GAZA, (PIC)
Ghazi Hamad, a senior leader in the Hamas Movement, said in a recorded statement on Monday that Israel was launching a war of genocide against the Palestinian in Gaza Strip with the full support of the US, UK, and some western countries. He added that the United Nations has failed in its role to stop the genocidal war largely due to the US veto.
Following is the full text of Hamad’s statement:
“For seventy-three days, the fascist Israeli occupation has been conducting its genocidal war against our Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, using all kinds of weapons, ammunition, and internationally prohibited bombs and indiscriminately bombing schools and tents that house hundreds of thousands of displaced people and hospitals protected by international humanitarian law.
All this and more are taking place before the eyes of the whole world, with the blatant support of the U.S., U.K., and some European countries, in light of the inability of the dysfunctional international community and all UN institutions to stop this aggression due to the intransigence and arrogance of the American administration in its brazen use of the veto.
This genocidal aggression has resulted in the mass killing of more than 19,000 martyrs, about 52,000 wounded, and nearly 8,000 missing, 70% of whom are children and women. The Israeli occupation has so far committed 1,700 massacres against civilians and innocent unarmed people. In the occupied West Bank, more than 290 Palestinian martyrs have been killed by the Israeli occupation forces since the launch of the aggression on Gaza on Oct. 7, in addition to the tight restrictions imposed on the Palestinians in Occupied Jerusalem and in our blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque.
In this context, we affirm the following:
The losing trio of war (Netanyahu-Gantz-Gallant) have not and will not be able to achieve any of their aggressive goals.
The fascist Israeli government, headed by war-criminal Netanyahu, does not care about the lives of the Palestinian civilians nor its soldiers and prisoners. There is no clearer evidence of this than the continued killing of prisoners by the Israeli occupation forces. They falsely claim that they began this aggression to free their prisoners, but actually, they are killing them to escape from paying the valid price, which is a prisoners’ swap deal with the Palestinian resistance, under which Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails be freed.
As for the Palestinian resistance, it is standing, hitting hard and inflicting significant losses whether in the Israeli invading vehicles or troops. At the same time, we are saddened by what we all witness of suffering of our people as a result of the Israeli genocidal war which targets indiscriminately all areas across Gaza. We here mention that 92 Palestinian journalists have so far been killed by such brutality, aimed at silencing them and terrifying them from conveying what’s happening in Gaza.
The only achievement of the Israeli occupation is war crimes, genocide, massive killing of children and women, the destruction of infrastructure, and the elimination of all aspects of life. However, our steadfast Palestinian people display the most wonderful images of patience, resilience, patriotism, attachment to the homeland, and unconditional support for their resistance.
We continue to say that the US administration is totally responsible of these massacres and violations taking place at the hands of the Israeli occupation army in Gaza through the US unconditional delivery of weapons to kill Palestinians without any form of accountability.
Despite the US position, the Hamas Movement is watching the growing calls by several western governments to end the aggression on Gaza, in addition to other calls worldwide demanding immediate cease-fire in Gaza; the last of which was the statement by Canada, Australia and New Zealand backing sustainable cease-fire in Gaza. We welcome these developments and consider them in the right direction towards isolating the fascist Israeli government globally and ending the longest-ever occupation in our modern time.
Finally, we call on all countries and free people of the world to keep the momentum going to support, aid, and show solidarity with the Palestinian people by all possible and available means.”
