A Hamas spokesman on Monday denied reports that differences between the Gaza-based leaders of the Islamic movement and their counterparts in West Bank have widened.
The reports said Hamas has "frozen" some of its leaders in the West Bank after they met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah movement, Hamas' bitter rival.
Hamas and Abbas' Fatah have been in official boycott since Hamas militants drove out pro-Abbas forces, ousted Fatah movement and seized control of Gaza Strip last year.
"There is no freezing against any Hamas member in the Gaza Strip, West Bank or abroad," said the spokesman Ismail Radwan. "The reports are completely untrue."
"Hamas is united and coherent... those rumors aim at targeting Hamas and its unity," the spokesman added.
West Bank-based Hamas leaders have often called for national reconciliation and, in several occasions, said they did not support the violent takeover of the Gaza Strip by Hamas fighters.
Hamas says it will not recognize Abbas as a president after January 2009 when his term ends. But legal experts vary on this point and argue that a resolution by the former parliament amended the president's term to end alongside the end of the current parliament, which Hamas holds, in 2010.
Source: Xinhua
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