Hamas officials said they would neither recognize Israel nor abide by earlier agreements. “We will never recognize Israel,” Nizar Rayyan, a senior Hamas leader in Gaza, told Reuters last Friday after Hamas and Fatah leaders reached a national unity government agreement to end weeks of violence.
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