May 16. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The political leader of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), Ismail Haniye, assured this Wednesday that the future of the Gaza Strip will be decided by the different Palestinian groups, statements that come shortly after the controversy that arose between the Israeli prime minister , Benjamin Netanyahu, who has criticized his Defense Minister, Yoav Gallant, for refusing to install a military or civilian government dependent on Israel in the Palestinian enclave.
“The administration of the Strip after the war will be decided by Hamas together with the rest of the national factions in accordance with the highest interests of our people,” Haniye declared during an intervention on the Lebanese television channel Al Mayadin.
During his speech commemorating the 76th anniversary of the Nakba, an Arabic term used to describe the flight in 1948 of 700,000 people after the creation of the State of Israel, he assured that this issue has been the “center of the dialogues” with his “brothers.” ” of Al Fatah – movement of the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas – in Moscow, and of Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in Istanbul.
Likewise, he has asserted that both Hamas and its armed wing, the Ezzeldin al Qassam Brigades, are “to stay”, and has shown his confidence that the Israeli offensive “will be defeated and expelled.” “We are confident that this aggression will be defeated and expelled from our land, no matter how long it takes. We must close ranks with Gaza and the Palestinian people must move in all areas,” he added.
This Wednesday, Netanyahu criticized Gallant for his position against installing an Israeli military or civilian government in the Gaza Strip and assured that he “will not allow” the Hamas or “Hamastan” government to be replaced by one related to the president’s Fatah party. Palestinian, Mahmoud Abbas, and thus turning the enclave into a “Fatastan”.
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