"Hamas will continue to fight if Israel decides on the unilateral cease-fire in Gaza, said Saturday in Beirut, the representative of the Islamic movement in Lebanon, Osama Hamdan.
Israel plans on Saturday to consider the question of a unilateral ceasefire in December 27, they launched the war in the Gaza Strip. In the three weeks of fighting in the densely populated enclave has already killed at least 1.2 thousand people, and about 5.3 thousand were wounded.
"A unilateral cease-fire does not provide for the withdrawal of Israeli troops," - said Hamdan, stressing that "the confrontation will continue" until Israel is not going to fulfill the requirement Islamists.
According to Hamdan, the Israeli initiative is nothing more than "an attempt to derail the Egyptian plan to achieve a bilateral truce." The talks between Egyptian mediators and representatives of Hamas resumed in Cairo on Friday.
"Unacceptable" conditions called Israeli cease-fire and the movement leader, Khaled Mashaal, speaking at the Arab summit meeting in the Qatari capital of Doha.
Hamas insists on the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza in the week, the opening of all checkpoints on the borders of the enclave from Egypt and Israel and a lifting of the blockade.
In turn, the Israeli conditions for a cease-fire meant that the Israeli troops remain in the Gaza Strip for an indefinite period.
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