SpaceWar.com reports: “Hamas’s Gaza chief Khalil al-Hayya said on Sunday that the militant group had a ‘legitimate right’ to hold weapons and that any proposal for the next phases of the Gaza ceasefire must uphold that right.

‘Resistance and its weapons are a legitimate right guaranteed by international law and are linked to the establishment of a Palestinian state,’ Hayya said in a televised address on Hamas-run Al-Aqsa TV.

‘We are open to studying any proposals that preserve this right while guaranteeing the establishment of a Palestinian state.’…”