Olmert says does not want Gaza, West Bank divided
ROME (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Tuesday he
does not want Palestinians divided into two separate political entities in
the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, where the Islamist group Hamas seized
control last month.

"The solution remains two peoples, two states -- a Palestinian state and a
Jewish state," Olmert told Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera during a
visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories by Italian Prime Minister
Romano Prodi.

"We are not stupid. We don't want to separate Gaza from the West Bank. We
know that a million and a half Palestinians live in the Strip. How can
they be separated from the others?"

Hamas, which has rejected Western demands to recognize Israel, renounce
violence and accept existing Israeli-Palestinian interim peace accords,
took over the Gaza Strip last month after routing secular Fatah forces
loyal to the West Bank-based President Mahmoud Abbas.


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