Abbas denounces bombing ; Hamas sees it as legitimate
Haaretz
By Arnon Regular
The chairman of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, denounced yesterday's suicide attack in Tel Aviv. However, Hamas defended the attack as "a natural reaction."
Abbas, who is on a visit to Jordan, called the attack "an act of terror and a despicable act that is also beyond the national Palestinian consensus and causes damage to Palestinian national interests." Abbas called on the international community to intervene in the territories "to stop the dangerous deterioration in the situation."
But the spokesman of the Hamas government, Razi Hamad, said: "The Israeli occupation bears responsibility for the consequences of its policies. We have continuously repeated that the occupation is the reason for the cycle of violence. The killing, the assassinations and the bombings of Palestinian areas have resulted in the deaths of 20 Palestinians and the wounding of 85 in less than two weeks. The various groups have called for civilians not to be involved in the violence but the occupation is not bound by this."
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