Islamic Jihad ruled out on Wednesday joining a new Palestinian government following Hamas's election victory or forging any long-term truce with Israel. "Islamic Jihad will not join the coming cabinet," Khaled al-Batsh, a leader of the militant group, told a news conference, voicing a position it had been widely expected to take. "If the government will have an agenda of resistance, we will support it," he said, referring to attacks on Israelis. Batsh said any long-term ceasefire with Israel would be useless and Islamic Jihad "rejects it completely".