Haniyeh in Negotiations to Bring an End to Home-made Shell Fire

20 September 2007

by John Smith

Ismail Haniyeh, the deposed Palestinian Prime Minister, on Thursday met with the leaders of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in a bid to a bring an end to the firing of home-made shells from the Gaza Strip.

Haniyeh had previously met with the leaders of Islamic Jihad on Wednesday in the hope of securing a guarantee that the group would refrain from firing shells.

Despite the efforts of the deposed Prime Minister, the armed wing of the organisation, the al-Quds Brigades, vowed to continue their operations.

“Rockets are an affirmation of our option of continuing holy war and resistance against the occupation […] resistance will only stop if the occupation ends,” an Islamic Jihad spokesperson stated Thursday.

The series of meetings came hours after the Israeli government branded the coastal region a “hostile entity,” and threatened that it would soon begin to starve the Strip of much-needed fuel and electricity supplies.