Hamas on Wednesday called on the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) to halt peace talks with Israel, as Israeli and Palestinian negotiators agreed to meet again in Jordan on Friday as part of the efforts to resume the stalled peace talks.

"Hamas movement calls on the Palestinian Authority to stop the meetings with the Israeli occupation and stop the status of behaving unilaterally and individuality in such strategic stages," Hamas spokesman Said Sami Abu Zuhri said in a statement.

Hamas voiced its objection as Javier Abu Eid, spokesman for Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) negotiation department, announced on Wednesday that a second meeting is scheduled to be held in the Jordanian capital of Amman on Friday as part of the efforts to resume the direct peace talks.

On Tuesday, chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat and Yitzhak Molkho, an aide to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, held a meeting in Amman with the representatives of the International Quartet for peace in the Middle East and the Jordanian foreign minister.

"Hamas was astonished after Erekat handed the Israeli occupation in the meeting documents related to security and borders," said Abu Zuhri, adding that his movement condemns this step "because the documents were not presented to the Palestinian factions before Erekat gave it to the Israeli side."

Nabil Abu Rdeneh, an aide to PNA President Mahmoud Abbas, said in a press statement published by the official news agency "Wafa" that there are "exploring meetings between the Israeli and the Palestinian side, which will continue in Jordan until the end of January."

The Israeli-Palestinian direct negotiations were halted in October 2010, one month after it was launched in Washington. The Palestinians suspended the direct talks with Israel, after the latter refused the international community's requests to halt settlement construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem.

The Quartet exerted intensive pressures on the two sides to resume the direct talks and finalize the permanent status issues. The Palestinian side insisted that before holding any talks with Israel, settlement must stop, and Israel has to recognize the principle of the two-state solution based on 1967 borders.

However, Jordan had recently involved in the process and hosted the first meeting of the Quartet representatives, Israeli and Palestinian negotiators since their talks were halted in October, 2010. Erekat denied that the meeting was a resumption of talks with Israel.

"At the end of the meeting in Amman on Tuesday, the two sides agreed to hold another meeting on Friday to resume their efforts to overcome differences and resume the stalled peace talks," Abu Eid told Xinhua, adding that "Quartet representatives and Jordan's foreign minister will also attend."

He revealed that the meeting on Friday will be part of a series of meetings that Jordan volunteered to host in the future in a bid to resume the peace talks, adding that "there has been an agreement not to declare the results that will be achieved in the mass media at least in this period."

Meanwhile, a senior Palestinian official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Xinhua that the meeting in Amman " hasn't achieved any progress," adding "the Palestinians handed the Israeli officials a paper related to resolving the issues of borders and security."

"The Israeli side took the document and hasn't presented any thing at the meeting or any comments to the Palestinian paper," said the official, adding that the Israeli side promised to study the document.

The Palestinian official also said that during the meeting held in Amman on Tuesday, the Palestinian side insisted that "the Palestinians are still sticking to the necessity of halting settlement construction and be committed to the two-state solution according to 1967 borders in order to start the direct talks."

"The meeting held in Amman and the meeting on Friday don't mean at all a resumption of the peace talks," said the official, while Israeli government officials on Wednesday told Israel Radio that the Israeli government is interested in keeping these meetings with the Palestinian side.

Meanwhile, Fawzi Barhoum, another Hamas spokesman, said in a press statement that the meetings held in Jordan on Tuesday were " farce, comedy and a waste of time," adding "it contradicts with the hopes and aspirations of the Palestinian people."

Hamas and Fatah agreed in the Egyptian capital of Cairo last month on their full political partnership, in addition to reactivating the implementation of an Egypt-brokered reconciliation agreement signed in Cairo on May 4 last year.