PALESTINIAN resistance group Hamas said Sunday that it does not foresee any positive changes from Israel’s post-Netanyahu government, with other leaders saying they expect the new government to be even worse.
“We aren’t counting on any change in the occupation governments, since they are united on the policy of killing and confiscating Palestinian rights,” Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri wrote on Twitter.
Abu Zuhri attributed former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s failure to form a government to “the successive repercussions of the victory of the resistance” in 11 days of fighting between Hamas and Israel this May.
Under the new coalition agreement between eight Israeli parties, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is to lead the Israeli government for two years followed by centrist Yair Lapid for two more years.
The new government means the end of Netanyahu’s 12-year reign.
‘Not a change government’
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry, for its part, said that
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