Members of the Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, during the handover of the bodies of the Bibas family and Oded Lifshitz to the Red Cross, February 20, 2025. (Photo: Omar Ashtawy/APA Images)Demands that Hamas disarm follow decades of international calls for a "demilitarized Palestinian state." These demands insist that Palestinians surrender their right to self-defense, a right no people should relinquish.