The Islamic Hamas movement will not push the Gaza Strip to be under political or economic control of Egypt, Prime Minister of the de facto Hamas government Ismail Haneya said Thursday.

Haneya told visiting members of the Egyptian parliament that attaching Gaza to Egypt was "an Israeli project aimed at separating the Gaza Strip from the Palestinian territories."

"Gaza is an undividable part of the Palestinian entity and the (future) Palestinian state," Haneya said of the coastal strip that his movement took over in 2007.

An unprecedented power crisis in Gaza left Hamas putting pressure on Egypt to ship fuel to Gaza, especially to the only power plant that has stopped working.

Israel used to provide Gaza with fuel, but since 2011 Hamas started bringing Egyptian fuel through a network of smuggling tunnels beneath Gaza's southern border with Egypt. Egypt's security crackdown on illegal smuggling disrupted the supplies to Gaza.

"There are moral and fraternal obligations for Egypt and that's why we knock on the Egyptian door," Haneya said in a written statement sent by his office.

Israel and the former Egyptian government led by Hosni Mubarak imposed a blockade on Gaza to isolate Hamas. Israel and Egypt decided to ease the closure in 2010, but there has been no notable improvement since Mubarak resigned in early 2011.

The statement quoted an Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood lawmaker, Mohammed al-Sayed Idris, as saying that the new Egyptian government "will never be a partner in Gaza's siege."

"The Israeli occupation will never be a partner or a friend to Egypt... It's an enemy," he added.