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Hamas Leader: "Palestine Must Stretch from the [Jordan] River to the [Mediterranean] Sea"


(MEMRI-TV) Ismail Haniyeh, Head of the Hamas Political Bureau, told Lusail News (Qatar) on July 26, 2020: "[Parties] came to us, and offered to establish new projects in Gaza to the tune of perhaps $15 billion...but what are we supposed to give in return?...Obviously, they want us to disband the military wings of the factions....Naturally, we completely rejected that offer....We will not give up the resistance, Jerusalem, our people in the West Bank, or our Right of Return to the land of Palestine." "We will not recognize Israel, Palestine must stretch from the [Jordan] River to the [Mediterranean] Sea, the Right of Return [must be fulfilled], the prisoners must be set free, and a fully sovereign Palestinian state must be established with Jerusalem as its capital."
2020-08-06 00:00:00
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