Sky News: Is there not an argument to say that if you, as leader of Hamas, in a reconciliation government, refuse to condemn attacks on civilians, and continue to argue that Israel should be attacked in an armed, violent way, as well as a political way, that you play into the hands of the Israeli government — while you exist in the form that you do now, Benjamin Netanyahu never has to do a deal, you are his ticket to the rest of the world to say ‘I can’t do a deal’.

Khalid Meshaal: ..the problem is not in the Palestinian position, whether it was from Fatah or Hamas, or the Palestinian leadership — the fault is in Netanyahu’s position. This is from one point, from another point — we really don’t target civilians, but the open Israeli violence creates angry reactions, as I explained before. Therefore it is Netanyahu who takes responsibility.