Hamas warns of massive uprising against Israel’s plans to annex West Bank

“Al-Quds will remain a Palestinian, Arab and Islamic city and the eternal capital of the Palestinian state, and all powers on this planet will not be able to change its identity, address and history,” Hamas’s al-Quds Affairs Office said in a statement on Sunday.

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is facing a number of criminal indictments, has repeatedly said that he would commence plans for annexing more areas in the occupied West Bank on July 1, in accordance with American President Donald Trump’s peace scheme, further infuriating Palestinians.

Trump officially unveiled his much-condemned Mideast plan, the so-called deal of the century, in January at the White House with Netanyahu on his side, while Palestinian representatives were not invited.

The proposal largely gives in to Israel’s demands while creating a Palestinian state with limited control over its own security and borders, enshrining the occupied Jerusalem al-Quds as “Israel’s undivided capital” and allowing the regime to annex settlements in the West Bank and the Jordan Valley.

The future Palestinian state, according to Trump’s scheme, will consist of scattered lands linked together via bridges and tunnels, and furthermore, it will also be demilitarized, meaning that it will be subject to Israeli control over its security.

Trump’s highly provocative scheme, which further denies the right of return for Palestinian refugees to their homeland, is also in complete disregard of UN Security Council resolutions and rejected by the vast majority of the international community.

“The occupation and its plots against al-Quds and Palestine will be doomed to failure and its conspiracies will not secure a future for its existence on the Palestinian land,” Hamas added on in its statement. 

The statement came two days after the Naksa Day, which marks the displacement of Palestinian people after Israel prevailed in the Six Day War in June 1967.

“On the Naksa anniversary, the Palestinian cause is still beset with liquidation plots, the latest of which is the ominous deal of the century that was orchestrated by the Zio-American administration,” the resistance movement further said.

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