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<h1 class="gmail-single_title">Hamas regrets remarks by PA Foreign Minister calling for disarmament of the resistance</h1>
<p class="gmail-single_date">Friday 15-August-2025 - <font size="1"><a href="https://english.palinfo.com/news/2025/08/15/345572/">https://english.palinfo.com/news/2025/08/15/345572/</a></font></p>
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<p>GAZA, (PIC)</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>In a statement, Hamas affirmed that the resistance and its weapons
are a national right necessitated by the very existence of the
occupation.</p>
<p>The Movement stressed that the resistance\u2019s weapons can only be
relinquished upon the full restoration of the Palestinian people\u2019s
rights and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with
Jerusalem as its capital.</p>
<p>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\u2019s plan aimed at isolating Jerusalem, fragmenting the
West Bank, confiscating its land, and ultimately displacing its people.</p>
<p>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\u2019s schemes to annihilate
and expel them from their homeland.</p>
<p>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.</p>
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