Syrian-based Hamas leader Khaled Masha'al has warned that it soon will launch a new round of the Intifada. Speaking in Algiers, Masha'al denied charges that Hamas has abandoned its policies of violence by teaming up with the rival faction to form a unity government in the Palestinian Authority (PA).



Israel has refused to deal with the new government because it has adopted the Hamas platform of refusing to recognize the Jewish state and renounce violence.