Hamas Spokesman: Reconciliation deal ensures security services not linked to occupation

Fawzi Barhoum, the spokesman for Hamas movement, said that any obstacles that would disrupt the reconciliation process have been raised and discussed at the dialogue table.

Barhoum said in a statement to PIC on Monday: “The security file was developed in the agreement of the 17th of March 2009, which was held in Cairo and it is one of the 5 files that will be discussed on the table”, pointing out that the file has been discussed in the presence of the Egyptian side.

Hamas spokesman noted that several solutions for this file have been developed to ensure that the legal security services to be formed will not be linked to the occupation and will be based on protecting the homeland and the citizens.

He noted that the two sides agreed on the formation of a security committee, from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, that includes Egyptian experts to work on the re-formulation of the security services, in light of the agreements.

The Al Quds Al Arabi newspaper reported that the Palestinian Authority required dissolving all arms of the armed resistance, especially the Ezz El Din al-Qassam Brigades the military wing of Hamas, in addition to all the security services in the Gaza Strip, which may cause the failure of the Palestinian reconciliation, if Fatah insists on its position, according to the paper.