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Hamas rejects truce

Gaza City May 7. The spiritual leader of Hamas warned Israel that his radical Palestinian Islamic movement would keep up its attacks against the Jewish state until the ``final battle'', in an interview with AFP.

Sheikh Ahmed Yassin also accused the Palestinian Prime Minister, Mahmoud Abbas, who has pledged to disarm militant groups, of pursuing a ``policy of surrender'' toward Israel. But he gave an assurance that Hamas would ``do its best'' to avoid a confrontation with the new Palestinian government.

Sheikh Yassin was interviewed at his home in the El-Sabra district of central Gaza City yesterday as Israelis started to celebrate the 55th anniversary of the foundation of their state, an event known to the Palestinians as the ``nakba'' (catastrophe). ``They are now celebrating their victory against a persecuted nation,'' said Sheikh Yassin.

— AFP

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