Hamas leader in Gaza Strip, Ismail Haniya, said on Sunday that the sustainability of the Palestinian-Israeli calm, brokered by Egypt five months ago, depends mainly on Israel halting its "crimes" and lifting its blockade on the Gaza Strip.
Haniya's statement came during a funeral procession of a Palestinian fighters killed by the Israeli military earlier in the day. "The continuation of the truce deal depends mainly on the halt of the Zionist war machinery against our Palestinian people as well as lifting the repressive siege and reopening the crossings," Haniya said.
According to IMEMC, he added "Israel should interpret its verbal commitment to the ceasefire into actions on the ground, by simply stopping all forms of aggression against the Palestinian people." The former Palestinian PM conveyed " the truce was not agreed on from our part as a part of humiliation or weakness, but rather out of strength".
