Special report: Internal situation in Palestine

    GAZA, June 26 (Xinhua) -- Sacked Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haneya, also a Hamas leader, warned on Tuesday against the Israeli government's attempts "to divide the unity of the Palestinians."

    "The battle with Israel is still long and hard," Haneya told reporters in Gaza as he toured high schools in the city. His remarks came one day after a regional summit, which grouped leaders from Israel, Jordan, Egypt and the Palestinians, was held in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.

    At the summit, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced several promises to bolster Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas after Abbas' Fatah militants suffered a fiasco and lost the Gaza Strip to its rival Hamas last week.

    Among the Israeli promises, Olmert said he planned to release 250 Fatah prisoners held in Israeli jails.

    On this, Haneya said the "Israeli occupation was not ready to give the rights back to the Palestinians."

    As a result of last week's infighting between Hamas and Fatah, the geographically-divided Palestinian territories has been politically split into two parts -- with Hamas controlling Gaza and Fatah holding the West Bank.