Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Barhoum: Rice's visit to the region ominous


"GAZA, (PIC)-- The Hamas Movement on Tuesday said that the visit of American secretary of state Condoleezza Rice to the region was "ominous" and fell in line with American pressures on Arab parties so as not to respond to Gaza's calls for support.

Barhoum in a statement on Tuesday said that Rice's visit also aims at providing more support for Israeli occupation's massacres and siege on Gaza in addition to covering up for its crimes.

He stressed that her visit is unwelcome and added, "We do not have high hopes on the visit and we consider the American administration an accomplice in the occupation's crimes against our people and specifically in the latest massacres in the Gaza Strip".

The spokesman asked the Arab and Islamic masses to continue in their solidarity campaigns with the Palestinian people and to pressure their governments to end their "dreadful silence" and to adopt courageous steps in boycotting and exposing occupation.

The PA chief, Mahmoud Abbas, must reject all American pressures and adopt a stronger and firmer stand severing all negotiations with occupation, Barhoum said, adding that Abbas should also immediately halt all forms of security coordination with occupation and release all political prisoners from his jails."

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