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Jakarta –
Party Hamas said they promised to lay down arms if a Palestinian state was formed. In fact, they are ready to transform into an officially independent Palestinian political party.
A top official in Hamas’ political bureau said the group was ready to agree to a ceasefire for five years or more in the war against Israel. It is known that war is currently raging in the Gaza Strip.
Hamas is also willing to lay down its arms, disband its armed wing, and transform into a political party, if an independent Palestinian state is established based on the pre-1967 borders.
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As reported Associated Press and Al ArabiyaThursday (25/4), this statement was conveyed by Khalil al-Hayya, a high-ranking Hamas political official in an interview with leading media Associated Press on Wednesday (24/4) local time. To date, Gaza ceasefire negotiations have reached a deadlock.
But it is unlikely that Israel would consider such a scenario. Moreover, Tel Aviv has vowed to destroy Hamas after the deadly attack on October 7 last year which sparked war in the Gaza Strip.
Israel Concerning the State of Palestine
The current Israeli leadership also firmly opposes the establishment of a Palestinian state in the territory Israel captured in the 1967 war.
Al-Hayya, who represents Hamas in ceasefire negotiations and hostage-prisoner exchanges, delivered sometimes defiant and sometimes conciliatory statements in an interview with Associated Press in Istanbul, Türkiye.
He said that Hamas wanted to join the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), led by its rival Fatah faction, to form a unified government in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
