RAMALLAH, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- The Palestinian government warned on Wednesday that any deal to reach a truce between Islamic Hamas movement and Israel in Gaza Strip would anchor the 12-year-long internal division.
Spokesperson of the government Yousef Al-Mahmoud said in a press statement that "any unilateral action or moves to be taken under the current division will surely lead to more rifts and help realize the schemes of the occupation aiming to further divide the Palestinian geography and the looting of Jerusalem city and the Islamic and Christian holy places."
He urged Hamas to work towards reaching national reconciliation and to "enable the government fully in accordance with the agreement reached with Fatah party and other factions brokered by Egypt."
He warned that the continuation of the division would continue to "bring more disasters to the Palestinian people everywhere, particularly in Gaza Strip, as would open the doors for the occupation and supporters to attempt to implement the anti-Palestinian schemes that would destroy the national Palestinian dream."
Israeli Minister of Transport Israel Katz said that Gaza will be isolated from the West Bank and "the truce deal will lead to isolate Gaza completely."
Al-Mahmoud said such statements resemble what the Israeli government dreams of, in terms of destroying any change for a geographically continuous entity to be the Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, and replace the Palestinian dream of independence with a state of separated cantons.
He concluded the statement saying that "the only way to get out of this dark tunnel and avoid the consequences of the looming evils is the immediate declaration of working towards reconciliation, ending the division and inviting the government to undertake all its responsibilities in Gaza."
Hamas officials have recently declared that the movement is currently looking into suggestions for a truce deal with Israel mediated by the UN and Egypt.
More than one agreement on national reconciliation was reached under Saudi, Qatari and Egyptian sponsorship, but none of them reached a tangible breakthrough to end the division that has begun since the violent Hamas seized power in the coastal enclave in 2007.
