Tag: Israeli annexation plan

GAZA CITY, Palestine : Hamas on Thursday said Palestinian resistance groups consider the Israeli plan to annex large areas of the occupied West Bank as a "declaration of war against the Palestinian people." Abu Obeida, spokesman for the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the group's military wing, pledged in a video message that they will remain a "loyal guard in defending the Palestinian people and their lands and holy sites." As July 1, the date announced by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to declare Israel's sovereignty over the West Bank and Jordan Valley, approaches,...