Speaker of the Jordanian parliament Atef Tarawneh has said there is a need for the Palestinians to close ranks in order to restore their usurped land, stressing that the Palestinians have a legitimate right to resist the occupation.

Tarawneh made his remarks in an interview conducted recently by the Egyptian newspaper Youm7 and published on Sunday.

The Jordanian official stated that “the differences between the [Palestinian] brothers should not lead them to lose the main objective, which is their resistance for their occupied land.”

“When we talk about resistance, we cannot talk about disarming it, but this weapon must be disciplined, with no outlaws or terrorist hiding behind it,” he said.

“In principle, I am with the legitimacy of the resistance until the land returns to its rightful owners, and its sovereignty return to the Palestinians,” he added.