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Hamas not laying down arms, says leader

Hamas' political leader Khaled Mashaal said on Wednesday the = Palestinian=20 militant group will not lay down its arms and renounce its fight against = Israel=20 until the Jewish state withdraws "from occupied Palestinian lands".

Mashaal told the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera TV station that Hamas' = decision in=20 March to agree to a cease fire period with Israel was part of "a = campaign of=20 tactics and manoeuvres in order to put the ball back in the Israeli and = American=20 court".

Hamas was one of the militant Palestinian factions that agreed to a = cease=20 fire with Israel, brought about during a meeting in March with = Palestinian=20 leader Mahmoud Abbas.

The truce depended on Israel also agreeing to stop all military = operations=20 against the Palestinians and to release Palestinian prisoners.

The Cairo deal followed a joint declaration by Abbas and Israeli = Prime=20 Minister Ariel Sharon to an end to more than four years of violence = during a=20 February 8 summit in Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt.

Mashaal, who is based in Damascus, Syria, said agreeing to the truce = did not=20 mean the group had given up its fight against Israel.

"Our position is clear. We are committed to resistance and will not = consent=20 to any dismantling of resistance groups and laying down arms before the=20 occupation leaves our land. This is a constant position on which we will = never=20 bargain," he said.

He said the decision to agree to a truce also stemmed from Hamas' = desire to=20 give the Palestinian people a rest from the violence of the uprising, = and to=20 also "expose Sharon's ruse aimed at sparking Palestinian infighting = through the=20 marketing of an illusion of peace after (Palestinian leader Yasser) = Arafat's=20 death" late last year.

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