HOLY LAND: SQUATTER PRIME MINISTER HANIYA CALLS ON PALESTINIANS TO PREVENT A CIVIL WAR

Haniya urges Palestinians to prevent all-out civil war
Agencies

Gaza City/Occupied Jerusalem: Palestinian Prime Minister Esmail Haniya of Hamas yesterday called on the Palestinians to work to prevent internal violence from exploding into an all-out civil war.

"We stress the necessity of sparing the Palestinian people any internal confrontations and to avoid using weapons as a medium for dialogue and to focus on dialogue only to solve our differences," he said before a Cabinet meeting.

"The differences exist, they are there, but this does not mean that they should be solved by gun fire."

Haniya's Islamic Hamas group, which controls the Cabinet and parliament, and the more moderate Fatah, headed by President Mahmoud Abbas, have been engaged in bloody street battles that have killed 35 Palestinians over the past month.

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