Senior Hamas officer openly rejects two-state solution, calls for Israel’s demise

A senior Hamas official has openly admitted that his terror group will never accept a two-state solution — and boasted that its Oct. 7 attack proved it is possible to expand the Palestinian territory and wipe out Israel.

Khaled Mashal — a key figure helping to run the terror organization from Qatar — claimed in a videotaped interview with Kuwaiti podcaster Amar Taki last week that Gazans and Israelis cannot co-exist, a sentiment he said was made all too clear after Oct. 7.

“I would like to say two things about the two-state solution. First, we have nothing to do with the two-state solution,” the 67-year-old terrorist said in a translation provided by MEMRI TV. “We reject this notion, because it means you would get a promise for a [Palestinian] state, yet you are required to recognize the legitimacy of the other state, which is the Zionist entity.

“This is unacceptable,” he added. “We demand to be liberated, to get rid of the occupation and to have our independence and our state.”

Khaled Mashal, a senior Hamas official, touted his terror group’s Oct. 7 massacre as the first step in erasing Israel.

An Israeli soldier walks by a home destroyed in the Oct. 7 attack in Kibbutz Be’eri. AP

Mashal also acknowledged that Hamas was never an organization that would just govern Gaza after it came to power in 2007 but one that would destroy the Jewish state.

The Hamas leader said his group’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel, which claimed the lives of more than 1,200 people, mainly civilians, was a clear indicator that his group could do just that.

“I believe that the dream and the hope for Palestine from the river to the sea and from the north to the south has been renewed,” he said, referencing a chant that calls for the erasure of Israel. “This has also become a slogan chanted in the US and in Western capital cities by the American and Western public.

The Oct. 7 attacks saw more than 1,200 people killed and around 240 others kidnapped. AP

The families of those who remain captive in Gaza have called for a cease-fire to free their loved ones. REUTERS

“The Palestinian consensus — or almost a consensus — is that we will not give up on our right to Palestine in its entirety, from the [Jordan] river to the [Mediterranean] sea, and from Rosh HaNikra to Eilat or the Gulf of Aqaba,” Mashal added.

“I believe that Oct. 7 has enhanced this conviction, has narrowed the disagreements and has turned the idea of liberating Palestine from the river to the sea into a realistic idea that has already begun,” he said. “It is not something [merely] to be expected or hoped for. It is part of the plan, part of the agenda, and we are standing on its threshold, Allah willing.”

Mashal’s adamant rejection of any peace between Israelis and Hamas suggests that the war in Gaza will not end until one of the groups is destroyed.

Smoke rises over Rafah as the fighting continues in Gaza. AFP via Getty Images

Israel has vowed to eradicate Hamas, laying siege to Gaza and already killing more than 25,000 Palestinians, according to the local terrorist-run health ministry. Whole towns in Gaza have been all but obliterated in the fighting.

Meanwhile, Mashal and his Hamas cronies live in luxury in Qatar while their people languish in poverty and are treated like human shields.

Mashal alone is worth more than $4 billion, according to the Israeli government.

A Palestinian woman cries as she holds an injured child in Gaza, where the death toll reportedly has surpassed 25,000. AP

He especially has been a target of Israeli forces in the past.

In 1997, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tried to assassinate Mashal by having Israel’s elite Mossad agents spray poison on his ear as he walked through the streets of Amman, Jordan.

Then-US President Bill Clinton, desperate to keep Mideast peace talks alive, eventually helped convince Netanyahu to provide the antidote to a dying Mashal, who ended up recovering, according to Time magazine.

Netanyahu himself has repeatedly rejected a two-state solution, most recently denying the possibility for Palestinian sovereignty on Saturday despite America’s push for such an outcome.

“I will not compromise on full Israeli security control over all the territory west of Jordan — and this is contrary to a Palestinian state,” Netanyahu said in a statement.

The prime minister reiterated that the IDF will not stop its airstrikes and advances in Gaza until the more than 130 hostages are freed and Hamas is eradicated.