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Special report: Internal situation in Palestine

    RAMALLAH, Oct. 7 (Xinhua) -- Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haneya's Friday speech at a rally in Gaza was dismissed on Saturday by some non-Hamas lawmakers as a "calling up speech" which failed to address people's suffering.

    Speaking to Voice of Palestine radio, lawmaker Hannan Ahsrawi called the speech "a popular, calling up speech away from real reading of the Palestinian people' suffering," adding that the speech addressed only Hamas supporters instead of the Palestinian people."

    On Friday, Haneya from the ruling Hamas movement delivered a four-hour long speech before tens of thousands of Hamas supporters in Gaza city.

    In his speech, Haneya reviewed what he called achievements of his government and its conduct under external pressure and boycott.

    Meanwhile, Kayed al-Ghoul of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) said Haneya was speaking as a leader of Hamas, not as a Prime Minister.

    However, al-Ghoul affirmed that there were some positive points in Haneya's speech and praised Haneya's commitment with the Prisoners' Document of National Accordance as a ground for the proposed government of national unity.

    In his speech, Haneya called on President Mahmoud Abbas to come back to Gaza Strip in order to resume talks on the national unity government. Abbas suspended the talks last month before heading to New York to attend UN General Assembly meetings.

    Last month, Abbas and Haneya reached an agreement to form a coalition government based on the Prisoners' Document of National Accordance, which calls for establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel.

    The move was seen as an effort to get the Palestinian territory out of an economic and political crisis triggered by the West and Israel's cutting off of direct aid due to Hamas' refusal to meet the conditions of recognizing Israel, renouncing violence and respecting previous agreements signed with Israel.

    However, the talks lapsed into a stalemate after Hamas refused to recognize Israel.

    Affirming the Hamas-led government would never recognize Israel,Haneya voiced rejection to "foreign intervention and orders on the Palestinians," saying there were Israeli and American pressures to prevent the formation of the national unity government. Enditem