Hamas slams Abbas’s UN speech as ‘regrettable’ for echoing Israeli demands

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has denounced Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas for yielding to Israeli demands by calling for the disarmament of the resistance, describing as “regrettable” his remarks at the United Nations conference.

In a statement released on Wednesday, senior Hamas official Izzat al-Rishq said the Gaza-based resistance lambasted Abbas’s remarks during his speech at the UN conference on Palestine in New York, stressing that the PA chief’s comments were “deeply regrettable.”

Al-Rishq noted that Abbas echoed Israeli demands by condemning the armed resistance, while the occupying entity and its settlers continue to carry out massacres in the besieged Gaza Strip and intensify attacks across the occupied West Bank.

The senior Hamas official further stressed that such statements come at a time when the Palestinian people are enduring relentless aggression from the Israeli regime.

Al-Rishq also rejected Abbas’ dismissal of any future Hamas role in governing the war-torn Palestinian territory, calling it a clear submission to “external pressures and dictates” and a violation of national dialogue agreements.

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According to the senior Hamas official, such positions adopted by the Palestinian president violate previous national dialogue agreements and deny Palestinians the fundamental right to determine their own leadership and representation.

These concessions reflect a dangerous trend that undermines the broader struggle for Palestinian self-determination, al-Rishq stressed.

Al-Rishq emphasized that Abbas made such comments while being barred by the United States from even attending the UN conference in person, despite Tel Aviv’s open rejection of Palestinian statehood and its ongoing settlement expansion.

The senior Hamas official also urged the PA chief to abandon security coordination with Israel, break free from foreign tutelage, and prioritize internal unity.

Only through genuine reconciliation and collective resistance can Palestinians achieve freedom, dignity, and the establishment of an independent state with al-Quds as its capital, al-Rishq stressed.

Israel began its campaign of genocide in Gaza on October 7, 2023, after Hamas carried out the historic Operation Al-Aqsa Flood against the usurping entity in retaliation for the regime’s intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.

The regime has killed at least 65,400 Palestinians, mostly women and children, so far, according to the health ministry of Gaza.

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