Hamas: We will never accept surrendering Palestinian rights

Hamas movement said that the Palestinian people will always defend the Palestinian land and holy places, and will never accept surrendering any part of the land, sanctities or rights.

This came in a statement by Hamas movement on Saturday marking the ninety-sixth anniversary of the Balfour Declaration.

The movement added that the “conspiracy” against the Palestinian issue has continued since the Balfour Declaration, through the international silence vis-à-vis the heinous crimes committed by the Israeli occupation against the Palestinian people and their land.

“The anniversary of the Balfour Declaration comes this year while the Israeli occupation continues its crimes against our land, our people and our holy places through the settlement and Judaizing plans, the displacement of people, the killings and the siege”, Hamas said.

It stressed that “no one has the right to give up the right of return of refugees to their towns and villages from which they had been forcibly displaced. It is an inalienable and sacred right, and our people will not accept partial solutions as resettlement and the alternative homeland”.

The movement reiterated its adherence to all forms of resistance, particularly the armed resistance considering it the only strategic option able to deter the occupation, achieve the stolen rights, liberate the land and holy sites and release the prisoners, calling on the Palestinian Authority to stop “the futile negotiations” and security coordination with the occupation, which form a cover for the continuation of settlement activity and Judaization projects.

Hamas called for ending the division and developing a unified strategy to confront the Israeli schemes and projects that aim to liquidate the Palestinian cause.

It urged the leaders of Arab and Islamic countries, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the Arab League to shoulder their responsibilities towards Palestine, Jerusalem, Al-Aqsa, the prisoners and the refugees and to put an end to the occupation crimes.

It also called for protecting the Palestinian refugees, providing them with decent life in Syria, Lebanon and Iraq, and not to drag them in the ongoing conflicts in those countries.

Hamas called on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and the 1948 occupied territories to continue to confront the occupation and its plans.