In a statement, Hamas said that Mansour’s remarks were “a clear violation of the Palestinian national consensus” and “a clear endorsement of the Jewish nation-state law” that was approved by the Knesset in 2018.

It also condemned the remarks as “a serious inclination towards the positions of the extremist Zionist right wing.”

“Our Palestinian people from all spectra will remain steadfast on their historical land —refusing to give up an inch of it, defending its Arab and Islamic identity and resisting the Zionist presence on its soil,” Hamas said. (ILKHA)