Israeli officials express anger on Friday, a day after talks between Palestinian rivals, Fatah and Hamas, were held in an "excellent atmosphere”.

Israeli officials express anger on Friday, a day after talks between Palestinian rivals, Fatah and Hamas, were held in an "excellent atmosphere”. 

raeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's spokesman, Mark Regev, said the deal with Hamas was proof that the Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas was not interested in peace.
"Hamas is not a political movement that resorts to terrorism but a group whose whole vocation is terrorism," Regev told AFP.

"The closer President Abbas moves to Hamas, the further he moves away from peace."

For his part, Transport Minister Israel Katz, from Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party, said the Zionist entity should respond by unilaterally annexing settlements in the West Bank as it did Arab east Jerusalem and the Syrian Golan Heights.

"Israel must impose its sovereignty on all Jewish districts of Judaea and Samaria (the West Bank)," Katz told public radio.

"Israel must also make preparations to ensure the safety of its citizens in the face of this terrorist organization backed by Iran," he added.
"Finally, we need to take the necessary steps to ensure that the Jewish population (of the West Bank) has ready access to all corners of the state of Israel.

"This alarming rapprochement between Abu Mazen (Abbas) and Hamas is aimed at forming a government that one can only say is aimed at bringing about a genocide," he charged.
"Since the dark days of Nazism, no other movement has set as its aim the killing of Jews."

Palestinian factions met on Thursday in Cairo, where a committee was formed to prepare for the inclusion of Hamas, as well as the Islamic Jihad movement, in the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Abbas and Hamas Politburo Chief Khaled Mashaal attended the meeting.