Hamas rejects Israeli disarmament ultimatum
The Hamas Movement has categorically rejected an Israeli ultimatum that would grant it 60 days to disarm, including the surrender of personal firearms and handguns.
In an interview last night with Al Jazeera Mubasher, senior Hamas official Mahmoud Mardawi dismissed a renewed Israeli war threat against Gaza as “baseless amid ongoing ceasefire talks.”
A senior adviser to Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu had announced on Monday that Israel intends to give Hamas a 60-day deadline to disarm, warning that if it did not comply, the Israeli army would resume the war on Gaza.
Mardawi also accused the Israeli occupation of pursuing a fundamentally religious war in the West Bank, including Al-Quds, beyond mere military colonialism.
He cited the Zionist regime’s takeover of religious sites such as Rachel’s Tomb and the Ibrahimi Mosque, along with large-scale displacement and annexation operations aimed at Judaizing Al-Quds.
The Hamas official said that these measures are aimed at driving Palestinians into forced migration, but insisted they would not succeed, affirming that Palestinians would remain steadfast on their land despite the ongoing siege and killings in Gaza and the West Bank.
Responding to a question about Zionist regime’s threat to use military force after the deadline, Mardawi warned that any such threat would have serious repercussions for the region, stressing that the Palestinian people would not raise the white flag.