https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-update-april-26-2024 Western reporting has exaggerated how much Hamas has moderated its position toward Israel following an interview with a top Hamas official.[13] Western media reported that Khalil al Hayya, the deputy chairman of Hamas' Political Bureau, said during an interview on April 25 that Hamas is prepared to reach a truce of five or more years with Israel and implied that Hamas would turn into a political party and turn its military wing into “the national [Palestinian] army” if Israel recognizes a fully sovereign Palestinian state in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.[14] Western reporting framed Hayya‘s statements to mean that Hamas‘ military wing would “dissolve“ if Israel recognized a fully sovereign Palestinian state in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.[15] Hayya did not mention abandoning Hamas’ objective of destroying Israel, nor did he say that the new ”sovereign Palestinian state” would recognize Israel. Hamas sees control over the Gaza Strip and West Bank as an interim step in the destruction of the Israeli state. Hayya’s interview is entirely consistent with this position. Hamas’ military wing’s website says that the group can “accept the interim liberation of parts of Palestine” and an “interim truce” but that these interim steps only “serve as a warrior’s rest stop.”[16] The same page adds that during this interim period, Hamas will not recognize Israel, and Hayya did not indicate that Hamas would do so.[17] A five-year truce would serve Hamas’ purposes by allowing the group to prepare for the next round of fighting. Hamas started the current war by breaking a period of relative calm between itself and Israel on October 6, and there is no reason to believe Hamas will honor a future “truce.” [13] https://apnews.com/article/hamas-khalil-alhayya-qatar-ceasefire-1967-bor... [14] https://apnews.com/article/hamas-khalil-alhayya-qatar-ceasefire-1967-bor... [15] https://apnews.com/article/hamas-khalil-alhayya-qatar-ceasefire-1967-bor... [16] https://alqassam dot ps/arabic/%D9%85%D9%86-%D9%86%D8%AD%D9%86 [17] https://alqassam dot ps/arabic/%D9%85%D9%86-%D9%86%D8%AD%D9%86
You gotta give it to Hamas - they have always been honest about their intentions to obliterate Israel using any means necessary. They have never once wavered from their position and have been laser focused on that goal. They have shown time and time again that they are willing to pay whatever price is necessary, no matter how steep, to achieve their goals. In fact, Israel is dumb to not take an existential threat seriously.
Pathetic Hasbara propaganda to justify crushing the skulls of 15,000 babies and children. Israeli terrorists are the worst in the region, you will not fool us anymore
It's got links to the original sources, liar But keep on lying to incite hate
You crushed the skulls of 15,000 babies and kids. You are not going to distract us from this fact which is more horrendous than anything that ever happened in the history of the Middle East. I am against killing any civilian and UN data shows that Israel has killed orders of magnitude more civilians than Palestinians before and after the 7th of October.
It's obvious that after Israel left Gaza and Gaza attacked Israel, there will never be a Palestinian state.
Yep. Once a terrorist, always a terrorist.
Yep, just look at Israel
So some little fringe group wanted to do what the mainstream Palestinian government does every time? I note this was also published after the Nov 1947 Palestinian attempt to genocide the Jews, and long after the Palestinian 1929 attempt to genocide Jews. Oh yeah - and the IDF eventually disarmed these guys at gunpoint.