The Palestinian leadership must set a shared vision for the current “intifada,” says Hamas’s political bureau chief Khaled Mashaal, in reference to the near-daily stabbing attacks against Israeli civilians and security forces since October 1 in Israel and across the West Bank.
Mashaal says the Palestinians must “formulate a national strategy; there must be coordination between resistance operations on the ground and [the Palestinian Authority’s] political processes.”
“The Palestinians must decide on a shared vision for this intifada,” he adds, according to Ynet, while criticizing the Palestinian Authority for not doing enough to counter Israel’s “settlements policy and settlers’ war crimes.”
“The crises in the Gaza Strip [following last summer’s war] must be solved — the end of the blockade, the establishment of a seaport and an airport, and so on. [Former Quartet envoy] Tony Blair and [UN Special Coordinator] Nickolay Mladenov suggested we come to London and Geneva [for talks] but first we must solve these issues,” he is quoted as saying.
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