Hamas spokesperson Hasam Bardan says the terrorist organization’s military wing is not comparable to Hezbollah’s vast militia in Lebanon.
“It is not logical to compare any regional situation to the Palestinian situation, neither the case of Hezbollah nor anyone else. We are a people living under occupation,” Hasam Bardan tells the Palestinian daily Al-Quds in an interview.
“Our cause is a national liberation issue…So there is no comparison between our experience as Palestinians and the experience of any other people living in a state naturally,” he says.
Bardan says Hamas would not comment on the statements of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who told Egyptian news stations last week that he would not allow the Gaza-based terrorist group to keep its weapons in the event a Palestinian unity government is formed.
The PA president said he would not allow another “Hezbollah experience” in Gaza and demanded the PA control “everything” in Gaza as it does in the West Bank.
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