Khaled Meshaal says surrendering weapons will 'remove the soul' from the Palestinian group as ceasefire momentum slips.
Khaled Meshaal tells Al Jazeera surrendering weapons will ‘remove the soul’ from the Palestinian group as ceasefire momentum slips.
By Faisal Ali
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Hamas’s political leader outside Gaza, Khaled Meshaal, has offered assurances that the group would take measures to curb any future attacks on Israel from the besieged Palestinian enclave, but added that surrendering its weapons would be like “removing the soul” from the group.
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