The Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas leveled yesterday severe criticism at the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and threatened to boycott the Palestinian dialog slated for November 10 in Cairo. Hamas Legislative Council member, Mushir el-Masry, said they would not go to the Palestinian dialog as long as there is a massacre against Hamas in the Western Bank, adding that his movement would say “the decisive word” regarding dialog over the few coming hours. While taking part in a pro-Hamas march yesterday, el-Masry said that any dialog is meaningless and that there would not be any talk about it at the time Abbas and his security bodies were slaying the Palestinian resistance and Hamas for the sake of Rice, Bush, Livni and Olmert. The march was attended by a thousand people who demanded the release of detainees in the West Bank. “We are here today to tell the agents, traitors and mercenaries in the West Bank who compete one another to pledge allegiance to the Zionist enemy that you must stop tampering with the Palestinian cause and the resistance and to say that those who betray their Palestinian nation will not continue and their life will not last” el-Masry continued. He called on the “Palestinian president to prove” at least once that he is the president of the Palestinian nation in his last days as president by putting an end to this massacre. The deposed Prime Minister Ismail Haneya emphasized there are “real obstructions” facing the upcoming Palestinian national dialog in Cairo, which will start in a few days. “What is going on in the Western Bank, such as the arrest of members of Hamas, is a real obstruction to dialog”, Haneya told reporters yesterday following Friday prayers in a mosque in Gaza. An Egyptian official at Rafah border crossing said Egypt had closed the crossing yesterday on Egypt-Gaza borders sine die. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the Egyptian authorities had not set yet a date to reopen the crossing but that it would be exceptionally opened for some humanitarian cases, such as ill people. Egyptian authorities have confiscated a ton of TNT in Sinai which officials say was planned to be smuggled into the Gaza Strip, a security source reported yesterday. It was found buried in a hidden place in central Sinai after the police had been informed by local residents.
