A senior Islamic Hamas movement delegation on Friday afternoon left the Gaza Strip to Cairo through Rafah border crossing for talks with rival Fatah party negotiators on Saturday.

Hamas leader Mohamed Nasser said in a press statement that Hamas delegation headed on Friday to Cairo, led by senior leader Khalil el-Hayya to hold talks with Fatah leaders on Saturday.

He said that Saturday's meeting will evaluate the previous rounds of dialogue between the two sides, adding "they will discuss issues related to political arrests in the West Bank and prepare for the upcoming round of dialogue due on July 25."

Meanwhile, top Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar said during a Friday prayers' speech in a central Gaza Strip mosque that his movement had unveiled a military plan aimed at killing Hamas leaders in Gaza and blowing up the inter-dialogue.

"We reject the return of the (pro-Fatah) preventive security forces to act in the Gaza Strip under any agreements or circumstances," said al-Zahar, who said "the previous six rounds of dialogue with Fatah held in Cairo were so painful."

However, al-Zahar said his movement will continue ruling the Gaza Strip "until the reconciliation agreement is reached to end the current political rift and bring the situation back on its track."

Hamas movement seized control of the Gaza Strip by force in June 2007, and routed western-backed President Mahmoud Abbas's security forces. Since then, Hamas security and police forces have been ruling the enclave.

Al-Zahar rejected Fatah's demand to bring the 15,000 security forces back to Abbas or Fatah party.

(Xinhua News Agency July 18, 2009)