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<td><span class="PublishedDate">[ 					09/02/2011 &#8211; 04:47 PM ] </span></td>
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<p style="font-size:10pt;">RAMALLAH, (PIC)&#8211; The Hamas Movement  on Wednesday held de facto president Mahmoud Abbas and Fatah faction  fully responsible for the serious repercussions of holding unilateral  elections in the West Bank on the unity of the Palestinian people and  the future of their national cause.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Hamas said this decision would only serve  Israel&#8217;s wish to deepen the estrangement between Gaza and the West Bank  and undermine the Palestinian internal front.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">&#8220;The attempt to hold these elections  without national consensus and under the policy of terror and alienation  that is pursued by Abbas-Fayyad illegitimate government against the  resistance and its supporters confirms they will be devoid of legitimacy  and credibility before they start, and the Palestinian people are not  bound by them,&#8221; a press release by Hamas read.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">For their part, Hamas lawmakers in the  West Bank denounced the decision taken by the Palestinian authority to  hold local and municipal elections in the presence of the internal  division and an atmosphere of suppression in the occupied territories.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">They said in a statement that those who  took the decision to hold elections in the West Bank have to recognize  first the results of the 2006 elections and stop burying their heads in  the sand in an attempt to escape the changes taking place in the region.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7VN3eMMW5BBjFIxZSKJqwWVLXSOUcHwKTy1eJV6V4rSOQtKOxtb7KzdVAEDPymB5Qjy1CIkKWTg779qg90anqdasITGmYhRFR0ynSzjlkkm4%3d">Hamas holds Abbas, Fatah responsible for ramifications of its election decision</a>.</p>
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