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Palestinian Press in West Bank Calls for Hamas to Cede Power in Gaza


(MEMRI) An editorial in the PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida on June 23, 2025, said: "Hamas must hurry up and hand over the hostages immediately, and explicitly declare it is ceding power in Gaza." In a June 4 column in Al-Ayyam, Ashraf Al-Ajrami, a former PA minister for prisoner affairs, wrote that Hamas leaders "continue their manipulations aimed at retaining control of Gaza, believing that the rules of play that applied before Oct. 7 will somehow become relevant again. If some force that purports to carry out resistance does not care about the lives and the suffering of the people, its resistance is evil - because ultimately, any resistance or national struggle are meant to defend the people and their rights and afford them a life of dignity, not to treat civilians as fuel for achieving the purposes of some organization." In a May 25 column in Al-Ayyam, Palestinian journalist Akram 'Atallah implored the Hamas leadership to realize that the Oct. 7 attack was "an act of collective suicide" that has left the Palestinians with two main choices: "to sacrifice Hamas" and thereby save the people, or "to sacrifice the people and its future" in order to save Hamas.
2025-07-24 00:00:00
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