(MEMRI) In the recent weeks, many articles in the Arab press have been harshly critical of Hamas for clinging to power in Gaza and refusing to surrender its weapons and thereby preventing a deal to release the hostages and effect a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. Arguing that Hamas, which initiated the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, is responsible for the devastating consequences in the Gaza Strip and for the suffering of the Gaza residents, the writers called on this movement to acknowledge its defeat, relinquish power, remove its leaders from the Gaza Strip and release all the hostages that remain in its hands so as to advance the Egyptian-Arab plan to rebuild Gaza and save its people. The articles also accused Hamas of failing to further the interests of the Palestinians and of instead serving the extremist ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood and the agenda of Iran. In fact, they claimed that Hamas's conduct only harms the Palestinian cause and sets it back decades, and therefore that this movement must not be part of Gaza's political future.
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