BEIRUT, (The Palestine Foundation Pakistan)
Senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan has expressed rejection of the US draft resolution to deploy a multinational force in the Gaza Strip under president Donald Trump’s plan to end the war, warning that “it serves Israeli attempts to eliminate the Palestinian cause.”
“The plan does not aim to protect the Palestinian people from genocide, but rather seeks to establish a force that replaces the occupation in the Gaza Strip. It eliminates any prospect of establishing a Palestinian state and strengthens Palestinians’ conviction that resistance is the path to ending the occupation,” Hamdan said in a statement on Monday.
“We reject being cornered into a choice between death and surrender,” Hamdan stressed.
“The US proposal contradicts international charters and resolutions and ignores the fact that the occupation is the root of the problem. I consider its adoption a dangerous precedent that demonstrates the dominance of force over international legitimacy,” the Hamas official added.
He said that the Arab-Islamic model presented by Egypt was “the most suitable framework for managing the Gaza Strip,” stressing that the issue of the resistance’s weapons was never on the agenda of the Sharm el-Sheikh negotiations.
