Hamas and the Islamic Jihad are furious at Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas for urging an Arab intervention in the Gaza Strip akin to the Saudi-led assault on Yemen, the Anadolu press agency reports.
The two movements organized a march on Sunday night that kicked off in the Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza to denounce Abbas’s remarks, according to the agency.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas attends the Arab League summit in Egypt’s Red Sea resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh, on March 28, 2015. (photo credit: AFP/STR)
Abbas’s comments came on the last day of the Arab League summit, which concluded in Egypt’s resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh on Sunday. Abbas warned of attempts to establish a separate state in the Gaza Strip through a long-term truce between Hamas and Israel, the agency reports.
During the Sunday march, Hamas official Mushir al-Masri said that Gazans “won’t have mercy on anyone that attacks Gaza.
“We won’t be merciful to Abbas, just like we weren’t merciful to Netanyahu,” he added, referring to the summer war between Hamas and Israel.
“Abbas had previously described Gaza as a rebellious region and seeks to pit the world against his own people, not to mention that he works with the Israelis against his Palestinians,” al-Masri said. He urged members of Fatah to repudiate the remarks by Abbas.
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