Hamas: Netanyahu's statements about Palestinian state confirm Israeli fascism

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says statements by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regarding the occupying regime’s plans to eliminate the Palestinian people’s aspirations for an independent state confirm Israel's “fascist” nature.

Hamas made the remarks in a press statement released on the resistance movement’s official website on Monday after Netanyahu said in a closed meeting of the Knesset's foreign affairs committee that Israel was “preparing for the day” after Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

When asked by an Israeli lawmaker about the Palestinian people’s goal for establishing an independent state for themselves, Netanyahu stressed in a single sentence, "We need to eliminate their aspirations for a state."

The Israeli prime minister’s stance “clearly reaffirms the goals of the fascist entity based on the idea of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and settler-colonialism,” Hamas said.

“Netanyahu's statements require the leadership of the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization to reconsider their commitments to the occupation and the path of settlement and futile negotiations, and to stop all forms of cooperation and security coordination with it,” the resistance movement added.

Hamas called for strengthening the national position against the occupation, demanding that the Arab countries boycott the Israeli regime and end all forms of normalization, which has “encouraged the occupation authorities to commit further atrocities, bloodshed, land grab, and desecration of sanctities.”

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