Hamas’s chief abroad Maher Salah on Saturday said that the annexation plan is a heinous crime equal to the occupation of Palestine stressing that it will not go unanswered.
Speaking at an interview with al-Aqsa TV Salah said that Hamas completely rejects the annexation and is willing to engage in national joint action aimed at thwarting the Israeli move.
Salah praised Jordan for rejecting Israel’s planned annexation of large parts of the West Bank and Jordan Valley despite Israeli and American pressures.
He stressed that the Palestinian people who have resisted the occupation over the years made heroic sacrifices and forced their enemy out of the Gaza Strip are undoubtedly able to foil this new settlement project.
Refugees
On World Refugee Day Salah said that nearly two thirds of the Palestinian people are classified as “refugees” which provides a glimpse of the tragedy that has befallen them due to the occupation.
He stressed that Hamas rejects all projects and attempts that aim to drop the Palestinian refugees’ right to return and resettle them in an alternative homeland.
The Hamas leader also shed light on the suffering endured by Palestinians living in refugee camps abroad especially in Lebanon where they have restricted access to work education and health care and are constantly dragged into internal conflicts.
Jerusalem
Salah warned that Jerusalem is being subjected to systematic attacks targeting its Arab and Islamic identity and aiming to force its Palestinian residents out through pressure policies including entry bans and home demolitions.
He added that the Palestinian masses who regularly come from Jerusalem the West Bank and the Palestinian territories occupied since 1948 and defy Israeli restrictions to pray at al-Aqsa Mosque are qualified enough to confront these attacks.
Normalization
Salah said that normalization with Israel is a threat that cannot be underestimated.
He underlined that normalization is a moral and political crime and a betrayal not only of Palestinian martyrs and prisoners but of all Arabs who have sacrificed their lives over the years for the sake of Jerusalem and Palestine.
Detained Palestinians in Saudi Arabia
The Hamas leader stressed that the Palestinian detainees held in Saudi prisons did nothing wrong and their only crime was supporting their people in Palestine.
He pointed out that liberating them and Palestinian prisoners in Israel jails is a top priority for Hamas at the moment.
