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Monday, December 29, 2025
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Monday, December 29, 2025
Hamas armed wing reiterates it ‘will not give up’ arms as Trump set to meet Netanyahu
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleHamas’s armed wing reiterates that the Palestinian terror group will not surrender its weapons, a key issue expected to feature in talks later today between US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“Our people are defending themselves and will not give up their weapons as long as the occupation remains,” the new spokesman for the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, who has adopted the name of his late predecessor Abu Obeida, says in a video statement.
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