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PA official blasts Netanyahu’s vow to prevent ‘Hamastan or Fatahstan’ in Gaza: ‘The name is Palestine’
Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US bureau chief
Secretary General of the Executive Committee of the PLO Hussein al-Sheikh at a meeting in Amman, Jordan, November 4, 2023. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool photo via AP)
A senior Palestinian official hits back at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for declaring that he will not allow Gaza to become “Hamastan or Fatahstan” after the war.
“We say to Netanyahu, its neither Fatahstan nor Hamastan. The name is Palestine, and it will remain Palestine, whether you like it or not,” PLO Executive Committee Secretary General and top presidential aide Hussein al-Sheikh tweets.
Netanyahu has in recent weeks pledged to block US-backed efforts to eventually return the PA to govern the Gaza Strip, saying he will not allow the territory to be ruled by Hamas or the PA-controlled Fatah party.
