[News] Hamas rejects PA president’s alignment with Zionist narrative in UN speech

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Hamas rejects PA president’s alignment with Zionist narrative in UN speech

Friday 26-September-2025

DOHA, (PIC)

The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, responded Thursday to Palestinian
Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s speech before the United Nations
General Assembly, affirming that Palestinian resistance is a “national and
moral responsibility, deriving its legitimacy from our steadfast
Palestinian people and their natural right to resist occupation, as
recognized by international laws and conventions.”

Hamas categorically rejected what it described as Abbas’s “alignment with
the false Zionist narrative,” asserting that accusing the resistance of
targeting civilians is an attempt to distort its image.

The Movement underlined that “all attempts to impose guardianship over our
people and their will are doomed to fail,” adding that Abbas’s declaration
that Hamas will have no role in governance constitutes “an infringement on
the inherent right of our Palestinian people to determine their own destiny
and choose their leadership, and an unacceptable submission to external
agendas and projects.”

Hamas emphasized that “the weapons of resistance are untouchable as long as
the occupation remains entrenched on our land.”

It condemned Abbas’s call to surrender arms, especially “in light of the
genocidal war being waged against our people in Gaza, and the brutal crimes
and savage assaults committed by armed settlers and the occupation army
against unarmed civilians in the occupied West Bank.”

Hamas reiterated that the only path to safeguarding the national cause and
confronting the occupation’s plans to “exterminate and displace our people
in Gaza, annex the West Bank, and Judaize Jerusalem and al-Aqsa,” lies in
“national unity and consensus around a comprehensive resistance program to
confront the criminal Zionist occupation, until our people’s aspirations
for liberation, return, and the establishment of a Palestinian state with
Jerusalem as its capital are fulfilled.”

The statement concluded by affirming that “our steadfast people are the
source of legitimacy, and the weapons of resistance are a red line that
cannot be compromised.”

Since October 7, 2023, Israeli occupation forces, backed by the United
States and Western countries, have been waging a devastating war in Gaza,
resulting in the martyrdom and injury of approximately 233,000 Palestinians
to date. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, 442
Palestinians, including 147 children, have died from starvation.
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