The terrorist group Hamas appears to be internally torn. After more than two months of war in the Gaza Strip, Islamist leaders are divided over whether to continue the fight, the Wall Street Journal reports.
As Hamas’s military wing, led by Yahya Sinwar, continues to fight with the Israeli army, representatives of Hamas’s political wing are talking about an end to the war and with Palestinian rivals about the aftermath, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. .
“We want the war to end,” Husam Badran, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, told the newspaper in the Qatari capital Doha.
Sinwar continues to fight
“We don’t fight just because we want to fight. We are not in favor of a zero-sum game,” Badran said. While Hamas’s Qatar-based political leadership is now in talks with its Palestinian rivals over how to govern the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank after the end of the war, the militant wing under Sinwar continues to wage war in Gaza. Such negotiations risked turning into a conflict with Sinwar’s militant wing, they said.
“We want to establish a Palestinian state in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and Jerusalem,” Badran told the newspaper. The Hamas leader’s comments marked a major turnaround since October 7, when the militant wing carried out a massacre in Israel.
US: future without Hamas
For the post-Gaza war period, the US relies on a revived and transformed Palestinian Authority (PA) led by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Under these plans, the PA, which rules the West Bank, must also take back control of the Gaza Strip. Israel rejects this and accuses the country of supporting terror. Hamas forcibly expelled the autonomous authority from the coastal strip in 2007.
Abbas leads the PA and the secular Fatah faction within the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Fatah and Hamas are the two largest Palestinian organizations – and bitter rivals. Some representatives of the Fatah party expressed their understanding of Hamas’s terrorist attack in Israel. Reconciliation talks have been going on between the two groups for years.
Recent talks between the political leadership of Hamas and Fatah have led to tensions with Sinwar, the report said. He believes that the war is not yet lost. It is still too early for a compromise.
Source: Krone
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