A senior Hamas official has called for an immediate end to Israel's war against the group in the Gaza Strip and a plan to achieve Palestinian statehood in remarks shared with Newsweek in the wake of former President Donald Trump's election victory.
A Palestinian man drives his motorbike past a mural depicting former President and current President-elect Donald Trump on Israel's separation wall in Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank on November 5, 2024.
A Palestinian man drives his motorbike past a mural depicting former President and current President-elect Donald Trump on Israel's separation wall in Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank on November 5, 2024.
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Abbas expressed "his aspiration to work with President Trump for peace and security in the region" and stressed "the commitment of our people to seek freedom, self-determination and statehood, in accordance with international law," according to a statement published by the Palestine News and Information Agency (WAFA).
Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who leads the West Bank-based government that rivals the Gaza-based Hamas, also congratulated Trump on his election victory Wednesday.
Both Hamas and Abbas had frequently condemned Trump's Middle East measures while he was in office, including his 2018 decision to move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to the disputed city of Jerusalem and his 2020 plan to end the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
https://www.newsweek.com/hamas-calls-immediate-end-war-after-trump-election-win-1981571
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