Hamas 'not bound by ceasefire'
2005-02-08 16:32
Beirut - The Palestinian militant group Hamas said on Tuesday it will not be bound by Israeli-Palestinian cease-fire declarations made at the Sharm el-Sheik summit, the group's representative in Lebanon said.
The comments by Osama Hamdan came shortly after Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon declared at the summit an end to all military and violent operations.
"The talk about what the leader of the Palestinian Authority called a cessation of acts of violence is not binding on the resistance.
"This is a unilateral stand and was not the result of the outcome of an intra-Palestinian dialogue as had been agreed previously," Hamdan told The Associated Press.
Earlier, Sharon said Israel would release hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.
"Israel is going to release hundreds of Palestinian prisoners," Sharon said.
Israel has already announced it planned to free about 900 Palestinians.
- AP