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Senior Hamas leader Meshaal: Current war not the final round against Israel
Former Chief of Hamas' Political Bureau Khaled Meshaal speaks during conference in the Qatari capital, Doha on May 1, 2017. (Karim Jaafar/AFP)
Khaled Meshaal, a senior official in Gaza’s ruling Hamas movement, says its six-month-old battle with Israel will “break the enemy soon.”
Meshaal, who lives in exile and heads Hamas’s political office in the diaspora, speaks at an event in Doha, Qatar, to mourn members of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh’s family killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza on Wednesday.
“This is not the final round,” Meshaal said, referring to the current war. “It is an important round on the path of liberating Palestine and defeating the Zionist project.”
