En Hamas-leder sier at Hamas er mot nasjonsfremstøtet i FN fordi det vil være en stat basert på Gaza og Vestbredden, og ikke hele Palestina, dvs dagens Israel, som er Hamas’ krav.

Derfor støtter ikke søknaden som president Mahmoud Abbas vil overlevere FN.

Salah Al-Bardaweel told the workshop that the consequence of getting the UN to recognize a Palestinian state would also be recognition of Israel’s boundaries.

«Going to the UN draws the borders of Israel, which was established on stolen lands and still has no borders,» he said.

Abbas’ UN bid, he explained, would mean that the Palestinian state would exist only in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the territories captured by Israel in the 1967 war, and not in all of historic Palestine, as Hamas wants.

Moreover, he said, once a Palestinian state is ratified, «the Palestinian resistance won’t be allowed to fire one single gunshot at the Israeli occupation.»

Hamas opposes ‘tactical’ Palestinian statehood bid at UN
Senior leader of the Islamist movement says his group rejects Abbas’ UN bid since it would create a state only in West Bank and Gaza and not in all of historic Palestine.