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Sunday, October 26, 2025
Hamas official claims that group will give up weapons ‘if the occupation ends’
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Hamas lead negotiator Khalil Al-Hayya claims that the terror group’s weapons are “linked to the presence of the occupation and aggression.”
Israel has demanded that Hamas disarm as part of the end of the two-year war, and the US has also insisted that the group will have to give up its weapons to move forward with its 20-point plan.
Al-Hayya asserts that “if the occupation ends, these weapons will be transferred to the state.”
It is not immediately clear what state the Hamas official is referring to, or if he was referencing the Palestinian administrative body that has yet to be formed.
It was also not clear how Al-Hayya was defining “the occupation,” and if he was referring to the existence of the State of Israel as a whole, which Palestinians and some Arab nations often simply refer to as an occupying power.
The Times of Israel Community.