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Top Hamas Leader Rejects Trump’s Disarmament Demand, Vows No ‘Foreign Rule’ in Gaza
Breitbart ^ | 9 Feb 2026 | Joshua Klein

Posted on 02/09/2026 2:49:01 PM PST by Olog-hai

A senior Hamas leader declared that surrendering weapons would “criminalize the resistance” and vowed Gaza would never accept “foreign rule,” openly defying President Donald Trump’s 20-point peace framework as Phase Two of the U.S.-brokered plan moves toward implementation.

Speaking Sunday at the 17th Al Jazeera Forum in Doha, Khaled Mashaal — the terror group’s former chief and current head of its diaspora office — flatly rejected the core requirement of Trump’s Gaza plan: disarmament tied to reconstruction and international oversight.

Mashaal praised the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, massacre in southern Israel, arguing that the attack had thrust what he called the “Palestinian cause” back onto the global stage and reaffirmed the movement’s embrace of “resistance.”

He said Palestinians “take pride” in that “resistance,” using the term as a justification for continued violence against Israelis and as a rationale for preserving Hamas’s weapons.

Mashaal urged supporters to “pursue Israel” diplomatically and politically, calling for the Jewish state to be branded a pariah that is “losing its international legitimacy,” pointing to what he described as growing shifts within Western elites, universities, and social media discourse.

The Doha-based terror leader also praised Qatar’s role, describing the country’s backing of the Palestinian cause as “honorable.” …

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Gaza; Hamas; Qatar; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: doha; khaleedmashaal; mashaal; october7; rop

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1 posted on 02/09/2026 2:49:01 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

“Top Hamas Leader Rejects Trump’s Disarmament Demand”

No doubt Israel has been telling Trump the same since Day 1.


2 posted on 02/09/2026 2:50:01 PM PST by BobL (Trusting one's doctor is the #1 health mistake one can make.)
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To: Olog-hai

Exactly how long have you been a top leader of Hamas and how did you get to that position? Give your predecessor a phone call for a clue, oh he be dead, how did that happen, oh yeah. Again, When can we have your attention to this matter?


3 posted on 02/09/2026 2:51:21 PM PST by protoconservative (Been Conservative Before You Were Born )
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To: Olog-hai

You, senior Hamas leader, are the weakest link. Goodbye.


4 posted on 02/09/2026 2:51:52 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. )
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To: BobL

Time to drop the 24 hour warning leaflets and load the bunker busters.

Give the spec ops boys their warning order.


5 posted on 02/09/2026 2:52:27 PM PST by Glennb51
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To: Olog-hai

6 posted on 02/09/2026 2:52:54 PM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Olog-hai

Destroy Hamas utterly and completely. Need to empty out Gaza of every being. Then start to rebuild. As long as Hamas is active, there will be NO peace because they don’t wan’t peace. The surrounding Islamic countries keep feeding the terrorists money & guns then cry and whine that Gazans are starving. BS to them all.


7 posted on 02/09/2026 2:54:20 PM PST by gildafarrell (To Strive, To Seek, To Find and Not To Yield!)
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To: Olog-hai

I predict Mashaal will be killed by his own people very soon. If I were him, I would watch my back. And my front. And both sides. And up. And down.


8 posted on 02/09/2026 2:57:16 PM PST by Eli Kopter (Wherever you are, that is where you are supposed to be...)
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To: Glennb51

Since all of the hostages are out now, just flood the tunnels with water. They will all come out and surrender.


9 posted on 02/09/2026 2:58:55 PM PST by Eli Kopter (Wherever you are, that is where you are supposed to be...)
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To: Olog-hai

Cowabunga it is, then.

CC


10 posted on 02/09/2026 3:00:26 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam!)
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To: Olog-hai

Drone time.


11 posted on 02/09/2026 3:06:52 PM PST by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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To: Olog-hai

My shocked face.....😴😴😴😴


12 posted on 02/09/2026 3:08:54 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)
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To: Olog-hai

They’re just gonna have to be killed off. It’s a sad realization I’m not sad about.


13 posted on 02/09/2026 3:10:28 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder
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To: Olog-hai

I was surprised to read that Hamas currently has a leader. Maybe the next one - after this one is killed - might be more open to negotiation. I give it a week.


14 posted on 02/09/2026 4:11:26 PM PST by throwthebumsout
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To: throwthebumsout

Right. Dead man talking. Next.


15 posted on 02/09/2026 4:16:59 PM PST by DeplorablePaul
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To: BobL

Okay fine. Level anything still standing as a start. We know there are still plenty of tunnels for a follow up.


16 posted on 02/09/2026 5:08:16 PM PST by Agatsu77
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“Vows No ‘Foreign Rule’ in Gaza”

Hamas is a foreign rule that came into power in 2007 from the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, founded by Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and others at the start of the first intifada. Hamas violently took over the Gaza Strip in a military coup against the rival Fatah-led Palestinian Authority (PA) in June 2007, gaining full control by June 14, 2007, after several days of intense fighting. It is an anti-Israel organization.

wy69


17 posted on 02/09/2026 5:20:20 PM PST by whitney69 (uin.)
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