A Hamas leader Khalid Meshal stated this Sunday that they will not give up their weapons and will reject any foreign rule in the Gaza Strip. This despite requests for disarmament from Israel and the United States for peace in the area.
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“Criminalize the resistance, its weapons and those who carried it out, It is something we should not accept“Meshal declared at a conference in Doha.
“As long as there is occupation, there is resistance. Resistance is the right of the peoples under occupation. It’s something that nations are proud of“declared the former head of Hamas’s political bureau, who currently heads the movement’s diaspora office.
After the ceasefire of October 10, the US president’s plan Donald Trump to definitively end the war between Israel and Hamas entered its second phase in mid-January. Which provides for the disarmament of the movement and the progressive withdrawal of the Israeli army from Gaza.
But Hamas, which has ruled the territory since 2007, makes its disarmament a red line, although it does not rule out handing over its weapons to a future authority in the hands of Palestinians.
According to Israeli officials, the Islamist movement It still has 20,000 combatants and tens of thousands of weapons in Gaza.
Gaza Peace Plan
The government of the territory, devastated by two years of war, must be entrusted in a transitional phase to a committee of 15 Palestinian technocrats, under the authority of the so-called Peace Board, chaired by Trump.
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Meshal on Sunday called on the Peace Board to adopt a “balanced” vision that facilitates the reconstruction of Gaza and the flow of humanitarian aid, while at the same time warned that they will not accept “foreign domination.”
(With information from AFP)
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