US 'fomenting discord in Palestine'

Press TV
Thursday June 21, 2007

The leading Lebanese cleric Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah has accused the US of fomenting discord and political crisis in Palestine.

He made the remark during his recent meeting with Osama Hamdan, a Hamas representative in Lebanon.

The senior Shia cleric urged a dialogue between Fatah and Hamas, calling on them to unite so that the plots hatched by the US and the Zionist Israeli regime would not destroy them.

He said that the US and 'other enemies of Islam' are seeking to deepen the divide between Palestinians.

Fierce fighting between rival political Palestinian groups, Hamas and Fatah, over the past few weeks has lad to a political turmoil in the occupied lands.

Over 110 Palestinians have been killed and more than 500 wounded in the bloodshed that erupted five months after the two sides agreed in Mecca to from a national unity government.