Live UpdateFrom the Liveblog of Friday, July 5, 2024
Hamas says it rejects any statements about foreign forces entering Gaza
Hamas says that it rejects any statements and positions that support plans for foreign forces to enter the Gaza Strip under any name or justification.
The terror group says the administration of the Gaza Strip is a purely Palestinian matter. “The Palestinian people… will not allow any guardianship or the imposition of any external solutions or equations,” it adds in a statement.
Separately, the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), a group allied with Hamas, says it considers any attempt to deploy international or other forces in Gaza as “an aggression” and will deal with it as occupying forces.
The US has been talking to Arab allies about establishing a postwar peacekeeping force in Gaza.
