Fatah to follow military resistance: head of Palestinian administration

Despite Palestinians support peace agreement with Israel towards establishment of independent state, the Palestine Liberation Organization will continue military resistance," President of Palestinian Administration, Mahmoud Abbas, said at the sixth conference of the Palestine Liberation Organization, launched in Bethlehem on Tuesday, Al Jazeera TV channel said.

"We want to establish democratic Palestinian state where all will live equally. We want Israel to recognize it," Abbas said at the opening conference, held for the first time since 1989.

Officials of the Palestinian administration have developed a new program of resistance - civil disobedience contrary to expansion of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and removal of Israeli posts in Palestine, Reuters said. .

Abbas said that necessity in military resistance occurs if peace talks with Israel on establishment of independent Palestinian state in the West Bank fail and Gaza Strip, and if the dialogue did not move from dead stop."

Despite demand of Fatah, heading the Palestinian Autonomy, Hamas, controlling the Gaza strip, did not allow members of Fatah to participate in the conference.