GAZA, April 16 (Xinhuanet) -- A senior Islamic Jihad leader said Saturday that his movement doesn't intend to joint the executive committee of Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).

    Mohamed al Hindi told reporters in Gaza that his movement would refuse to join the PLO executive committee "as long as the PLO was not developed or reformed in accordance to the last Cairo dialogue meeting."

    Jihad leaders and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas recently held a series of meetings in Gaza to discuss the movement's possibility to join the PLO.

    The Jihad conditions their participation with reforming the organization.

    Al-Hindi, meanwhile, reiterated his movement's position that it will not participate in the Palestinian legislative elections scheduled to be held in Gaza and the West Bank on July 17.

    "We believe that these elections are linked to Oslo agreements and the roadmap plan, this is why we didn't want to participate," he said.

    The Islamic Jihad opposes Oslo agreements signed between Israel and the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) in 1993."As long as the Israeli occupation is still occupying our territories, the movement will never join the legislative elections that would take place under the authority of the occupation," vowed al Hindi. Enditem