Palestinian militant group Hamas has issued a statement urging the new administration of new US President Donald Trump to make “ending the war” in Gaza a priority.

The statement comes amid reports that Trump recently advised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to end the military conflict before his inauguration on January 20, following his election victory over Vice President Kamala Harris.

“In light of the first results showing that Donald Trump has won the US presidential election,” Hamas responded to the election results, and they expect Trump to “listen to the voices expressed by the American public for more than a year about the (Israeli) aggression against the Gaza Strip.”

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Times of Israel reported that Trump’s comments urging an end to the conflict were reportedly first shared with Netanyahu at a meeting at Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s Florida resort, in July.

The Hamas statement outlined several specific demands from the US to “work seriously to end the war of genocide and aggression against our Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.”

Hamas requests to end ‘military support’ to Israel

The militant group also called for an end to “the aggression against the brotherly Lebanese people” and asked the US to stop providing “military support and political cover to the Zionist entity.” Hamas also urged Trump’s administration to recognize what they call the “legitimate rights of our people.”

Hamas stressed its intention to continue opposing what it considers the “hateful (Israeli) occupation,” stating that it would not accept solutions that would undermine Palestinian rights to “freedom, independence, self-determination and the establishment of their independent Palestinian state.” endanger by force’. Jerusalem as the Capital,” in line with Hamas’s long-standing position on Palestinian sovereignty and its opposition to Israel’s presence in areas claimed by Palestinians.

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The policies of the current government of the United States of America under the presidency of Joe Biden and Vice President Harris have been quite pro-Israel; however, the White House has in the past made démarches against certain actions by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). In October, President Biden urged a ceasefire just before the IDF began operations in Lebanon.