PM Netanyahu Responds to Meeting between PA Chairman Abu Mazen and the Head
of Hamas, Khaled Mashaal
(Communicated by the Prime Minister's Media Adviser)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, today (Thursday, 10 January 2013),
responded to the meeting between Palestinian Authority Chairman Abu Mazen
and the head of Hamas, Khaled Mashaal:

"Abu Mazen embraces the head of a terrorist organization that declared only
last month that Israel must be wiped off the map. This is not how someone
who wants peace behaves."