By Nour Abu Aisha
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – A senior Hamas leader has vowed to bring down any proposed peace plan that does not meet Palestinian demands.
“Any project rejected by the Palestinian people will not pass, ” Moussa Abu Marzouk said on Twitter on Saturday.
He was commenting on media reports about the U.S.-proposed “Deal of the Century” — ostensibly aimed at resolving the decades-long Israel-Palestine conflict.
Abu Marzouk said the Palestinian people have never united around any project except the “resistance”.
The term “Deal of the Century ” refers to a back-channel U.S. plan to decisively settle the perennial Palestine-Israel dispute.
Last month, Anadolu Agency revealed details of the plan, which calls for annexing the whole city of Jerusalem and major settlement blocs to Israel in return for establishing a demilitarized Palestinian state.
The plan also calls for making the 12,000-dweller West Bank village of Abu Dis, which borders Jerusalem, as the capital of a future Palestinian state instead of East Jerusalem, occupied by Israel in 1967, which Palestinians hope that the city might eventually serve as the capital of a Palestinian state.
The proposed plan also calls for the recognition of Israel as a Jewish state, keeping territorial water and airspace under Israeli control and reaching a “just solution” to the issue of Palestinian refugees.
The plan came amid a worldwide outcry over a decision by U.S. President Donald Trump last month to officially recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
