Doha, Feb 8, 2026 (AFP) - Top Hamas leader rejects disarmament or 'foreign rule'

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A senior Hamas leader said Sunday that the Palestinian Islamist movement would not surrender its weapons nor accept foreign intervention in Gaza, pushing back against US and Israeli demands. "Criminalising the resistance, its weapons, and those who carried it out is something we should not accept," Khaled Meshal said at a conference in Doha. "As long as there is occupation, there is resistance. Resistance is a right of peoples under occupation ........

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