Hamas Vows Not to Lay Down Arms Until Israel’s ‘Elimination’

Hamas Vows Not to Lay Down Arms Until Israel’s ‘Elimination’

GAZA  (JNS) – Hamas will not lay down its weapons until Israel is “eliminated,” Osama Hamdan, a senior official in the terror organization, vowed on Wednesday. Join our WhatsApp group Subscribe to our Daily Roundup Email “We have been very clear with mediators, and in our messages passed on to the relevant parties, that the […]

Hamas leader Osama Hamdan - 'We won't lay down our weapons until Israel is eliminated'

Hamas leader Osama Hamdan reaffirmed the group’s long-standing stance that it will never give up its arsenal while Israel exists, defying the Trump administration’s push to move to Phase Two of the ceasefire deal. Senior Hamas Official Osama Hamdan: We Won’t Lay Our Weapons Down Until the Occupation Is Eliminated; We Might Agree to a Hudna While a Palestinian State Is Being Established – Then It Will Have Its Own Army pic.twitter.com/8ArhdDapuj…

Hamas: weapons will not be laid down until ‘occupation’ is eliminated

Osama Hamdan, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, said in a February 11, 2026 interview on Al Jazeera Network that the “Palestinian resistance” will not lay down its weapons until it fulfills what he described as its duty to eliminate the Israeli “occupation,” liberate all of Palestine, and establish a Palestinian state. Hamdan stated that Hamas has made clear to mediators that the issue of Palestinian weapons is directly linked to the continu…