Hamas Leader Zahhar: We will not swap our land for our land

Senior Hamas official Mahmoud Al-Zahhar warned against any Arab and Palestinian moves to waive the Palestinian rights and constants, reiterating his Movement’s rejection of any solutions giving up an inch of the Palestinian land.

The Hamas official made his remarks in a ceremony held on Monday at the Islamic university to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba (tragedy)

He underlined that the Arab initiative’s concessions have increased and their demands descended from the right of return and compensation, to a just solution to the issue of the refugees to an acceptable solution involving compensation.

“Those compromisers are the people who have come up with the idea of the acceptable solution document and now they are talking about statehood without mentioning its borders; they even refrained from talking about the 1967 borders in order to appease the occupation,” Zahhar criticized.

The Hamas official highlighted that the Palestinian people suffer from systematic displacement and discrimination policies pursued against them even in Arab countries such as Syria and Lebanon, and the only solution for them is to return to their own homeland.

“We will not swap our land for our land. Our 1948 occupied land is our land and we will not exchange any part of it for our 1967 occupied land. All the Palestinian land belongs to the Palestinians and we will never accept compromises,” the Hamas official stated.

“This land will only be inhabited by its own people, and we will not give those who do not represent Palestine the sign to persist in their concessions,” he added.