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<p>BEIRUT, (PIC)&#8211; Hamas international relations official Osama Hamdan has said that Palestine today is in a &#8221;fierce battle on two fronts&#8221;: one front is the continued resistance until the Israeli occupation ends, and the second is to preserve the Palestinians&#8217; unity in the framework of a program to liberate Palestine through resistance, &#8221;the sole way to restore the Palestinians&#8217; rights&#8221;.</p>
<p>In a press statement, Hamdan said Hamas &#8221;firmly believes that resistance is what will humiliate the Zionist entity (Israel) and liberate the land&#8221;, reiterating his party&#8217;s refusal to recognize Israel.</p>
<p>&#8221;We have clearly stated that we would not recognize the [Israeli] occupation. Today we add to that: Israel does not even exist in our lexicon of politics,&#8221; Hamdan said.</p>
<p>The senior Hamas official also addressed the situation in Jerusalem. He said the holy city &#8221;faces Judaization and refuses to surrender to the enemy, despite Zionist colonization and its isolation of [the Palestinians there] with the wall”.</p>
<p>&#8221;The worst of [Israel&#8217;s] aggression is its use of kin to harm the resistance and the Palestinians,&#8221; Hamdan said, adding that the Gaza siege is ongoing but being defeated by the will to live and Israel&#8217;s terror of attempts to break the siege.</p>
<p>That is because &#8221;Israel receded the day the resistance began&#8221;, he said.</p>
<p>Shifting to the Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons, Hamdan declared that they would not be forgotten and that the only solution was a prisoner exchange with Israel, even if it meant capturing more Israeli soldiers.</p>
<p>Hamdan also reiterated Hamas&#8217;s commitment to reconciling with Palestinian factions, saying the reconciliation was made in order to restore the &#8221;Palestinian national project&#8221;, which includes liberating the people and returning the refugees based on the principle of resistance.</p>
<p>&#8221;The issue is not who will head the government or winning the ministry,&#8221; Hamdan said, referring to the current dissension over who will fill the prime ministry post of the interim government, which was agreed upon in the unity deal. &#8221;The issue is of a homeland, a nation, and a people who must be freed; and Jerusalem must be restored. And we have stated and are still convinced that resistance is the option, although some try visualize another image.&#8221;</p>
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