The Palestinian group says that the right to resist the Israeli occupation “can only be abandoned the complete national rights”.
Hamas rejected the information that it expressed a desire to disarm during the cease-fire negotiations of Gaza with Israel, stressing that it has a “national and legal” right to face the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territory.
The Palestinian group responded to recent remarks allegedly made by the special envoy of the United States President, Donald Trump, in the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, at a meeting with relatives of relatives of Israeli captives held in Gaza on Saturday.
Citing a recording of talks, the Israeli media Haaretz reported that the American envoy told families that Hamas said it was “ready to be demilitarized”.
But in a statement, Hamas said that “resistance and its weapons are a national and legal law as long as the (Israeli) occupation persists”.
This right “cannot be abandoned as long as our complete national rights are not restored, among them, among them, the creation of an independent Palestinian State fully sovereign with Jerusalem as capital,” he said.
Witkoff met the families of Israeli captives in Tel Aviv on Saturday, one day after visiting a help distribution site in the United States and Israeli managed by the controversial GHF in Gaza.
Hamas had previously criticized the trip of the American envoy as a “staged show” aimed at deceiving the public on the situation in the enclave, where an Israeli blockage stimulated a famine crisis and fueled the world’s condemnation.
More than 1,300 Palestinians were also killed while trying to get food on GHF sites since the group began to operate on the Palestinian territory bombed in May, the United Nations said earlier this week.
But the Trump administration firmly behind GHF despite the killings and growing criticism of the group’s operations in Gaza. In June, Washington announced that it had approved $ 30 million to support GHF.
Witkoff’s comments on disarmament also occur in the middle of an extended international thrust to recognize a Palestinian state in the middle of the famine scenes in Gaza.
The United Kingdom announced this week at a two-day United Nations conference in New York that it could follow France by recognizing a Palestinian state in September.
Echoing a previous statement by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, David Lammy, said that London would carry out recognition if Israel did not meet certain conditions, including the implementation of a cease-fire in Gaza.
The United Nations meeting has also seen 17 countries, as well as the European Union and the Arab League, supported a seven -page text on the revival of a two -state solution to the conflict.
The text called on Hamas to “put an end to its reign in Gaza and put its arms back to the Palestinian authority, with international commitment and support, in accordance with the objective of a sovereign and independent Palestinian State”.
