Hamas leader: Jerusalem recognition ‘beginning of the end for Israel’

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh says the US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital is “the beginning of the end for Israel,” Channel 10 reports.

Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh speaks to the press at the Rafah border crossing with Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip on September 19, 2017. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

He stresses that he is not speaking out of “emotional turmoil.”

The Hamas leader says Vice President Mike Pence’s speech to the Knesset on Monday “proves that the American administration is horse-trading in the (future of the) region for the benefit of the Zionist entity.”

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