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

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.

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

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.

We call on you to transfer all aid to the Palestinian treasury.

We seek to assure investors on the Palestinian bourse that we regard it as one of the fundamental bases of the Palestinian national economy. We will afford all the guarantees necessary to protect their investment.