Abbas: Hamas forces are illegal.

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The president of Palestinian authority Mahmoud Abbas is still marginalizing the Islamic movement “Hamas”, while this latter won in last elections on January. Unfortunately crisis emerged in Palestinian society, and conflicts started soon between Fatah and Hamas, after Abbas called for early elections. Violent gunbattles took place in Gaza strip, a matter that made the situation easier for Abbas to reject the extremist party.

 

On Saturday, Abbas declared auxiliary forces controlled by Hamas were illegal and outlawed; this comes in a context of a so called “reconciliation” Mahmoud Ababs is aiming to. And in order to resolve the local Palestinian chaos, Palestinian president said he would deal with Hamas forces until it will be a part of official security department. Auxiliary forces are controlled by interior minister said Siam and are established in Gaza since early 2006.

 When auxiliary forces were created, interior minister said, they will maintain peace and help the police to impose order, but Abbas wants to get rid of them. Meanwhile Islam Shahwan a spokesman for auxiliary forces strongly rejected the decision. Shahwan said: Abbad approved the forces in the past so why this radical change now? He added auxiliary forces are part of government and of interior minister so Abbas has no right to reject them.

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