Haniyeh says Hamas won’t accept Israel
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Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh told thousands of Iranians at Tehran University that his government would never recognize Israel and would continue to fight for the “liberation of Jerusalem.”
Making his first visit abroad since the militant group Hamas took power in March, Haniyeh criticized the U.S. for demanding that Hamas recognize Israel as a basis for renewed peace talks and before international aid to the Palestinians resumes.
Haniyeh called Iran, a longtime ally of Hamas, the Palestinians’ “strategic depth” because they are bound together in their fight against Israel.
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