According to the Palestine’s Ma’an News Agency, Hamas, in its new charter “accepted 1967 borders for future Palestinian state.”
Hamas in its new political document presented an acceptance of a Palestinian state along the 1967 'Green Line' border, while rejecting any legitimacy of “the Zionist entity,” said the report.
“Hamas rejects any alternative to the full and complete liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea.
“However, without compromising its rejection of the Zionist entity and without relinquishing any Palestinian rights, Hamas considers the establishment of a fully sovereign and independent Palestinian state, with Jerusalem as its capital along the lines of the 4th of June 1967, with the return of the refugees and the displaced to their homes from which they were expelled, to be a formula of national consensus,” the charter read.
The charter went on to emphasize the importance of Jerusalem as the Palestinian state’s capital and the importance of the Al-Aqsa Mosque to Palestinians and Muslims, saying that “the occupation’s plots, measures and attempts to judaize Al-Aqsa and divide it are null, void and illegitimate.”
“The Zionist project is a racist, aggressive, colonial and expansionist project based on seizing the properties of others,” the charter said, in reference to the Zionist Israel adding that the Zionist project “is hostile to the Palestinian people and to their aspiration for freedom, liberation, return and self-determination.”
Hamas maintained the legitimacy of armed resistance against the occupation, thought it accepted other forms of nonviolent resistance as well, saying that “managing resistance, in terms of escalation or de-escalation, or in terms of diversifying the means and methods, is an integral part of the process of managing the conflict.”
Hamas charter also affirmed that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict “is with the Zionist project not with the Jews because of their religion.”
“Hamas does not wage a struggle against the Jews because they are Jewish but wages a struggle against the Zionists who occupy Palestine.
“Yet, it is the Zionists who constantly identify Judaism and the Jews with their own colonial project and illegal entity,” the charter said.
“Hamas affirms that the role of the Palestinian Authority (PA) should be to serve the Palestinian people and safeguard their security, their rights and their national project,” the charter said, while simultaneously calling for free and fair national elections.
The PA announced the elections at the end of January would be scheduled in both the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
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Tehran, May 2, IRNA - Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) outlined Monday evening its new political document consisting of 42 articles.
