Hamas Interior Minister Fatchi Hamad on Tuesday called on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to �finish the world begun by his predecessor�.
Hamad, whose predecessor was eliminated in Operation Cast Lead, stated Hamas has come a long way in the talks towards a prisoner release deal and the current deadlock is due to Israel�s failure to move forward.
The Hamas official made his remarks during a welcoming ceremony for released terrorist Muhmad Azzam, who served 12 years in an Israeli prison. In his remarks, Hamad said the Olmert administration failed in its mission and the �New Zionist government� must complete the Shalit deal�.
(Yechiel Spira � YWN Israel)
