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Palestinian resistance faction Hamas has dismissed reports that it had reached a preliminary agreement with Israel on a long-term truce in the Gaza Strip.
"Claims that Hamas has reached a preliminary agreement with Israel on the Gaza Strip are false," group spokesman Sami Abu Zurhi said in a brief statement.
"Any talk of a yearlong truce between Hamas and Israel are baseless," he added.
Several Palestinian websites "ed unnamed sources as saying that an agreement was in the pipeline between Hamas and Israel on a long-term truce in the Gaza Strip.
Hamas deputy leader Ismail Haniyeh said late last month that Hamas would not object to such a truce, provided it did not give Israel the chance to control the West Bank, which is already occupied by the self-proclaimed Jewish state.
The Gaza Strip continues to reel under an eight-year Israeli blockade, which has badly affected the livelihoods of most Gazans.
Israel waged a 51-day military onslaught on the blockaded strip last summer, which killed more than 2,160 Palestinians and injured nearly 11,000.
www.aa.com.tr/en - Gazze
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