Election results do not change reality of Israel’s occupation, Palestinian factions say

Israel’s elections results do not change the reality of the occupation, Palestinian factions have said, as all political parties in Israel have the same agenda against the Palestinians.

Quds Press reported Hamas Spokesman Fawzi Barhoum saying yesterday: “We do not care about the changes inside the Israeli society because all the Israeli factions are offshoots of the same Zionist enterprise which aims to stablise the Zionist entity at the expense of the Palestinian rights.”

“The identity of the Israeli government does not change the nature of the struggle with the occupation. This does not affect the resistance of our people who insist on continuing their fight against the occupation until it ends.”

Meanwhile, the Secretary of the PLO’s Executive Committee Saeb Erekat said: “Settlement, apartheid and annexation won.”

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He added: “Netanyahu decided to perpetuate the occupation and the struggle, claiming this achieves progress and prosperity for Israel. He chose to reinforce the foundations of the struggle, violence, chaos and bloodshed.”

Spokesman of the Islamic Jihad Daoud Shehab said: “The results of the Israeli occupation will not change the reality on the ground. Occupation and aggression still exist.”

He added: “The Palestinian people paid high prices for the Zionist terror during the time of all the previous Israeli governments.”

Israel held its third election in under a year on Monday. Incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing bloc has so far received 58 of the 61 seats necessary to lead the next government.

The Arab List has received 15 seats in the Knesset, its highest ever showing.