GAZA CITY: Gaza’s Hamas chief is calling for a renewed violent uprising against Israel.

Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh called Saturday on all Palestinian factions to oppose the recently restarted peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians and take up “armed resistance.”

Israel is negotiating with the West Bank government of President Mahmoud Abbas. The militant group Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, does not recognize Israel and calls for its destruction.

Haniyeh spoke on the second anniversary of a prisoner swap with Israel that freed more than a thousand Palestinians in exchange for captive Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit.