"Hamdan said that Palestinians have both a moral obligation and a legal mandate under international law to employ armed resistance to fight an Israeli occupation that has been repeatedly ruled illegal in international courts and is condemned as a system of apartheid by the world’s leading human rights organizations. “You can't talk about de-weaponizing the nation who is under occupation, while they are occupied by the most powerful army in the region,” he said. “Hamas did not invent the resistance for Palestine. In fact, the Palestinians resisted the British occupation and, since then, the Israeli occupation for decades. Talking about de-weaponizing the Palestinians, it will not solve the problem. The new generation will fight because you are oppressing the nation all the time. So there is no option for the Palestinians to get rid of this occupation without the resistance, no other option.”
Hamas has repeatedly proposed arrangements to end the occupation since the early 1990s, and Israel has rejected them all. Last week, it dismissed Hamas’s most recent offer, which would have seen all Israeli captives in Gaza returned to Israel as part of a multi-year deal. “They have rejected it and they may reject it another time, but this is also an answer for the international community when they keep asking the Palestinians, ‘OK, how can we solve the problem?’” Hamdan explained. “You can't solve the problem by talking about the security of Israel. You have to solve the problem by talking about the rights of the Palestinians who are giving you the option which can fit exactly within international law, with the international resolutions, which can solve the problem and give the Palestinian people their rights.”
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