We hope this (document) will mark a change in the stance of European states towards us," Meshaal told reporters. Fatah spokesman Osama al-Qawasme upbraided Hamas for taking decades to join Fatah in accepting a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders, a position Hamas used to criticize Fatah for. There was no immediate comment on Monday from Egypt and Gulf Arab states to the Hamas document. Meshaal said Hamas remained part of the Muslim Brotherhood's "intellectual school" but was "an independent Palestinian organization". US-allied Arab states including Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia classify the Brotherhood as a terrorist organization.

Source: bd News24 May 01, 2017 20:48 UTC