Hamas welcomes Abbas response to Gaza invite

Prime Minister Ismail Haniya

GAZA CITY (Palestinian Territories): Hamas on Wednesday welcomed the positive response of Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas to an invitation to visit Gaza for talks to end the division, an official said, as reported by Gulf Today News on Wednesday.

“Hamas welcomes Abbas’s acceptance of the Haniya initiative,” senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri said, referring to an invitation extended by the Islamist movement’s Prime Minister Ismail Haniya during a live broadcast on Tuesday.

“We will start preparing for the visit,” he said.  (*)

 

PM Ismail Haniyeh : Israel fire divine strike from Allah

Gaza's Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh participates in a special prayer for rain in Gaza City, Sunday, Dec. 5, 2010. (Getty Images/ AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

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Gaza City, Dec 5 (KATAKAMI / NEWKERALA.COM) — The de-facto Palestinian Prime Minister in Gaza, Ismail Haniya said Sunday that the massive forest fire in northern Israel was a “strike from Allah”.

Commenting on the fire in Israel, which killed 41 Israelis and burnt more than 50 square km of forest, Hamas’ Haniya told reporters as he joined emergency prayers in Gaza City to ask for rain that “those fires are divine strikes for what they (Israel) did”.

He expressed hope rain would fall in the Palestinian territories struck by an unprecedented dry season.

Meanwhile a prominent Israeli spiritual leader and the guru of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, said in his weekly sermon late Saturday that according to the Talmud, fires erupt only in places where the Sabbath is desecrated.

He called the fire on Haifa’s Carmel Hill terrible, but argued it proved the need to return to Judaism and observe the Sabbath.

Shas is Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s third-largest coalition partner and while Yosef is not a cabinet member, Shas ministers usually consult with the rabbi before taking any major decisions.  (*)