Special report: Palestine-Israel Relations    

    GAZA, June 9 (Xinhua) -- Deposed Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haneya said Monday that efforts to revive national dialogue were still in their early phases.

    "The efforts are still on their first step," Haneya told reporters in Gaza, adding "We work on paving the way for dialogue to launch it without any conditions and on the basis of no loser and no winner."

    Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas fired Haneya in June last year when Hamas ousted Abbas' Fatah movement and took over the Gaza Strip. Hamas continued to rule Gaza despite the formation of a western-backed cabinet by Abbas in West Bank.

    Abbas said last week that he is ready to talk to Hamas after one year of boycott and banning on contacts between Fatah and Hamas.

    Meanwhile, Haneya said his government works on securing a mutual ceasefire with Israel in the Gaza Strip through Egyptian mediators "to lift the siege and end the aggression."

    Israel imposed a blockade on the Gaza Strip and increased military operations in the territory since Hamas took it over.