Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal will make aspeech after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the world on his diplomatic policy, sources said on Tuesday.

Meshaal's speech is expected to outline "a new strategy" for the Islamic movement, reported the London-based al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper.

"Hamas is studying several political choices and alternatives that Meshaal will announce soon," the sources said, adding that the speech comes in the wake of indications that the new US administration will engage intensively in pushing forward Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

However, Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman in Gaza, told Xinhua that he has not any information about the Meshaal's speech plan in the coming days.

Meshaal's speech will follow the Israeli right-wing Prime Minister Netanyahu, who said he was considering addressing the world next week about his government's peace plans, according to the report.

Both Meshaal and Netanyahu are going to respond to the US President Barack Obama, who called on Hamas to recognize Israel and renounce violence and demanded Israel to freeze Jewish settlement in the West Bank in a historic speech to the Muslim world on June 4.

Meanwhile, Israeli media reported that Meshaal's deputy, Moussa Abu Marzouq, had called on Obama to hold direct talks with Hamas which controls the Gaza Strip.

"Obama administration must change its mind because it knows that its efforts will not succeed without Hamas," Ha'aretz daily quoted Abu Marzouq as saying.

"Obama can not deal with those who are no longer representing the Palestinian people," Abu Marzouq added, referring to President Mahmoud Abbas whose Fatah party lost parliamentary elections in 2006 which were in favor of Hamas.

The US State Department classified Hamas as a foreign terrorist organization for its attacks against Israel.

(Xinhua News Agency June 10, 2009)