Hamas has declared that it will not nominate its own candidate for the PA presidency. Hassan Yusuf, a Hamas leader who was recently released from an Israeli jail after 28 months of administrative internment, explained to Al-Jazeera that “if Hamas assumed the leadership at this time, it would be vilified and isolated by the international community, and then the people would suffer.”
哈马斯已宣布他们不会提名本组织候选人参加巴勒斯坦大选。哈马斯的一名领导人哈桑·尤素福对半岛电视台声称，"如果哈马斯在这个时候谋权，就会受到国际社会的鄙视和孤立，而最终巴勒斯坦人民将为此承担痛苦。"哈桑 在以色列监狱服刑28个月后不久前刚被释放。