Dahlan says won’t play role in Gaza without democracy, pathway to statehood

Mohammad Dahlan during a TV interview on March 18, 2021 (video screenshot)
Mohammad Dahlan during a TV interview on March 18, 2021 (video screenshot)

Reacting to reports he is being considered as a possible leader in the Gaza Strip after the war, Mohammad Dahlan writes on X: “We will not support any choice that has not been reached based on Palestinian national understandings.”

This, he says, must be based on rebuilding Palestinian politics through a democratic process and a plan for “the creation of [an] independent state with Jerusalem as its capital.”

He adds that “I have repeatedly refused to accept any security, governmental or executive role.”

In the meantime, he says, he is focused on providing relief to Gaza “throughout this ongoing dirty genocide.”

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