The Palestinian caretaker government on Monday welcomed an Egyptian proposal to dispatch Arab forces to the Gaza Strip which is controlled by Islamic Hamas movement.
"The Egyptian proposal is integral to (Palestinian) President Mahmoud Abbas' call to end the state of split that emerged after Hamas' coup," said Ashraf al-Ajrami, minister of prisoners affairs.
"If Hamas was interested to reunite the internal Palestinian position and end the split it has to accept this idea," al-Ajrami added.
He also said the deployment of Arab forces will help reestablishing the Palestinian security services on professional basis.
In an interview with local October magazine on Saturday, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit raised the idea of deployment of Arab troops in a bid to put an end to the situation in the Gaza Strip.
"Having Arab troops on the ground could help prevent fighting and confrontations between the Palestinian and Israeli sides," Abul Gheit was quoted as saying.
There is a need to probe "such attractive idea" which has not been put up for discussion yet, but it should be taken seriously, he stressed.
But Hamas has rejected the idea which was proposed by Egypt's Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit. A Hamas leader said Sunday that his movement refuses the deployment of any foreign troops in Gaza and resolving the crisis can be done through diplomatic ways.
Al-Ajrami said that Hamas rejection to the idea "proves that it has no decision to give up the authority it gained by force in Gaza."
Hamas routed pro-Abbas forces, ousted his Fatah movement and took over the Gaza Strip in June last year, saying the move was to prevent a plot by the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) forces against Hamas' rule which it acquired after winning parliamentary elections in 2006.
Source:Xinhua
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