GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- The head of Fatah in the Gaza Strip hit out at Israel's assassination policy on Monday, a week after factions in Gaza said a truce to halt recent violence would stop targeted killings by Israel.
Abdullah Abu Samhadanah told reporters the killings had "assassinated the possibility of reaching a political compromise, leaving no room for the two-state solution."
After Israel's assassination of the chief of the Popular Resistance Committees and a former prisoner, Gaza factions fired dozens of rockets into southern Israel, and four days of Israeli airstrikes killed 26 Palestinians in Gaza.
Last Tuesday an Egypt-brokered truce took hold, and Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said the deal would end targeted killings. Israeli officials denied they had agreed to stop "pre-emptive action" -- a reference to future strikes against Palestinian militants believed to be planning attacks.
Abdullah Abu Samhadanah claimed Israel had turned a deaf ear to international appeals against treatment of Palestinians. With peace talks stalled, and more facts on the ground, there is no choice left but the one-state solution, he added.
Israel is "killing any dream of establishing an independent Palestinian state," he told reporters.
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