Abbas: 1 power, law, weapon essential for peace with Hamas

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said he will not accept Hamas Movement current stand and will not accept a partnership with the movement unless it accepts one power, one law and one weapon.
In his meeting with Egyptian media figures and intellectuals on Saturday in Cairo, Abbas pointed out that Hamas has a shadow government in Gaza Strip that consisted of 27 undersecretaries that rule the enclave,” adding that “a national reconciliation government will not be able to really rule the enclave.”
He said “there is a five-person Fatah delegation that is holding contacts with Hamas in order to agree on the place to convene in the coming period.”
He pointed out that the Palestinian leadership was doing its best to alleviate the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza and was working to provide all kinds of urgent aid to them.
In the meantime, he pointed out that during the Gaza crisis he urged Egypt to issue an initiative that helped in solving the crisis but the situation between Egypt and Hamas was complicated.
He said that he told Egypt's President Abdel Fattah El Sisi that he was the only one qualified - due to historical, geographical, national and security aspects – to float an initiative that included holding ceasefire to stop bloodshed in Gaza Strip, adding that Sisi responded to the plead and issued the initiative that also included applying 2012 agreement.
Meanwhile, Abbas reviewed the casualties that occurred in Gaza during the Israeli aggression until August 26 that left 2,149 killed; 942 children, women and elderly, 11,166 injured Palestinians that included 5,802 children, women and elderly.
He said that 18,000 houses were totally destroyed and 41,000 others were partly destroyed, and 461,643 Palestinians were displaced during the brutal Israeli aggression on Gaza.