RAMALLAH, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party slammed on Monday the Islamic Hamas movement over advancing a brokered truce with Israel.
Fatah spokesman Osama Qawasmi said in a press statement that the truce between Hamas and Israel comes with a political price, describing Hamas' claims as "nonsense, lies and disinformation that cannot fool anyone."
"The price will be allowing the passage of the American-Zionist Deal of the Century, bashing the Palestine Liberation Organization, turning the division into separation, implementing Israeli schemes aimed at having total hold over Jerusalem and the West Bank, and blocking the possibility of an Israeli withdrawal from the land of the State of Palestine," he stressed.
At the same time, Qawasmi warned that this truce deal would be "a real threat to the Palestinian national identity."
Egypt and the UN are mediating a long-term cease-fire agreement between Hamas and Israel.
Last week, three delegations representing Hamas, the left-wing Palestinian parties and senior employees in various ministries in the Gaza Strip headed to Cairo to resume talks, reportedly focusing on the cease-fire deal and the resumption of the national reconciliation deal.
Gaza Strip has been placed under a tight Israeli blockade since Hamas seized the territory after routing forces loyal to President Abbas in 2007.
The blockade has pushed Gaza's 2 million people deeper into poverty with unprecedented unemployment rate.
In the recent nine years, Israel and Hamas movement have been engaged in three major wars that claimed lives of thousands of Palestinians and Israelis.
