A senior member of Hamas in Lebanon fired shots today Monday against Mahmoud Abbas for dosage, declaring that the Palestinian organization will remain in the Gaza Strip and will not accept a “Vichy government” in the pocket it controls.

Israel has announced that the the aim of his war in Gaza is to “annihilate Hamas”, in response to the October 7 attacks on Israeli soil that killed at least 1,400 people, mostly civilians. Israeli bombardment of Gaza has killed at least 10,000 people, mostly civilians, according to Hamas.

“To those who believe that Hamas will disappear (I say that) it will remain firmly in the consciousness (…) of our people and no power in the world will be able to eliminate or marginalize it” said Osama Hamdan, the head of Hamas in Lebanon, at a press conference he gave.

“Our people will not allow the US impose their plans aimed at setting up a government that suits them and the occupier (ie Israel) and our people will not accept a new Vichy government,” he continued, referring to the pro-Nazi regime in occupied France during World War II.

Last Tuesday, speaking to Congress, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said that “at some point” the Palestinian Authority would have to regain control of the Gaza Strip and that third parties could potentially play a role during that process. transitional period. “The Gaza Strip is an integral part of the state of Palestine,” Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Sunday. The Palestinian Authority was expelled from Gaza in 2007.

The last Palestinian elections in Gaza were held in 2006 and were won by Hamas. Unable to exercise real power despite its victory, the Islamist group forcibly brought the Gaza Strip under its control the following year, ousting the Palestinian Authority’s security services. Israel occupied the enclave in 1967 and withdrew from it in 2005.

“In Ramallah in the West Bank, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken told the Palestinian Authority, sworn enemies of Hamas, that they could play a key role in Gaza once it is cleared of Hamas in a remarkably trivial intervention. THE Palestinian Authority is already considered a “partner government” by many Palestinians. The idea that he could return to power in Gaza ‘on the back’ of Israeli tanks it will seem naive and absurd to them,” comments Sky News.