Yasin Aktay told Palestinian media that Turkey was expecting “a comprehensive agreement between Hamas and Israel“.
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In last year’s war between Israel and Hamas, commandos managed to reach Zikim beach just north of Gaza and fought Israeli troops in a gun battle.
Senior Hamas officials did not talk to Al-Quds for the article.
Hamas claims that the dolphin, captured in the Mediterranean off the coast of the Palestinian-occupied Gaza Strip, was equipped with “spying equipment”, including cameras.
“Israel would like to officially clarify that it is not holding any meetings with Hamas, neither directly, nor via other countries, nor via intermediaries”.
Cairo has accused Hamas, which runs the Gaza Strip and is near Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood, of serving to armed teams in Egypt’s Sinai desert, which borders Gaza, assault its safety forces.
Israel says its nine-year blockade on the impoverished territory is essential to prevent militants from obtaining materials to fortify military positions and build rockets they could fire at the Jewish state.
“Gaza is heading towards a comprehensive agreement on the issue of lifting the blockade and opening the [border] crossings in a long-term ceasefire deal with Israel”, Aktay said.
Earlier reports said that Hamas Shura Council, the decision making body of the Islamic movement, convened in Gaza to decide on the final draft of a long-term truce deal with Israel. “As for relations with Turkey, agreement is still far off”.
Israeli and Hamas are meeting “in an African country” to hold direct longterm ceasefire talks, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has claimed.
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The agreement, carried out unilaterally by Hamas without consulting the Palestinian Authority, strengthens the political divide with Fatah and will eventually detach Gaza completely from the West Bank and Jerusalem, he argued.
