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Top Hamas Leader Rejects Disarmament or 'Foreign Rule'
Meshal insists on maintaining Hamas's arms for self-defense under occupation and proposes extended truces with reconstruction guarantees, rejecting foreign control over Gaza's 2.2 million residents.
- A senior Hamas leader said the Palestinian Islamist movement would not surrender its weapons nor accept foreign intervention in Gaza, pushing back against US and Israeli demands.
- Hamas has repeatedly said that disarmament is a red line, although it has indicated it could consider handing over its weapons to a future Palestinian governing authority.
- Mr Meshal urged the Board of Peace to adopt what he called a "balanced approach" that would allow for Gaza's reconstruction and aid flow, while warning that Hamas would "not accept foreign rule" over Palestinian territory.
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Hamas leader rejects disarmament, foreign rule in Gaza
Khaled Meshaal, a former Hamas chief, has rejected calls for the group to surrender its weapons or accept foreign intervention in Gaza, saying efforts to disarm Palestinian factions are “unacceptable” under continued Israeli occupation.
·Tehran, Iran (Islamic Republic of)
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DOHA: A senior Hamas leader said on Sunday that the Palestinian movement would not surrender its weapons nor accept foreign intervention in Gaza, pushing back against US and Israeli demands. “Criminalising the resistance, its weapons, and those who carried it out is something we should not accept,” Khaled Meshal said at a conference in Doha. “As long as there is occupation, there is resistance. Resistance is a right of peoples under occupation ……
·Pakistan
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Total News Sources32
Leaning Left9Leaning Right10Center4Last UpdatedBias Distribution44% Right
Bias Distribution
- 44% of the sources lean Right
44% Right
L 39%
C 17%
R 44%
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