Every Palestinian family feels the effects of the international embargo. But the more the pressure on the government grows, the more support we receive, both from the Palestinian street and from the Arab and Islamic world.

There is nothing defined, but all that we have heard from the Arab and Islamic states, officially and from the public, is reassuring.

The liberals and free people of the world will not like to see the Palestinian people living under siege. We have received indications from the international community that they will not stop their aid.

The U.S. administration and European countries should put pressure ... on the occupier and not the occupied and displaced Palestinian people.

Today three-quarters of the Palestinian people are displaced: there are 5 million Palestinian refugees throughout the world.

We don't have a state, neither in Gaza nor in the West Bank. Gaza is under siege and the West Bank is occupied. What we have in the Gaza Strip is not a state, but rather a regime of an elected government. A Palestinian state will not be created at this time except in the territories of 1967.