Monday, 20 July 2020_The Palestinian cause is going through its ‘most dangerous’ phase, says the head of the political bureau of the resistance movement Hamas, urging a unified position to thwart Israel’s much-condemned plan for annexing large parts of the occupied West Bank.
Ismail Haniyeh was at a press conference with Qatari journalists earlier this week, where he highlighted Hamas’s three priorities to deal with the situation on the ground in a bid to foil the annexation scheme, the Palestinian Information Center reported on Monday.
The top Hamas official said the first priority, or “the most important factor,” is to work on rebuilding the national project on sound foundations based on the unchangeable principles of the Palestinian cause.
“If there is a unified Palestinian position, then surely we will be able to thwart this plan and I can say that we have succeeded so far in building one Palestinian position against the annexation plan and the deal of the century.”
Haniyeh noted that this priority could be achieved through renouncing the Oslo Accords, according to which the West Bank was divided into areas under Israeli, Palestinian and joint controls.
“All Israeli crimes were carried out under the guise of Oslo (Accords), so our people must abandon the entire Oslo process and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) must halt any cooperation with the Israeli occupation and revoke its recognition of Israel.”
The Oslo Accords were signed between the Israeli regime and the PLO during the early-mid 1990s to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and to guarantee the Palestinians’ right of self-determination.
The Palestinian Authority (PA), now led by President Mahmoud Abbas, has limited governance over the occupied West Bank. It was established following the Oslo Accords.
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