The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says al-Quds will remain as Palestine’s capital forever, dismissing claims by France’s Prime Minister Jean Castex.
Hamas said the French prime minister’s words will not give the illegal Zionist entity any legitimacy, adding they will only encourage the regime to increase its aggression towards al-Quds and the holy sites that belong to Muslims and Christians.
The group also said Israel’s racist behavior and occupation of Palestine is illegal under every international law including those of the European Union.
Separately, Hamas and Islamic Jihad resistance movements warned the Zionist regime over the continuing brutal siege against the impoverished Gaza Strip and the regime’s land expropriation and illegal settlements expansion activities in the occupied West Bank and al-Quds.
The two movements made the warning during a meeting that brought together their senior officials in the Lebanese capital city of Beirut on Friday.
“The continuation of the occupying Israeli regime’s settlement projects in the occupied West Bank and al-Quds, and its continued siege of the Gaza Strip cannot be tolerated, and the Palestinian resistance front cannot allow the situation to continue as it is,” they stressed in a joint statement.
Hamas and Islamic Jihad underlined the need “to achieve national Palestinian unity, on the basis of partnership, restructure and development of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), and an agreement on a national struggle campaign [against Israel].”
The resistance groups also expressed their opposition to the Tel Aviv regime’s flagrant violations of Palestinian prisoners’ rights, and cautioned Israeli authorities against the grave consequences of their practices.