PLO official: Armed struggle is part of our “methods of struggle”

Palestinian National Council member and political commentator Hamada Farana: "It should be clear to everyone that the three methods of struggle: armed struggle, popular intifada, and negotiations are only tools and not principles. The principle is achieving the goal. These are tools to achieve the goal... Armed struggle is a tool and not a principle... Therefore, the Palestinian decision-maker should use tools that will provide more achievements for the Palestinian people and that will harm and damage the Israeli enemy, the Israeli colony... The Palestinian people in the Palestinian West Bank should adopt civil and non-violent methods of struggle, which embarrass the Israeli enemy and cause the world to stand by the Palestinian people and identify with it, because its struggle is civil and non-violent, and [because it] does not use armed struggle. This does not stem from love or mercy towards the Israeli enemy. However, [one must always] make a comparison [between the three methods of struggle, since] the methods of struggle should bring more achievements to the Palestinian people, and harm and damage the Israeli enemy and not the opposite... The Palestinian people is not capable of delivering one fatal blow to the Israeli enemy, with one decisive knockout, because the Israeli enemy has superiority, while the capabilities of the Palestinian people are limited. However, the cumulative and gradual Palestinian struggle is what can bring more cumulative achievements and Israeli losses [leading to their] withdrawal, weakening, and defeat… The Palestinian people needs more cumulative achievements, as well as more [Israeli] losses and withdrawal, on the way to the ruin and defeat of Israel."

 

Text on screen: "Intifada within the Palestinian Interior (i.e., Palestinian term for Israel) against crime and violence"

[Official PA TV, Capital of Capitals, Feb. 11, 2026]

The Palestinian National Council (PNC) is the legislative body of the PLO.