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Published 20 Dec, 2023 11:54am

Hamas’s political faction, Palestinian rivals discuss post-conflict Gaza: report

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reports that Hamas’s political leaders have been in discussions with their Palestinian rivals about a post-conflict future for Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

Husam Badran, a member of Hamas’s Doha-based political bureau, spoke to the WSJ on the outskirts of the Qatari capital.

“We don’t fight just because we want to fight. We are not partisans of a zero-sum game,” he said in the interview.

“We want the war to end,” he added. “We want to establish a Palestinian state in Gaza, the West Bank and Jerusalem.”

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