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Meshaal: Hamas will not concede historical Palestine

April 9, 2014 at 1:11 pm

Hamas will not concede any small area of historical Palestine, pointing out to concessions that ongoing peace talks might lead to, the head of the movement’s political bureau said on Wednesday.

Speaking by telephone to people gathered to say farewell to the Palestinian martyr killed by the Israeli occupation 13 years ago and kept in a secret cemetery, Khaled Meshaal said: “We recognise that you face major problems, but victory is coming very soon.”

The Palestinian Moayad Salahuddin from the village of Hazma, to the east of occupied Jerusalem, was killed by the Israeli occupation in 2001.

Meshaal told the gathering that Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, in occupied Palestine and in the diaspora are all standing with their brothers in the occupied West Bank.

Ongoing peace talks between the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the Israeli occupation resumed in the middle of last year and come to an end in April. US Secretary of State John Kerry is trying to extend this period in order to be able to reach a framework peace deal between both sides.

PA president Mahmoud Abbas has announced several times that he will concede occupied Palestinian lands, including his homeland city of Safed, which was occupied in 1948. He accepted a Palestinian state on parts of the Gaza Strip and West Bank with East Jerusalem as its capital.

Hamas has been known for its stance towards the Israeli occupation. It refuses all forms of occupation and is working to regain all historic Palestinian land.

It proposed several initiatives to settle the conflict, including a real peace agreement on all the 1967 borders, while maintaining the right for all Palestinian refugees to return to their homelands.