Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Sunday expressed critical views on the positions adopted by Palestinian Fatah movement members in its general conference, Xinhua reported.
"The rhetoric we hear from the Fatah Congress and the stances taken there are unacceptable to us," Barak was quoted by the local news service Ynet as saying, adding that Middle East needs a comprehensive deal.
Speaking at the opening of weekly government meeting, Barak also called on Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to " enter serious negotiations" with Israel and called on the American government to "lead a process such as this in the Middle East."
Fatah's congress, first in 20 years and held in the West Bank city of Bethlehem these days, adopted Saturday night a provision in its platform saying "the Palestinians have the right to resist the Israeli occupation by all possible means."
While according to information leaked to the Israeli press, Fatah would, for any future peace deal, insist on the requirement of the status of Jerusalem as the future capital of a Palestinian state.
Also at the start of the weekly government meeting, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the 2005 unilateral evacuation from Gaza a "mistake," and vowed not to repeat.
He restated that "the recognition of Israel as the national state of the Jewish people" was one of the conditions to any future peace deal, reported Ynet.