By Al Mayadeen English, 6 December 2025
Hamas’s Khaled Meshaal urges rejection of normalization with “Israel,” defends resistance, and calls for Palestinian unity at a conference in Istanbul.
Speaking at the “Covenant to al-Quds: Towards Renewing the Nation’s Will in the Face of Genocide and Annihilation” conference held in Istanbul, Khaled Meshaal, head of Hamas’s diaspora office, emphasized the absolute rejection of all forms of normalization and ties with what he called the criminal Israeli entity.
He urged Arab and Islamic nations to hold firm against normalization, stressing that any engagement with “Israel” undermines the Palestinian cause and legitimizes occupation.
Meshaal reaffirmed the centrality of protecting the resistance project and its arms, declaring that the Resistance and its dignity are inseparable from the identity and will of the nation. He called for continued commitment to liberating prisoners and detainees held in occupation prisons, viewing their freedom as a collective responsibility.
The Hamas official stressed that victory for the Palestinian people cannot be achieved without unity and partnership, rejecting any monopolization of decision-making and national authority, asserting that the Palestinian people alone must govern themselves, free from external guardianship, whether in Gaza or the West Bank.
Meshaal warned of the growing threat of Judaization, settlement expansion, and forced displacement in the occupied West Bank. He described these policies as part of a broader effort by “Israel” to subjugate the region to its political and geographic agenda, including attempts to re-engineer Gaza’s territorial status.
He pointed to a “real and imminent danger” facing occupied al-Quds, al-Aqsa Mosque, and both Islamic and Christian holy sites across Palestine.
In a strong message to collaborators, Meshaal declared that “the fate
that befell the agent Yasser Abu Shabab is the inevitable fate of
anyone who betrays his people and his homeland.” The statement was a
clear warning against collaboration with the occupation and a
reaffirmation of the movement’s uncompromising stance on national
loyalty.
Escalations in West Bank, aggression against Gaza
Meshaal’s statement comes amid raids in the West Bank and ongoing aggression against the Gaza Strip.
Several Palestinian citizens were injured on Saturday during confrontations with Israeli occupation forces amid a wave of IOF raids across the occupied West Bank. Confrontations were particularly intense in Jenin, where local Resistance fighters responded to the Israeli incursion with explosive devices.
In Beit Ummar, north of al-Khalil, violent confrontations broke out following an incursion by the occupation forces. Press sources confirmed that the use of explosives by Resistance fighters during the confrontations, amid several reported injuries, with some of the wounded transferred to hospitals for treatment.
During the early hours of Saturday, the occupation forces detained four Palestinian citizens in the village of Nabi Saleh, northwest of Ramallah, during a pre-dawn raid. Simultaneously, occupation troops raided a commercial shop in the suburb of Iktaba, east of Tulkarm, amid a wider military operation in the area.
In Gaza, the Israeli occupation once again breached the ceasefire on Saturday, carrying out artillery bombardments, airstrikes, and live fire across several areas of the Strip.
Israeli artillery targeted areas east of Khan Younis, inside zones currently occupied by the IOF, while warplanes struck other locations on the city’s eastern outskirts. Aircraft and armored units opened fire northeast of the al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, while helicopter fire was reported east of Khan Younis.
Al Mayadeen’s correspondent in Gaza reported that Israeli forces are pressing ahead with the demolition of remaining civilian homes behind the “Yellow Line,” highlighting that the Shuja’iyya neighborhood east of Gaza City has now been entirely razed by occupation forces over nearly two years of genocidal warfare.
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