Thousands of Hamas supporters have demonstrated against Palestinian prime minister Mahmoud Abbas' peace efforts as leaders of the militant group announced they were pulling out of talks aimed at ending attacks on Israelis.
Thousands of Hamas supporters, some masked and waving green Hamas flags, held a series of protest rallies throughout Gaza overnight.
In the largest, more than 4,000 Hamas supporters demonstrated against the summit, some chanting: "Abu Mazen, the homeland is not for sale." Hundreds of other Hamas activists protested in Lebanon.
Hamas vowed this morning to boycott the Palestinian prime minister unless he renounced his pledges to Israel and the United States made this week at the Jordan peace summit.
"We reject any meeting with Abu Mazen (Abbas' nom-de-guerre) until he abandons all commitment to his Aqaba statement," a Hamas spokesman said.
He was referring to Mr Abbas' final speech at his talks Wednesday with US President George W. Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at the Red Sea resort of Aqaba.
"Dialogue with the Palestinian Authority is useless until Abbas changes the Aqaba commitment which is not acceptable to the Palestinian people," he stressed, without specifying which element of Mr Abbas' speech was unacceptable.
Hamas broke off all contact Friday with Mr Abbas over his vow at Aqaba to end the armed intifada and his expression of sympathy for Jewish suffering throughout history.