Hamas: Israel cannot legitimize occupation of Palestine via elections

The Palestinian Islamic resistance movement, Hamas, says the apartheid Israeli regime is an occupying force in its entirety, and that it cannot give legitimacy to its occupation of the Palestinian territories by staging elections.

In an interview with al-Ahed news, Abdul Latif al-Qanou, a Hamas Spokesman, highlighted rift and discord in the Tel Aviv regime’s internal circle, saying the Gaza-based resistance movement does not count on the outcome of the new elections, which are the fifth of their kind in less than four years.

The official said the entire Israeli regime, including its social, political and security components, is considered an occupying entity, and that all parties in Tel Aviv are hostile to the Palestinian nation.

Elections cannot legitimize the Israeli occupation, he said.

The Palestinian people, Qanou added, have “the right of resistance against the Zionist occupation which kills them.”

The elections, which kicked off on Tuesday, are a fifth attempt by Israel in only four years to end a paralyzing political stalemate in Tel Aviv, amid deep political divisions among the regime’s political parties that have prevented them from forming an effective coalition cabinet since 2019.

Israel’s former scandal-hit Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is bidding for his right-wing Likud Party’s comeback in the race so that he can return to the post, despite all the corruption charges gripping him.

The final network polls provided by the Israeli regime before the November 1 elections have all predicted that Likud will fall just short of a majority in the 120-seat Knesset.

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