PRC refuses deployment of Arab forces in Gaza

Wednesday September 03, 2008 12:58 by Rami Almeghari - IMEMC & Agencies

The Popular Resistance Committees in Gaza (PRC) refused on Wednesday an Egyptian suggestion to deploy Arab forces in Gaza as 'contradicting with the higher national interests of the Palestinian people.'

Political leader of the PRC, Ayman Al-Shishniya, was quoted by media sources as saying "the idea to bring in Arab or foreign troops to Gaza is totally rejected by our faction, as it is in stark contradiction with the interests of our Palestinian people and their resistance."

Al-Shishniya added that "any troops that enter Gaza not for the sake of liberating the lands, will be dealt with as hostile forces and therefore won’t be welcomed with flowers." He further made clear that 'any Arab troops should head for the occupied East Jerusalem to liberate the Al-Aqsa Mosque, which has been under captivity for the past four decades."

He also slammed the Arab and Islamic nations for not taking part in fighting the Israeli occupation along with the Palestinian people."

Al-Shihniya also called for ending the ongoing internal divisions in Palestine, urging all parties concerned to avoid any external interventions in order to safeguard an independent national security establishment that serves the resistance and enhances the steadfastness of the Palestinian people.

The PRC's leader remarks came after Egypt's Foreign Minister, Ahmad Abuelgheit, hinted at the possibility to deploy Arab forces in Gaza to end current split between rival Palestinian factions, mainly Hamas and Fatah.

Currently, representatives of the various Gaza factions are holding talks with the Egyptian officials in Cairo, for the sake of national dialogue.

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