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GAZA, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- A Hamas official ruled out any possible truce with Israel as long as occupation persisted and Palestinian prisoners were not released.
"Israel should pay a price for the truce ... There is no point of talking about any truce as long as the occupation and assassinations continue and as long as more than 9,000 prisoners remain in Israeli jails," Sheik Hassan Youssef said in an interview Friday with the Saudi daily al-Hayat.
"Let no one dream ... Neither Israel, nor the Palestinian Authority or Europe and America, that things will calm down as long as one prisoner remains in an Israeli jail," he said.
Hamas militants are responsible for most suicide bombing attacks against Israeli targets and have been firing rockets at Jewish settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Commenting on remarks by PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas about the futility of firing rockets at Israel, Youssef asked, "Can they otherwise provide guarantees to stop the Israeli aggression on the Palestinian people?"
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