Hamas rules out any compromise with Israel, says occupying regime will pay price for its crimes

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has stressed that the issue of Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood can’t be compromised, warning Israel that it will pay the price for its “crimes” in the occupied city of al-Quds.

Haron Nasser al-Din, a member of the political bureau of Hamas, made the remarks in a statement on Tuesday that was issued after Palestinian families facing the threat of forced eviction from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah rejected a compromise proposed by the Israeli supreme court that would eventually serve the interest of Israeli settlers.

The Israeli attempt to gradually transfer the ownership of the lands of Sheikh Jarrah is “a scam aimed to gradually take control of the neighborhoods of al-Quds City and its real estate.”

The official stressed the Hamas movement’s rejection of “any form of compromise on the homes threatened with seizure in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood,” noting that the Israeli judiciary is part of the Israeli occupying regime’s security system that facilitates the seizure of the lands and homes of al-Quds by settlers.

Four Palestinian families facing the threat of forced eviction from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah on Tuesday rejected the Israeli court’s proposal that would enable Israeli settlers to eventually confiscate their land in 15 years.

Under the proposal, the four families would be offered “protected tenancy status” for a 15-year period in return for accepting that their land belongs to the Israeli Nahlat Shimon settler organization.

Sheikh Jarrah families facing eviction threat reject Israel court’s compromise deal

Palestinian families facing expulsion from their homes in the East al-Quds neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah reject an Israeli court

Nasser al-Din stated, “Our people won’t accept being evicted from their homes once again.”

He warned the Israeli regime that it would “pay the price for its crimes in al-Quds,” stressing, “We will continue the liberation battle until the occupation and settlers are evicted and all refugees and displaced people return to their homes.”

“The logic of dealing with the occupation is resistance until it ends,” he added.

The Israeli regime’s plans to force a number of Palestinian families out of their homes at the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East al-Quds and Israeli violent raids on worshippers at al-Aqsa Mosque prompted Palestinian retaliation that was followed by a brutal Israeli bombing campaign against the besieged Gaza Strip on May 10.

About 260 Palestinians were killed in the Israeli offensive.

In response, Palestinian resistance movements, chief among them Hamas, launched Operation al-Quds Sword and fired more than 4,000 rockets and missiles into the occupied territories, killing 12 Israelis.

Apparently caught off guard by the unprecedented barrage of rockets from Gaza, Israel announced a unilateral ceasefire on May 21, which Palestinian resistance movements accepted with Egyptian mediation.

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