Khalil al-Hayya, a member of Hamas' political bureau: The weevil worm has begun to gnaw at the occupation, and I expect the end of the conflict with it to be near

Khalil al-Hayya, a member of the political bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), predicted that the battle with the Israeli occupation is close to being resolved, and there are indications that suggest this, including that the weevil worm has begun to gnaw at the occupation, whether in its internal structure, in the external incubator, or in the convictions of the Palestinian nation and people.

He said that the Palestinian people are strengthened by their faith in resisting the occupation in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the 48 territories, and the options for settling the conflict have failed miserably, stressing the need for the occupation to gradually exit the West Bank and then from Palestine.

In the episode (2023/3/26) of the "The Interview" program, Part II, Al-Haya touched on Hamas' political project, the reasons for its participation in the 2006 legislative elections, its involvement in the government, and its struggle with power.

He pointed out that Hamas' political project was based on the liberation of the land and the return of man, then the tools of resistance developed, and there was joint national action, but the Oslo agreement came to block the way to the entire national project and to continue the first intifada to reap the fruits.

He said that the Palestinian negotiator was under the illusion that the Palestinian people could obtain their rights, but that this "sinful diligence" blocked the way to continue the intifada, so when they felt their failure in 2000 in their project, they turned a blind eye to the Al-Aqsa intifada, and thus the entire Palestinian people, including the sons of the PA, the sons of Hamas, the sons of Islamic Jihad and others, and made a good development.

Al-Haya regretted that what he called the powerful in power returned to block the intifada, despite the fact that it led to the unconditional exit of the occupation from the Gaza Strip and some West Bank settlements.

Regarding Hamas' return to engage in the institutions of the Oslo Accords, the head of Hamas' Arab and Islamic Relations Office revealed that the movement "did not have a decision to end the authority or confront it, and that this diligence is borne by its owners," stressing that the line of resistance remained in place and did not clash with the authority, although the movement endured harm from it in large periods after 1996.

Political approaches

He said that Hamas went to participate in the 2006 elections because its reading was saying that there was a new attempt to end what was left of the Palestinian spirit, and therefore the decision to participate was to achieve two goals: to protect the resistance program that the general Palestinian people circumvent, and secondly that the PA over its existence from 1994 to 2005 emerged by the factors of sagging and administrative corruption, so it was necessary to participate in the PA to correct and correct the imbalance and administrative corruption, and Hamas entered the PA "neither believing in Oslo nor in harmony with it."

Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh adhered to the principles and frameworks of the movement when Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas assigned him to form the government, and here the problem began between two tracks, the Oslo track and the resistance track represented by Hamas, and the two tracks remained different. The dispute was strategic in political work and direct field work.

Although Hamas maintained its principles and political vision, it went to "political approaches in order to preserve the survival of the resistance march and reach a point of agreement as a national project among the Palestinian factions." Al-Haya stressed that Hamas had worked on political approaches to achieve national reconciliation and launch a common program, but had kept its hands on the trigger.

The movement also maintained in all its stages before and after the 2006 elections the resistance represented by the Qassam Brigades, and also maintained its security system and its organizational, kinetic and advocacy system, and remained untouched and unmixed with government affairs.

The Hamas official also spoke of his career in Palestinian militant work within Hamas.