Fatah official: Remove Hamas from terrorist list

Amal Hamad said Fatah supports national unity on the Palestinian street, but is concerned that Hamas will announce a "state of Gaza".
 
"Gaza is part of Palestine, and we will not allow anyone to separate it from the West Bank," Hamad said.
 
A leader in Hamas, Ismael al-Ashkar, said that most European countries were in direct contact with Hamas, but the issue needed time to be formalized.
 
"All the Europeans who visited the Gaza Strip said they had a mistake by putting Hamas on the world terrorism list," al-Ashkar said.
 
Akram Attallah, a political analyst, said it was too early to remove Hamas from the list as the international community had conditions that Hamas had not yet agreed to.
 
Attallah said Hamas needed a fundamental change in its political approach and ideology to get off the list.