GAZA, March 18 (UPI) -- A Palestinian group left out of Thursday's inter-Palestinian dialogue in Cairo rejected Friday the decision to extend a truce with Israel until the end of 2005.
The Popular Palestinian Resistance Committees, a group founded just four years ago, said it would observe the truce only until March 19, as originally agreed.
A group spokesman, Abu Abir, denounced what he called "the deliberate marginalization of the committees by the Palestinian Authority and Egypt" by depriving it of a role in the Cairo dialogue.
"We are surprised by such attitude ... Why did they listen to what we had to say before and they decided later to exclude us from the Palestinian decision-making?" Abu Abir asked.
He stressed that the group rejects the Palestinian decision to extend a truce with Israel beyond an earlier agreed deadline of March 19.
Abu Abir threatened that his group "will resume its military operations against Israel," which he accused of having breached the truce on several occasions.
