Hamas denounces Sudan’s normalization with Israel

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has denounced Sudan’s current junta for its decision to follow suit amid normalization of relations between certain Persian Gulf Arab countries and the Israeli regime.

Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the Hamas political bureau, said on Monday that Sudan’s deal was “a political aberration that reflects the nature of the schism between the [Arab] rulers and the nation’s conscience and history.”

The Hamas official said the deal does not reflect the Sudanese nation’s historical standing with regard to the Palestinian cause.

“The regional map is drawn only by the peoples who are adherent to their constants and our inalienable rights in Palestine and refuse to recognize the usurping Zionist entity that will not have a future at the expense of our people’s rights on their homeland Palestine.”

On Friday, US President Donald Trump said Israel and Sudan had opened economic ties as a pathway toward normalized relations.

He announced the deal in the Oval Office while on a conference call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and its Sovereign Council chief General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan.

As part of the agreement, Trump took steps to remove Sudan from a US government list of countries ‘promoting terrorism.’

The streets of Khartoum, Sudan’s capital, have hosted crowds of angry people protesting the deal and urging General Burhan to reverse track.

Angry Sudanese rally to condemn normalization with Israel

Angry Sudanese protesters have taken to the streets to condemn the current junta

Some Sudanese political parties have also lined up to declare their outright rejection of the agreement.

Acting Foreign Minister Omar Gamareldin, however, said on Friday the accord will depend on approval from its yet-to-be formed legislative council. It is unclear when the assembly will be formed under a power-sharing deal between the country’s military and civilians.

Friday’s deal makes Sudan the third Arab country to normalize relations with Israel in the past two months, after the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain.

Sudan's normalization with Israel great betrayal: Palestine official

Palestinians denounce Sudan

In mid-September, Trump presided over the signing of the pacts between Tel Aviv, Abu Dhabi and Manama. During a ceremony at the White House, Trump said “five or six” other countries were close to making similar agreements with Israel.

Israeli officials say Oman is likely the next Arab country to normalize ties. 

Censuring Macron the President

Elsewhere in his remarks, Haniyeh also lambasted President Emmanuel Macron of France for promoting Islamophobia after he criticized Islam and defended the publication of defamatory cartoons of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).

Such a behavior, the Hamas leader said, “undermines the meanings of tolerance and coexistence between the world’s peoples and nations.”

Last week, an 18-year-old assailant beheaded a French history teacher outside his school in a Paris suburb. The teacher had raised controversy and provoked anger over showing the defamatory cartoons.

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