Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“Hamas’s political leader abroad, Khaled Meshaal, has rejected calls to disarm Palestinian factions in Gaza, arguing that stripping weapons from an occupied people would turn them into ‘an easy victim to be eliminated.’ … In the second phase of a US-mediated ‘ceasefire’ deal between Israel and Hamas, agreed in October last year, Washington says it will tackle the disarmament of Hamas and the deployment of an international peacekeeping force. But Israel continues to carry out near-daily deadly attacks across Gaza in violation of the ‘ceasefire’ and has so far refused to withdraw from the so-called ‘Yellow Line’ in eastern Gaza, an informal boundary separating more than half of the territory that remains under Israeli military control from the rest of the Strip.” (02/08/26)