Hamas welcomes France’s decision to recognize State of Palestine

In a statement last night, Hamas described the French decision as a “positive step” and a “move in the right direction towards achieving justice for the oppressed Palestinian people.”

Hamas said this step “supports the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination and the establishment of their independent Palestinian state over all their occupied territories with Al-Quds as its capital.”

Hamas considered this French position as an “important political development that reflects the growing international conviction in the justice of the Palestinian cause and the (Israeli) occupation’s failure to distort the facts.”

Hamas called on all countries, particularly those in Europe, to follow France’s example and fully acknowledge the Palestinian people’s national rights.

The Movement stressed that such steps represent political and moral pressure on Zionist regime, which persists in its crimes, aggression and genocidal war and starvation against the Palestinians in Gaza, and its occupation and settlement expansion in the West Bank and Al-Quds.