"These reports are untrue and astonishing," said Fawzi Barhoum, Hamas spokesman in Gaza.
"Hamas and its leadership still has its bureau and all its institutions in Damascus and didn`t at all discuss leaving."
The London-based Saudi Arabian al-Sharq el-Awsat Daily had on Sunday quoted Tunisian sources as saying that Hamas intends to move its bureau from Damascus to Tunis if the situation in Syria deteriorates.
According to the report, these developments came following the visit of Ismail Haneya, prime minister of the deposed Hamas government that ruled the Gaza Strip, to Tunis, where he held talks with the Tunisian officials and leaders.
The visits of the movement`s delegations to Arab countries "are aiming at explaining the just Palestinian resistance and not to look for moving its bureau to the capitals of those countries," said Barhoum.
Several media reports had earlier said that Hamas leaders and members as well as their families began to leave Damascus.
Most of Hamas top leaders have been based in Damascus for more than ten years, where the Syrians have been protesting against the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad since early 2011.
(Uu.H-AK)
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