– Look at what happened in Northern Ireland. Members of the IRA were drawn into the heat, says the foreign minister for the Palestinian Authority, Riad Najeeb al-Maliki to news. The foreign minister for the Palestinian Authority has participated in the Norwegian-led foreign affairs summit in Oslo this week. Maliki is now trying to think ahead, until the guns once die in the bloody war on the Gaza Strip. – Hamas as an idea will continue to exist in the future, says al-Malik. The question is how those who support this idea can be integrated into the system. A Hamas soldier photographed in Gaza on July 23, 2023. Hamas has controlled Gaza since 2007. Photo: AFP We have been in Gaza the whole time Riad Maliki is quite clear that he is looking at the takeover that Hamas made in Gaza in 2007, which a coup. But he emphasizes that the Palestinian Authority has never left the densely populated coastal strip between Israel and the Mediterranean. Perhaps as many as 20,000 people have lost their lives there during major Israeli attacks in the last two months. The Foreign Minister of the Palestinian Authority together with Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide. Photo: Lars Os / news – We have paid the salaries of 60,000 civil servants. It is I who have ensured that people have received both passports and other documents, says al-Malik. Of course, he cannot deny that it is Hamas that has political and military control over Gaza. And that it was Hamas that allowed their military wing to carry out the bloody terrorist attack into Israel on 7 October where at least 1,200 were killed. Give Hamas a second chance – Maybe we should give Hamas a second chance, says Riad Najeeb al-Maliki to news. He therefore singles out the case of Northern Ireland. There, members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) went from being branded as terrorists to becoming part of the peace process. Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Najeeb al-Maliki in conversation with his Norwegian colleague Espen Barth Eide in connection with the Foreign Ministers’ meeting in Oslo on 15 December. On the left in the photo is Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister, Prince Faisal bin Farhan al-Saud Photo: NTB – But that of course means that Hamas gives up its terrorist activity and recognizes the State of Israel’s right to exist, says al-Maliki. He says that the Palestinian Authority, which is based in the occupied West Bank, is ready to take over governance in Gaza as well when there is a ceasefire. – But right now it’s about preventing even more civilian Palestinian lives from being lost, says the Palestinian foreign minister. Riad Najeeb al-Maliki is pleased that the meeting with Nordic and Arab foreign ministers in Oslo this week has given increased support to the demand that the carnage in Gaza must now be stopped.
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