Senior Hamas figure Osama Hamdan on Tuesday categorically rejected any proposal to demilitarize Gaza or disarm the organization, calling such demands “illogical.” In an interview with Al-Masirah, a channel affiliated with the Houthis, Hamdan explained why Israeli and Western calls for demilitarization are unacceptable to Hamas.
Hamdan attacked the Israeli–American demand to strip the “resistance” of its weapons, arguing it lacks strategic and national logic. “The logic of disarmament is fundamentally unacceptable, and we cannot even discuss it. These weapons are weapons of resistance, and their reason for existence is the occupation,” he said.
He claimed the push for demilitarization is driven by broader political goals, not security concerns. “Disarming the resistance opens the door to the swallowing of most of the Arab nation’s lands, leaving Israel as the sole armed power in the region,” he asserted.
According to Hamdan, there is now a “Palestinian national consensus” against surrendering weapons. He added that if Israel failed to disarm Hamas by force after more than two years of fighting, no external force would succeed either: “The enemy won’t achieve this even in a hundred years.”