Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haneya of Hamas said on Wednesday that his government would make reshuffle among senior security chiefs. Haneya's remarks came in his first public appearance after he decided to join other Hamas leaders who went underground to evade Israeli threats to target them due to ongoing rocket attacks against the Jewish state by Hamas militants."We are to launch the security plan and will take decisions involving some security chiefs and commands in the coming hours," Haneya told reporters without elaborating. Haneya clarified that the Palestinian coalition government was supporting "a mutual and a coincident ceasefire with Israel to protect the Palestinian people's interests."
"The ball now is in the Israeli court," Haneya said after he met with the Egyptian security delegation in Gaza as political rivals of Hamas and Fatah headed Cairo to hold separate talks with the Egyptian side. Haneya said the talks in Egypt would focus on the internal situation, especially the relation between the two movements, and the ways to renew ceasefire with Israel.
Earlier on the day, Haneya met President Mahmoud Abbas behind closed doors.