In an interview printed in Egyptian paper Al-Hayyat on Thursday, senior Fatah terrorists said that Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas was serious in calling for new PA elections, and that Hamas would not be allowed to run in the elections.  Abbas intends to completely remove Hamas from PA politics unless Hamas backs down from its military conquest of Gaza, they said.

Abbas said Wednesday that he was canceling all previous agreements between Hamas and Fatah, including the “Cairo Accord” that brought Hamas into the PA.  Hamas fired back by calling Abbas’s PA “illegitimate” and denying Abbas’s authority to call new elections.