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The minister invited Palestinian investors to avail the vast scope of investment opportunities in the green and brown fields of Pakistan in all sectors to transform the existing brotherly relations between the two countries in business relations on both sides to promote the economic interaction. While lauding the consistent and continuous support of the government and the people of Pakistan for the Palestinian cause, the Palestinian envoy to Pakistan, Hazem Hussain [Abu Shanab] said that in 1988 Pakistan was among the pioneer countries to recognize the independence of Palestine.

Journalist Amira Hass's observations about Hamas, followed by her interviews with two of its leaders, appeared in Ha'Aretz on 20 June 2003. Noteworthy is a shift toward greater pragmatism in the latter part of the Rantisi interview, including explicit support for an independent Palestinian state in the event of total Israeli withdrawal from the occupied territories. The interviews were conducted about a week after the IDF's unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Rantisi on 10 June. Israel assassinated Abu Shanab two months later, on 21 August 2003.

Abd Al-Aziz Rantisi, Sheih Ahmed Yassin, Ismail Abu Shanab and Mahmoud Al-Zahar are interviewed about the US role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, conditions under which Hamas will freeze its armed struggle, a proposed two-state solution to the problem and the relationship between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority.

[Carol Gould] said, as a US citizen, she did not understand the importance of [Barack Obama]'s visit to Israel. She said in her view Obama did not visit or respond to invitations to visit Israel \"for several reasons, including his lukewarm relations with [Netanyahu]\". She described the visit as \"superficial\" and would not bring about any changes in the region. She said Netanyahu \"leads a right-wing government and the present coalition supports the building of settlements on the Palestinian land\". He said all US administrations had supported Israeli \"oppressive polices against the Palestinians\", and that the US was unable to put any pressure on Israel. He went on to say that the aim of Obama's visit \"is to provide extra guarantees to the Zionist entity\", and would comfort it on other issues in the region, \"particularly\" with regard to the Iranian nuclear energy and the developments in Syria.

Arafat has lately made gestures toward Hamas that Israelis say give a green light for terrorism. More than 70 Hamas activists have been freed from Palestinian jails, including people with links to past suicide bombings, Israeli officials say. A Hamas political leader, Ismail Abu Shanab, joined a weekend meeting of all Palestinian political factions with Arafat, and Hamas flags have been shown on Palestinian TV.

It was the final day of mourning for Nayil Abu Awad, 24, a recent college graduate who was reported to have been among four men killed Thursday in a raid by Israeli police on a terrorist cell suspected of plotting suicide bomb attacks in Israel. But family members accept that leaks to the Israeli news media about Abu Awad's death are probably true, and Hamas has publicly embraced him as a martyr to the cause. Certainly, he has not been seen in the almost two weeks since he left Gaza. Abu Awad's father, Yassin Mohammed Abu Awad, 54, rose from his seat to greet new arrivals. Blinded by shrapnel at age 2 during an air raid on his village near Ashkelon, now part of Israel, he grew up and raised his nine children among tens of thousands of Palestinian refugees in Gaza. A neighborhood leader, he works at a United Nations- funded agency for the blind in Gaza.

Mr. Abu Shanab is a founding member and a current leader of Hamas, the Islamic resistance movement. The following interview was conducted on November 18, 1997, at his home in Gaza City by Roger Gaess, a free‐lance journalist based in New York.

[Ismail Abu Shanab] said he was assured by the PA after [Mohammed Deif]'s arrest that he would not be handed over to the Israelis. Israel's Justice Ministry has said it expected the PA to put Deif on trial.