A senior leader of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has firmly rejected calls for the group to surrender its weapons or accept foreign intervention in Gaza, pushing back against demands from the United States and Israel tied to the ongoing ceasefire process.
Tehran – IranView24
Khaled Meshaal, a former Hamas chief who currently heads the group’s diaspora office, made these remarks during a conference in Doha on Sunday, emphasizing that efforts to criminalize armed resistance and disarm Palestinian factions are “unacceptable” under continued Israeli occupation.
“Criminalizing the resistance, its weapons, and those who carried it out is something we should not accept,” Meshaal said.
“As long as there is occupation, there is resistance. Resistance is a right of peoples under occupation … something nations take pride in,” he added.
Meshaal further warned that Hamas would unequivocally reject any form of foreign rule in Gaza.
