Abu Marzouk: The reconciliation should not join Gaza with the occupied W. Bank

Senior Hamas official Mousa Abu Marzouk expressed his rejection of the idea of forming a new Palestinian government on the basis of conjoining the Gaza Strip with the occupied West Bank under the current Palestinian authority.

Abu Marzouk stated in press remarks to the Palestinian newspaper Al-Quds that the inter-Palestinian reconciliation does not mean that Gaza should immediately be joined with the West Bank under a new government.

“The reconciliation are established [first] through reaching a consensus on a national unity government of independent technocrats,” the Hamas official underlined.

He also stressed that the reconciliation means that the carders of the security apparatuses in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank as well as the civil servants should keep their current jobs, pointing to the importance of solving the issue of all government employees who were arbitrarily axed from their jobs because of their political affiliations.

Abu Marzouk also emphasized the need for specifying national security policies and restructuring of the Palestinian security apparatuses with Arab help, in addition to allowing the Palestinian legislative council (PLC) to resume its duties under full jurisdiction.