Hamas has dismissed the latest threats by Israeli minister of military affairs Yoav Gallant against the Palestinian resistance movement, saying they indicate the disgraceful defeat of his forces in the Gaza Strip.
In a brief statement, Hamas rejected Gallant’s assassination threat against top Hamas leaders as “completely absurd and pointless,” stressing that the comments exhibit the Zionist enemy’s inability to achieve any of its goals in its onslaught on Gaza.
“The allegations made by the criminal war minister of the occupying regime, in which he alleged that his defeated troops are on the verge of assassinating Hamas leaders, are utterly worthless.
“Such hollow threats are meant to present an imaginary picture of Israeli military achievements [in Gaza]. They demonstrate the ignominious failure of the occupying regime and Gallant in attaining any of the declared goals as a result of aggression against Gaza. The assaults have brought about nothing other than massacre of ordinary people and destruction of civilian facilities,” the statement read.
On Friday, Gallant issued a new threat against Yahya Sinwar, asserting that the Hamas chief in Gaza will soon “meet the barrels of our guns.”
He claimed that the Israeli military was gradually completing the goals the regime had set in the north of the Gaza Strip and that the forces were dismantling Hamas battalions and eliminating its underground capabilities.
The relentless Israeli strikes against Gaza have killed at least 20,057 people, most of them women and children, in Gaza. Another 53,320 individuals have been wounded as well.
Experts say that the Israeli military operation in Gaza is now considered one of the most lethal and devastating in recent times.
On Thursday, emeritus professor of peace studies at Bradford University Paul Rogers wrote in British daily The Guardian that “Israel is losing the war against Hamas” but Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his regime “will never admit it”.
At least 18 people were killed on Friday evening in an Israeli airstrike on the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.
In the town of Jabalia, located in the northern part of the territory, a strike by military aircraft also led to the destruction of a water desalination plant situated on Old Gaza Street.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that the way Israel is conducting its military operation in the Gaza Strip is “creating massive obstacles to the distribution of humanitarian aid” inside the Palestinian region of 2.3 million people.
He also urged “Israeli authorities to lift restrictions on commercial activity immediately.”
