(UPI) Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmad Yassin told Islam Online on May 7, "They're asking us to stop the resistance for a period of calm that may extend to a year or more. We consider that a surrender to the Zionist enemy....Any attempt to dismantle Hamas or any Palestinian militant group will be foiled....All America's conspiracies in Mitchell, Tenet, and the Roadmap will fall. (Islam Online) "All the statements made by Abu Mazen indicate he is not going to disarm any Palestinian group," Hamas spokesman Abdel Aziz Ranteessi said in Gaza. "He is unable to disarm us, and nobody will accept disarming any of the armed Palestinian groups."
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