Witkoff’s visit to GHF site a ‘staged show’, says Hamas
US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff’s visit to one of the aid distribution sites run by the notorious US- and Israeli-backed GHF yesterday was nothing more than “a premeditated staged show” designed to mislead public opinion and “polish the image” of the Israeli military, Hamas has said in a statement.
The armed group said the visit was also designed to provide “political cover” for Israel’s “starvation campaign and continued systematic killing of defenceless children and civilians in the Gaza Strip”.
“Witkoff’s misleading statements, coupled with the dissemination of targeted propaganda images that attempted to portray the peaceful distribution of aid, are belied by the facts on the ground, where more than 1,300 innocent starving people have been killed by the bullets of the occupation army and employees of the inhumane GHF,” it said.
Hamas says won’t disarm until Palestinian state established
In a short statement issued via Telegram, the Palestinian group says that its weapons and its “resistance” activities are “national and legal entitlements as long as the [Israeli] occupation persists”.
“They cannot be relinquished except by fully restoring our national rights, foremost of which is the establishment of the independent Palestinian state with full sovereignty and its capital Jerusalem”, the statement concludes.
Hamas said that this statement was in response to comments by US envoy Steve Witkoff saying that Hamas had discussed a willingness to disarm during negotiations for a ceasefire.
