Posted on 01/31/2025 11:48:31 AM PST by Libloather
A senior Hamas official vowed on Thursday that the terrorist organization would continue to govern the Gaza Strip until it comes to an agreement with the Palestinian Authority to manage the territory.
Commenting on ongoing talks with the P.A. to the Associated Press in Cairo, Hamas “political” official Taher al-Nunu said the Islamist group agreed to an Egyptian proposal to relinquish control to a “community support committee,” as well as the possible creation of a “consensus government” that includes both Hamas and the P.A.’s Fatah faction.
Al-Nunu claimed that P.A. chief Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah rejected both proposals.
“Until one of the two options is adopted, there will be no vacuum. The current [Hamas] administration will bear its responsibility toward our people. And this is what is happening right now,” the official told AP.
Al-Nunu said the 12-day-old Hamas-Israel ceasefire meant that while “practically, we can say that the war is over,” the cessation of hostilities still needed to be confirmed during talks on the truce’s second phase.
“The Palestinian people were not defeated. … The enemy did not achieve its goals,” he said of Israel’s stated aims of destroying Hamas’s military and governing powers, returning all hostages taken during the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks and ensuring Gaza can never again threaten the Jewish state.
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As soon as the hostage exchange is done Bibi should blow these bastards to mars.
IDF did not fight back against the twrrorist onslaught in order to enable the terrorists to choose which terrorist murder gang will rule the roost. They’re. Org totally and completely unacceptable either in power or in any continuing Occupation of Israeli territories. Getbyy try if if these Satwnjc bloodthirsty mass- murderers NOW!
Hamas will never lose power in Gaza as long as they have the tunnels.
How is that “cease fire” working out for ya’ll...
Good luck ruling a pile of rubble. What would our reaction would have been if the Nazis would continue to rule Germany until such time as an agreement they could accept was negotiated?
I don’t think the US or Israel should rebuild Gaza.
Is the vow to destroy Hamas still official Israeli policy?
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