Prime Minister of the Hamas government in Gaza on Wednesday warned against holding Palestinian elections, said the West Bank and Gaza Strip, would be "a national crime".Hamas and the West Fatah party of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, struggled for months to achieve national unity agreement to pave the way for presidential and parliamentary elections next year.
Nevertheless, several rounds of talks in Egypt since the beginning of the year sponsored little evidence of progress has been made against the vote.
"If the elections in Ramallah in the West Bank and Gaza Strip do not have the space for political and national crime," Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh told reporters in Gaza that are on Abbas' West Bank government. "I hope no one would choose this kind, which have significant implications for Palestinian unity and the internal divisions will be considered.
He added that "elections are part of the national agreement, not the outside", and refers to a future pact, which binds to the two main Palestinian movements.
The ongoing conflict between the secular Fatah and Islamist Hamas in June 2007 peak, when confined to the seizure of Hamas in Gaza in a bloody week of fighting with Abbas' government in the occupied West Bank.
Both sides said they hoped to meet again in Egypt, later this month, but several previous rounds of talks had been postponed.
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