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Hamas is looking to focus its energies on popular resistance without giving up its right to wage armed struggle against Israel, the Islamist movement's leader Khaled Meshaal told AFP in an interview.
"Every people has the right to fight against occupation in every way, with weapons or otherwise. But at the moment, we want to cooperate with the popular resistance," the group's Damascus-based leader said in the interview late on Thursday.
"We believe in armed resistance but popular resistance is a programme which is common to all the factions," he said.
The Islamist movement, which rules the Gaza Strip, has long called for the destruction of the Jewish state and has fiercely defended its right to wage a bloody armed struggle to end the occupation.
"The threats by Netanyahu's government and its security cabinet don't scare us but confirms that we are heading in the right direction," he said
Hamas to focus on popular resistance: Meshaal - Yahoo! News
"Every people has the right to fight against occupation in every way, with weapons or otherwise. But at the moment, we want to cooperate with the popular resistance," the group's Damascus-based leader said in the interview late on Thursday.
"We believe in armed resistance but popular resistance is a programme which is common to all the factions," he said.
The Islamist movement, which rules the Gaza Strip, has long called for the destruction of the Jewish state and has fiercely defended its right to wage a bloody armed struggle to end the occupation.
"The threats by Netanyahu's government and its security cabinet don't scare us but confirms that we are heading in the right direction," he said
Hamas to focus on popular resistance: Meshaal - Yahoo! News