Hamas will not surrender its weapons to the Palestinian Authority in the Gaza Strip after Israel's pullout from the territory, one of the movement's top leaders has said.
"This army will continue to defend our homeland as long as one inch of Palestine remains occupied," Mahmoud al-Zahar told reporters on Friday, after attending a training session of Hamas's military wing, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades.
"It is criminal to claim that there is only one weapon," al-Zahar said in reference to declarations by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas insisting that the Palestinian Authority was the only legitimate security tool.
During a keynote speech to the Palestinian parliament earlier this week, Abbas urged all armed groups to end their rocket attacks on Israeli targets, as part of a larger appeal for calm during the pullout.
Abbas met al-Zahar and Hamas's two other top Gaza leaders on Tuesday in a bid to ensure the group's fighters would not seek to scupper the historic pullout of Israeli troops and settlers.
Hamas, the group behind the majority of anti-Israeli attacks during the five-year uprising or intifada, says the rocket attacks were instrumental in persuading Israel to leave Gaza after a 38-year occupation Mashallah these brothers are still willing to fight for Palestines liberation
and calling for them to start firing rockets at the isrealis's, astagirlullaah what a traiter.
I think I've worked the nature of your character Hashim by now, and I think you may of made a mistake, Abbas is saying the opposite to what you've stated^
No big surprise there. The PLO is definitley not Palestine's road to freedom. It's going to be Hamas or some other sort of physical resistance that will Liberate Palestine. What Mahmoud Abbas is doing isn't helping matters. His kind of "let's make peace" and the "let's teach our police how to kill our own resistance" tactics have never gotten rid of an occupier nor will they ever. Unfourtunetly I think physical resistance is the only way through, on account that in all of human history an occupier has never been thrown out using a "peace deal" take Algeria for example and you'll get the idea.
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.: The enemy of truth isn't ignorance it's the illusion of truth:.
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