Senior PA official: Hamas must ‘reconsider all its policies and methods’ after war

Senior Palestinian Authority official Hussein al-Sheikh appears to take a shot at Hamas for employing terrorism against Israel.

“It is not acceptable for some to believe that their method and approach in managing the conflict with Israel was the ideal and the best,” Sheikh tells Reuters. “After all this [killing] and after everything that’s happening, isn’t it worth making a serious, honest and responsible assessment to protect our people and our Palestinian cause?”

“Isn’t it worth discussing how to manage this conflict with the Israeli occupation?” he adds.

Sheikh also says Hamas must engage in a “serious and honest assessment and reconsider all its policies and all its methods” once the fighting ends, while calling for the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem to come under PA rule.

“There must be a single Palestinian government governing the Palestinian homeland,” he says.