PM Haneya warns of `Israeli` bid to divide Palestinians

Source: Xinhua, 26-6-2007
GAZA - Sacked Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haneya, also a Hamas leader, warned on Tuesday against the "Israeli" government`s attempts "to divide the unity of the Palestinians."
"The battle with ‘Israel' is still long and hard," Haneya told reporters in Gaza as he toured high schools in the city. His remarks came one day after a regional summit, which grouped leaders from "Israel", Jordan, Egypt and the Palestinians, was held in Egypt`s Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
At the summit, "Israeli" Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced several promises to bolster Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas after Abbas` Fatah militants suffered a fiasco and lost the Gaza Strip to its rival Hamas last week.
Among the "Israeli" promises, Olmert said he planned to release 250 Fatah prisoners held in "Israeli" jails.
On this, Haneya said the "`Israeli` occupation was not ready to give the rights back to the Palestinians."
As a result of last week`s infighting between Hamas and Fatah, the geographically-divided Palestinian territories has been politically split into two parts -- with Hamas controlling Gaza and Fatah holding the West Bank.