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| Hamas Delegation In Cairo Warned Of Protests |
| 2013-06-18 |
| [Jpost] Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,'s chief in exile Khaled Mashaal and leader of Hamas in Gazoo Ismail Haniyeh ...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... and a delegation of 24 Hamas officials were in Cairo on Monday and were warned by Egyptian security that there were protests planned against them, Paleostinian News Agency Ma'an reported, citing sources. According to the report, protesters asked Egyptian security to "send Hamas leaders out of Egypt" for the Islamist movement's "intervention in internal Egyptian affairs." The report cited former Egyptian Interior Minister Muhamad Wagdy who recently said that Hamas took part in prison riots during Egypt's revolution, remarks that led to widespread criticism against the movement. Egyptian security asked the Hamas delegation to change the hotel that it was staying in, in light of the intelligence it had about the protests, Ma'an reported. The sources told Ma'an that the change in hotel was necessary because Egyptian security did not "have the situation under control." |
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