Middle East: Hamas can never give up Palestinian land

The Islamic Resistance Movement, or Hamas, can never give up any feet of Palestinian land "because it is an Islamic endowment," a Hamas hard-liner minister said on Monday.

In an exclusive interview with Xinhua, Fathi Hammad, the interior minister, added that creating a Palestinian statehood alongside Israel "was only a speech to the media and is not realistic because the Zionist enemy can depart from the occupied Palestinian land only by resistance."

Though Hamas has recently accepted the creation of the Palestinian statehood on the territories Israel occupied in 1967, Hammad reiterated that Hamas can never drop any feet of the historical land of Palestine because it is an Islamic endowment.

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