The head of the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement’s political office in the diaspora has praised the heroic steadfastness of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip amid relentless Israeli offensives, stressing that their six-month-old battle with the occupying regime will “break the enemy soon.”
Khaled Meshaal made the remarks at an event in the Qatari capital of Doha to mourn members of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh’s family, who were killed in an Israeli air strike against the al-Shati refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday.
“This is not the final round,” Meshaal said, referring to the ongoing Palestinian resistance against the Israeli onslaught. “It is an important round on the path of liberating Palestine and defeating the Zionist project.”
Meanwhile, Hamas spokesman Abdul Latif al-Qanou stated that Israel has infringed upon all humanitarian principles and international law.
“The occupying Zionist regime intensified the genocide of Palestinians during the Eid al-Fitr holidays. Hundreds of people got killed as civilian vehicles, crowded markets and residential houses were bombed by occupation forces without paying little heed to the religious sentiments of Muslims and respecting their rituals,” Qanou told Lebanon’s Arabic-language al-Mayadeen television news channel.
He added, “Criminal occupiers disrespected the holy month of Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr festivities, and ramped up the massacre of civilians instead. They committed more crimes by violating all international and humanitarian regulations.”
The Hamas official went on to call upon Muslim and Arab nations as well as freedom-loving peoples worldwide to show solidarity with Palestinians by staging demonstrations and putting pressure on Israel to stop its genocidal war on Gaza.
Qanou also saluted all resistance groups that have supported the steadfastness of the Palestinian nation on various fronts over the past few months, emphasizing that Palestinians reserve the right to self-defense and self-determination.
Israel waged the bloody war on Gaza on October 7 after Hamas launched Operation al-Aqsa Storm in the occupied territories in retaliation for the Tel Aviv regime’s incessant crimes against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
Since the start of the aggression, the Tel Aviv regime has killed at least 33,634 people in Gaza, mostly women and children.
The campaign has devastated large swathes of Gaza, destroyed hospitals and displaced half of its population of 2.4 million.
Israel has also imposed a “complete siege” on the coastal sliver, cutting off fuel, electricity, food and water to the more than two million Palestinians living there.
