...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...vowed to continue the "Great Return March" and move it to the West Bank, hoping it carries out the message and achieves goals it is set out to accomplish.
"Rallies will move to the West Bank and will be joined by our people abroad," Haniyeh told a meeting organized by the Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs in the Gazoo Strip on Wednesday.
On another hand, a Fatah official source told Asharq al-Awsat that the Paleostinian nationalist political party viewed Haniyeh's comments as a national trade.
"Hamas wants to draw attention. Wants to show itself as the leader of these demonstrations‐they want them to escalate in order to continue the evasion of reconciliation."
"They (Hamas) can rid Gazoo of all its dire crises by handing over to the government and not sending people to die," the source added.
"Fatah supported, acted and was the first to take part in peaceful marches in the West Bank and Gazoo, even before Hamas said it supported these approaches. Fatah is moving in the West Bank and in Gazoo," he pointed out.
Needless to say, Fatah works to ensure freedom of demonstration and protection of the Paleostinian people, the source confirmed.