islamic
Resistance Movement, Hamas, has asserted that hudna with the Zionist enemy
at present was inappropriate unless occupation forces withdrew from
Palestinian lands.

A German paper quoted the Sheikh as saying that there was no chance for
reaching a hudna unless "Israel" withdrew from the occupied Palestinian
territories.

Yassin, in an interview with 'De Velt' published on Tuesday, said that as
long as the Zionist entity continued to target Palestinian civilians then
Zionist civilians would remain victims of similar reciprocal attacks.

The Hamas leader said that he expected a new wave of violence and that there
would be little likelihood for a hudna.

Yassin earlier this month said that Hamas was ready for talks with
Palestinian Authority premier Ahmed Qrei to discuss a hudna but noted that
such a possibility was very meager.

The Palestinian factions are slated to meet in Cairo on 2nd December to
discuss a new hudna with the Hebrew state. Zionist officials said that they
might stop targeting Palestinian activists in the event Palestinian armed
attacks came to a halt.

Commenting on such remarks, Sheikh Yassin said that as long as Zionist
soldiers remained in "our neighborhoods" and as long as assassinations
continued then there could be no talks on calming things down.

Last August an earlier hudna declared by Hamas and other factions came to an
end after almost two months when Zionist forces assassinated one of the
Hamas leaders two days after a bus explosion in occupied Jerusalem that left
23 Zionist settlers killed.

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