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A senior Hamas official suggests that the militia may recognize the State of Israel

A senior Hamas official suggested on Thursday that the Palestinian movement could take the step of recognizing the State of Israel to help end the ongoing war in Gaza and end the division of Palestinian authorities. Since 2007, Gaza has been controlled by Hamas, a group considered terrorist by the United States and the European Union, after a short civil war with the Palestinian Authority, led by Mahmoud Abbas, which rules the West Bank.

In statements by L to the screen“Official directives must be followed,” says Musa Abu Marzouk, a Middle East broker founded by an Arab-American businessman based in the United States, considered the second-in-command in the political arm of Hamas and residing in Qatar. The official guideline is that the PLO has recognized the State of Israel.” The Palestine Liberation Organization is the internationally recognized organization that includes most Palestinian organizations, including Fatah, which heads the Palestinian Authority, with the exception of Hamas and Islamic Jihad. In 1993, under the leadership of Yasser Arafat, the historic Palestinian leader who negotiated the Oslo Accords, he recognized the existence of the State of Israel and renounced terrorism as a means of achieving Palestinian statehood. In return, Israel recognized the Palestine Liberation Organization as an interlocutor and representative of the Palestinian people.

Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, has so far refused to recognize the State of Israel, and in its 1988 founding charter set as its goal its “destruction” and the creation of a Palestinian state on the lands of historic Palestine. However, the Islamic Group presented a new political platform in 2017 in which it accepted the idea of ​​establishing the State of Palestine on the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital, as envisioned in the two-state solution, which the United States supports. Nations.

Abu Marzouk’s statements come more than two months after the Israeli military attack on Gaza, following the attacks carried out by Hamas on October 7 against southern Israel, which left about 1,200 people dead and about 240 kidnapped, according to the tally provided by the Israeli authorities. The authorities of the Gaza Strip, which is controlled by Hamas, have so far recorded more than 18,600 dead and 50,500 wounded, in addition to more than 260 Palestinians killed in security forces operations and settler attacks in the West Bank and Jerusalem.