[News] Hamas regrets remarks by PA Foreign Minister calling for disarmament of the resistance

[Anti-Imperialist News]

 Hamas regrets remarks by PA Foreign Minister calling for disarmament of
the resistance

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GAZA, (PIC)

The Hamas Movement expressed regret on Thursday evening over statements
made by Palestinian Authority (PA) Foreign Minister Farsin Aghabekyan, in
which she called for the disarmament of the resistance. Hamas described her
remarks as detrimental to the Palestinian people and their national
interests.

In a statement, Hamas affirmed that the resistance and its weapons are a
national right necessitated by the very existence of the occupation.

The Movement stressed that the resistance’s weapons can only be
relinquished upon the full restoration of the Palestinian people’s rights
and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as
its capital.

Hamas voiced astonishment at the issuance of such positions at a time when
Israel is waging a brutal genocide in the Gaza Strip and imposing dangerous
realities on the ground in the occupied West Bank, most recently,
Smotrich’s plan aimed at isolating Jerusalem, fragmenting the West Bank,
confiscating its land, and ultimately displacing its people.

The Movement renewed its call on the PA leadership to retract these
statements and to stand alongside the Palestinian people and their national
forces in confronting the occupation’s schemes to annihilate and expel them
from their homeland.

Hamas stressed that the future of Gaza and Palestine will be determined by
the united will of the Palestinian people, not by the occupation or its
dictates.
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