Hamas confirms PA affiliates in Gaza executed for collaborationDate: 21 / 01 / 2009 Time: 13:21
Former Palestinian Authority figures “distributed candy celebrating the Gaza offensive,” Hamas claimed on Wednesday. According to Hamas leader in exile Mousa Abu Marzouq, PA sympathizers “sent kisses to Israeli warplanes” and “guided these planes to their targets.”For the first time since allegations were made weeks before, Abu Marzouq confirmed that Hamas did execute several collaborators during Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip. He threatened to bring others to justice, as well, particularly some he said “guided the Israelis” to the location of Hamas-affiliated de facto Interior Minister Sa’id Siyam, who was killed in an airstrike. “Our approach to the Egyptian Initiative [for ceasefire] was to take whatever benefits us and avoid anything that harms our interests,” the Abu Marzouq told Qatari newspaper Al-Sharq. He affirmed that Hamas’s attitude toward acting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has not changed, that is, that Abbas’s tenure has expired as president of the Palestinian Authority.Hamas did, however, neglect the issue during Israel’s assault on Gaza, Abu Marzouq noted. He said the Egyptians have joined Hamas in refusing the “Memorandum of Understanding” signed between American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, as it excludes Cairo. But he said he also suspects Egypt will go along with it, anyway. Abu Marzouq pointed out that the war on Gaza has changed some international attitudes, noting that European Union countries are calling for an end to the siege on Gaza, despite America’s refusal to cooperate with any Hamas-led government. The Hamas leader also hinted that the PA caretaker government’s prime minister, Salam Fayyad, would be the first “victim” of a future national agreement.'
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