Pictured Above: The flag of Hamas. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

(JNS) Hamas terror leader Yahya Sinwar said on Thursday that the Gaza-ruling group’s unity deal with Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party is collapsing.

“The reconciliation project is falling apart. Only a blind man can’t see that,” Sinwar told a pro-Hamas media outlet, Reuters reported.

Fatah and Hamas in October announced that they would form a unity government as well as transfer control of Gaza to the PA this month. But the Palestinian rivals have missed an initial Dec. 1 deadline and a Dec. 10 extension for the power transfer. Fatah has criticized Hamas for refusing to disarm its “military wing,” while the factions remain divided on salaries for the PA’s tens of thousands of Gaza-based employees.

“The reconciliation is collapsing because some people want to get from it the relinquishing of arms and the closing of [Hamas’s cross-border attack] tunnels,” Sinwar said, referencing Fatah. 

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