Special report: Mideast peace conference    

    GAZA, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) -- Hamas on Saturday said the U.S. withdrawal of a draft resolution it presented to the UN Security Council concerning the relaunch of the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks was an indication of its unseriousness in the matter.

    "The U.S. is unserious... it absolutely supports the Israeli occupation in a way that makes the counting on the biased and unfair U.S. stance strange," Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri told reporters in Gaza.

    On Friday, the United States withdrawn a draft resolution it presented to the UN Security Council endorsing the results of recently-held Annapolis conference which set Dec. 12 as the date to resume Israeli-Palestinian talks on creating a Palestinian statehood.

    Some local reports said that the withdrawal decision was to satisfy Israel which rejects a UN role in the Middle East peace negotiations.

    "The American response to the Israeli occupation and the withdrawing of the draft resolution are a new proof that Annapolis meeting is failing and the U.S. administration was unserious," AbuZuhri said.

    "The Israeli military escalation against the Palestinian people is the only fruit that came from Annapolis meeting," Abu Zuhri said, vowing that his organization will "continue its project of resistance against Israel."

    Early on Saturday morning, Israeli missiles killed five fighters from the Islamic Hamas movement which rules the Gaza Strip, in Khan Younis city in the north of the strip.