Saudi Arabia is provoking Israel: Hamas alleges

The Dhaka Times Desk Hamas strongly condemned the statement made by Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir, declaring the Palestinian Islamic resistance movement Hamas 'extremist'. The organization believes that Saudi Arabia is provoking Israel.

Hamas said in a statement that the foreign minister of Saudi Arabia made such a statement with the aim of misleading public opinion and undermining the legitimate resistance struggle of the Palestinian people against Israel.

The statement also said that such statements would incite Zionist Israel to carry out more massacres against the Palestinian people.

Note that last Friday, Adel al-Zubayr, in a speech given to the European Parliament in Brussels, referred to Hamas as "extremists" and claimed that Qatar had stopped supporting the Palestinian movement. Because of this, the government offices in Gaza have been handed over to the Palestinian government led by the Fatah movement.

Zubair made the claim as government offices in Gaza were handed over under a peace deal signed between Fatah and Hamas in the Egyptian capital Cairo last year; Not because of Qatar's withdrawal of support.

In October 2017, Hamas and Fatah agreed to end their decade-long standoff.

The agreement signed in Cairo states that the Fatah-led Palestinian government will take control of the West Bank as well as the Gaza Strip.

It should be noted that the enmity between Hamas and Fatah began after Hamas won the Palestinian parliamentary elections in 2006. Hamas took sole control of the Gaza Strip in 2007 after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas wrongfully ousted elected Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh.