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Gaza, Palestine Affairs

Haneyya delivers first speech as Hamas’s leader

NOVANEWS The newly-elected head of Hamas’s political bureau, Ismail Haneyya, delivered on Wednesday his first speech since taking office in which he addressed all Palestinian issues. Held in Gaza city, the speech was attended by a large number of officials from different Palestinian factions as well as other political, media and religious figures. Haneyya stressed that the escalation waged against the Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails must stop, describing the administrative detention policy targeting both Palestinian citizens and MPs in the occupied West Bank as “terrorism”. He expressed his pride of the Palestinian resistance, especially the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas Movement, and denounced labeling it as a form of terrorism, explaining that the real terrorism is...