Hamas represents the “vast majority of the Palestinian people” and therefore it is an illusion that it would just disappear, Hamas official Basem Naim says.
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00:00If this ceasefire does hold, what do you envisage Hamas's role to be in a post-war Gaza?
00:08And if the international community insists that Hamas plays no political role in order
00:15to conduct reconstruction, will Hamas leave?
00:20Or relinquish power, I should say?
00:22Look, two things.
00:25First of all, Hamas is not an armed group.
00:29Hamas is not a military movement.
00:31Hamas is a big political movement with a military wing.
00:36And we are an inherent part of the Palestinian social fabric.
00:40We have military activities, but we have also educational activities, social activities,
00:47and all other activities.
00:50And we are representing the vast majority of Palestinian people.
00:53And this has been proven through elections and through different tools, polls, and so
00:59on.
01:00Therefore, that anyone who is dreaming that Hamas will disappear, suddenly this is illusions.