WEST BANK (Palestine Foundation Information Center) Senior Hamas official Abdul-Hakim Hanini has condemned the recent remarks by far-right Israeli minister Bezalel Smotrich, who declared his plan to impose Israeli sovereignty over the occupied West Bank, calling them “colonial fantasies that will be shattered by the solid resilience of our people.”
“The settlement projects that the occupation is racing to establish in the West Bank cannot change the reality and identity of the land, nor will they shake the firm conviction of our people and resistance that the occupation will inevitably come to an end, no matter how far it persists in its brutality and arrogance,” Hanini said in a statement on Thursday night.
“What Smotrich said is nothing but a continuation of the policy of imposing faits accomplis on the ground, which has failed over decades of occupation and will never succeed, neither now nor in the future. Our Palestinian people in the West Bank will not stand idly by watching these malicious attempts to loot their land and legitimize the occupation,” the Hamas official added.
He stressed that Israel’s annexation and sovereignty plan in the West Bank would be met with more Palestinian steadfastness and resistance, adding that every inch of the West Bank would remain aflame with anger against the occupation state and its settlers.
