GAZA, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- A senior Islamic Hamas movement leader Thursday denied an earlier Israeli report saying that Hamas has plans to take control of the West Bank and rout President Mahmoud Abbas security forces.

    "Such reports are untrue, inaccurate and aims at spreading rumors to tumble the Palestinian dialogue. Our guns will be only and always aimed at the Israeli occupation," Ismail Radwan said ina statement.

    The Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronot had earlier quoted Israeli security sources as saying that Israel had received "hot warnings" that Hamas and its armed wing are planning to kill and kidnap senior Palestinian National Authority officials.

    The report said that Hamas armed wing would also kidnap and kill Fatah movement leaders and militants in the West Bank, in case the issue of extending the presidential term of Abbas on January fails.

    Hamas movement insists that the term of President Abbas ends on Jan. 9 according to the Palestinian constitution. While rival Fatah says presidential elections would be held on January 2010.

    The daily referred to the last security campaign carried out by Abbas security forces in the West Bank, in which it discovered stores of weapons belong to Hamas movement's armed wing.

    Fatah movement's spokesman in the West Bank Fahmi Za'arir said in a statement "if Hamas has reached a truce with Israel, what will be the need for storing all these weapons."

    He added that storing weapons by Hamas in the West Bank, and the threats of its leaders that the West Bank would fall sooner or later "gave evidence that Hamas has plans in advance to take control of the Palestinian National Authority."

    Egypt is mediating an inter-Palestinian dialogue, which is expected to be launched on early November amid disputes between the two rival movements on the details of the issues that would be under negotiations.