BEIRUT, (PIC)
Senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan affirmed in a press conference held in Beirut on Monday evening that his Movement insists on a comprehensive ceasefire and that the Israeli response to his Movement’s remarks regarding the Paris proposal indicates a retreat from the proposal and sets conditions and obstacles that do not help in reaching a ceasefire agreement.
Hamdan said the Israeli occupation army has been carrying on with its genocidal war and crimes against humanity for 129 consecutive days with the US and some Western countries’ partnership, the most recent of which were the criminal massacres carried out at dawn Sunday in the city of Rafah, targeting homes, mosques, and killing, injuring and displacing dozens of people.
Hamdan blamed all countries that support Israel and even those who do not condemn and criminalize the genocidal war being carried out in the Gaza Strip for the Israeli continuation of its Nazi war against the Palestinian people, bearing them the responsibility, repercussions and legal consequences that remain a stain on their records forever.
“We are engaged in difficult talks on multiple tracks, and we deal with responsibility with all initiatives and endeavors that meet the ambitions and aspirations of our people in the Gaza Strip, in order to stop the aggression, lift the siege, achieve relief and reconstruction, and liberate prisoners in Israeli prisons,” he said.
Hamdan hailed the people of the Gaza Strip who remain steadfast despite the Israeli bloody aggression and heinous crimes and massacres and who are struggling in the face of starvation and enforced displacement.
Hamdan condemned in the strongest terms the Israeli massacres against children, the latest of which is the little girl Hind Rajab, in addition to the Israeli targeting of medical crews, especially the torture of the Director of Al-Shifa Hospital, Doctor Muhammad Abu Salmiya, who has been inhumanely insulted and tortured.
The Hamas official also denounced the “Israeli Nazi violations against our people in the occupied West Bank, as the number of martyrs since the beginning of the aggression (on Gaza) has risen to more than 405 martyrs.”
As for the Palestinian prisoners, Hamdan decried the Israeli violations against the detainees, referring to those who were recently released and narrated horrific testimonies on the psychological and physical torture which detained men and women were subjected to, leading to the martyrdom of some of them under torture, the last of whom was martyr Muhammad al-Sabbar, who died as a result of torture and medical neglect in Israeli jails.
The Hamas leader held “the US administration and President Biden personally fully responsible, along with the Israeli occupation government, for the massive massacres committed in Rafah, because of the green light they gave to Netanyahu yesterday, and the open support they provide him with money, weapons, and political cover to continue the genocidal war.”
He called on the League of Arab States, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, and the UN Security Council to take urgent and serious action to prevent Israel from committing more genocide crimes in the city of Rafah.
Regarding the issue of liberating two captives in Gaza, Hamdan said that Israel claims to have reached and liberated two Israeli captives in Al-Shaboura refugee camp in Rafah, but there are field press accounts saying the two captives were not in the possession of the Hamas Movement, but rather they were detained by a family, stressing that these allegations come to boost the morale of the Israeli soldiers, in light of their failure to achieve any of their goals.
He announced that after more than four months of the Israeli aggression, there are 134 prisoners still in the possession of Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, which is a great achievement for the resistance.
He called on the International Court of Justice to document the Israeli horrific crimes, massacres, and violations, which have continued since its ruling, affecting all aspects of human life in the Gaza Strip, and to work to adopt a decision to stop this war and horrific crimes against the Palestinian people.
