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Hamas refused $15B in US aid over demand it disarms, leader says

Ismail Haniyeh says Washington's offer for an aid package to the Gaza Strip was "categorically declined." Hamas has consistently asserted it will never relinquish its sizable arsenal. 

by  Daniel Siryoti
Published on  07-28-2020 09:28
Last modified: 07-28-2020 09:33
Just what is Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh up to?AFP/Said Khatib

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh | File photo: AFP/Said Khatib

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Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said Monday that his organization recently turned down a substantial aid package from the United States because it would have had to lay down its weapons.

Speaking with a Qatari news outlet, Haniyeh claimed that as part of US President Donald Trump's Middle East peace plan, Washington offered to give Hamas $15 billion in aid if it would agree to disarm.

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The offer was "categorically declined," Haniyeh said.

Hamas has consistently asserted that it will never relinquish its sizable arsenal of weapons, rockets, and missiles.

Designated as a terrorist group by the EU, ‎US, Israel, and several other countries, Hamas ousted PA ‎President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah-led government from ‎the ‎Gaza Strip in a military coup in 2007, ‎‎‎effectively ‎splitting the Palestinian areas into two ‎‎political ‎‎entities.

All efforts made over the past ‎‎decade to ‎‎promote a reconciliation between the rival ‎‎Palestinian factions – the latest ‎‎brokered by Egypt ‎‎in late 2017 – have failed.

Haniyeh further claimed that plans to build air and seaports in Gaza were foiled by the Palestinian Authority and several Arab countries.

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