Q: WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS AND IMMEDIATE PRIORITIES WITH ALL THE FINANCIAL AND SECURITY PRESSURES ON HAMAS?

A: The failure of this government means the destruction of the Palestinian Authority because the people will not accept an alternative government. People voted for this government because they are in urgent need of change and reform. Some people believe that they voted for Hamas as a punishment for Fatah. This is not true because there were alternative national wings, so the people voted for Hamas because they are looking for change.

The international - it is not international - the American pressure is not serving the interests of the Palestinian people, at the same time it is not serving the interests of the American existence in the area, whether official or non-official.

There is a lot of pressure, yes. On security Israel is escalating their aggression against the Palestinians. Today they arrested one of our ministers. Israel is attacking, killing destroying, even attacking the centre of Mr Abbas, our President.

America is hardening our lives, Israel is starving our people in order to push the Palestinian people to go away from this government. This will never happen.

Yes we are suffering too much economically now, the cause is not our policy because today we have been in [power] one week. Because of the previous administration, [the] previous policy concerning Europe and America and also because of the mistrust between the Palestinian people, the Palestinian side and the Arab donating countries.

The second point in this issue is the previous agreements between Palestine and Israel. The Paris agreement and Rafah agreement. The closure of Rafah agreement deprives our people of a great amount of money through visitors. Now it is not allowed for anybody to come and our goods. When they come through Israel they are paying money, taxes to the Israelis.

Now Israel has decided to deprive the Palestinian people of its right to this money, at the same time they are preventing the essential demands for building, for reconstruction, for eating, for even drugs and milk.

So to solve this problem we have to attack the two targets: to make sure that the Arab countries at the last Arab summit are committed to paying at least 55 million dollars each month and to rebuild the trust in the Palestinian Authority. That can be achieved by the visit, it is a big journey, that I am going to do inshallah on April 15, to Egypt, to Saudi Arabia, to Syria/Lebanon, the Gulf States, Oman and Yemen. This will be the first attack.

After that I am going to come back and after that I am going to go to Asia and north Africa and even Africa and even to South America and the countries [which] are ready to meet us like Russia, like others.

This campaign will be accompanied by a big campaign of other ministries, education health and others. Investment and industry. At the same time we are going to reconstruct our administrative levels concerning waste. We are going to make a lot of restrictions on illegal salaries and illegal jobs and the process of paying money for nothing. That was the main cause of our [staying] here and postponing our journey to the Arab and Islamic countries and others.

The second point: we are going to ask the Palestinians, the Arabs, the international community to help us to go around these agreements between Palestine and Israel which deprive the Palestinian people of free communication between at least the Gaza Strip and Egypt.

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