Meshaal explained in a newspaper interview that “Hamas officials are in no hurry to reach a ceasefire with Israel at any cost, and will not give up their main demands, which are to end the war and for Israel to withdraw from Gaza.”

Khaled Meshaal says at Ismail Haniyeh's funeral that assassination of group’s political bureau chief ‘strengthens’ resolve of Palestinians.

In a statement marking 18th anniversary of Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, Meshaal said: “The resistance fighters in Gaza, with the support of the resistance in the West Bank, the martyrdom operations in Israel and the Palestinians in diaspora recorded this achievement.”

“What is happening in the occupied Palestinian West Bank is not merely settlement,” Meshaal told the Jordanians, “it is a plan to deport the Palestinians from there to Jordan.”