Hamas has warned Israel against any attempts to "re-engineer" the Gaza Strip by displacing the Palestinians.
Asserting in a statement on its 38th anniversary Sunday, the resistance group said that only the Palestinian people have the right to choose their leaders and govern their territory.
It described achieving a national consensus on a unified Palestinian strategy as "the only way to confront the plans of the (Israeli) occupation and its supporters, which aim to liquidate our national cause and prevent the establishment of our independent state with East Jerusalem as its capital."
Over the course of two years of genocidal war in the Gaza Strip, "the (Israeli) occupation has achieved nothing but the criminal targeting of unarmed civilians," Hamas said.
"The systematic and well-documented crimes of the Zionist enemy over the two years of genocide and starvation in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and occupied Jerusalem will not lapse with time," it added, urging the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court to continue their legal proceedings and ensure Israeli leaders are held accountable for their crimes since October 2023.
