Hamas, Islamic Jihad slam Smotrich’s remarks on Gaza land expropriation
Palestinian resistance movements Hamas and Islamic Jihad have denounced the latest remarks by Israeli Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich concerning plans to expropriate land from the war-ravaged Gaza Strip, saying they confirm the regime’s intentions to undermine the 2024 November ceasefire.
In a statement released late on Friday, Hamas warned against “the occupying regime’s continued policy of reneging on the ceasefire agreement, its blatant violations of its terms, and evasion of its obligations.”
“We call upon the guarantor states (Qatar, Egypt, the United States, and Turkey) to condemn these actions and take serious action to compel the occupying regime to fully implement the agreement, including the withdrawal from Gaza as stipulated in the agreement,” it said.
The Gaza-based resistance group urged the international community, the United Nations, and its institutions to take action to confront the Tel Aviv regime’s settlement expansion activities in the West Bank.
Hamas emphasized that these activities starkly violate international law and UN resolutions, demanding that Israeli leaders be held accountable for their ongoing crimes and disregard for international law.
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad group also condemned Smotrich’s comments, saying they explicitly show the Israeli regime is not only a threat to the Palestinian nation but also to the entire Muslim world.
It said in a statement that the criminal Israeli cabinet is pressing ahead with its expansionist projects and is seeking to dictate them through bloodshed.
The group then warned about the soaring pace of Israel’s settlement expansion activities concurrent with the incendiary remarks.
It called upon Muslim and Arab nations to utilize all available means and methods to confront the expansionist Israeli schemes in a bid to safeguard their homelands, dignity, and the future of their forthcoming generations.
Earlier on Friday, Smotrich had stated that further swathes of land from Lebanon and Syria must be brought under Israeli control, the regime must exercise sovereignty over the entire West Bank territories, and that settlement construction activities must begin in the Gaza Strip.
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