KUALA LUMPUR, (PIC)
The head of Hamas Movement abroad, Khaled Mishaal, called for opening new fronts of resistance against the Israeli occupation, and for taking political and legal action to pursue Israel at the international level.
This came in his speech delivered on Monday at the 7th Kuala Lumpur Conference for Thought and Civilization, in Istanbul, marking one year of the battle of the Al-Aqsa Flood.
Mishaal pointed out that the Al-Aqsa Flood has become the title of a new stage in the history of the conflict, explaining that the aggression of the Israeli occupation will not reduce the impact of its defeat on the seventh of October.
He pointed out that the resistance forces, headed by Hamas, presented in this battle the best of its men and their great leaders, headed by the head of the Movement, Ismail Haneyya, and his deputy, Sheikh Saleh Al-Arouri, along with all of the Palestinian martyrs, which points to Hamas’s full involvement in this battle.
Mishaal praised Gaza and its resistance as well as the resistance in the West Bank and 1948 occupied Palestine who are continuing resistance operations despite the cruelty of the Israeli occupation and settlers, stressing that Jerusalem remains the most prominent issue for which Gaza has revolted as the pivotal title in the Palestinian issue.
Mishaal saluted all those who supported Gaza, especially in Lebanon, Iran, Yemen, and Iraq, led by Hassan Nasrallah, the Secretary-General of Hezbollah who was assassinated by Israel in the southern suburb of Beirut.
He also hailed and thanked the Arab and Islamic nations as well as the freedom loving people of the world, referring to the masses who moved in universities and in all other sectors to support the Palestinian people.
Mishaal considered that the Al-Aqsa Flood “represents a new stage and a great shift in the conflict,” stressing that the Flood achieved in one year what could have not been achieved in years.
The Hamas leader said that the Flood proved that the option of resistance is the profitable option that is capable of achieving the nation’s national project, adding that it came as a natural response to the acceleration of the Israeli occupation plans in settlement, siege, aggression on Al-Aqsa, the escalation of the torture crimes against prisoners and tightening the noose on the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.
Mishaal pointed out that the Israeli occupation failed over a whole year to achieve its goals against the resistance in Gaza, which has led to exporting the aggression to Lebanon and the region in a desperate attempt to restore the image of deterrence that has been shattered in Gaza since October 7.
He affirmed that the Israeli losses are strategic despite all the harm and pain it caused to the Palestinians, adding that Israel seeks to strike everyone who stands on its way, so that everyone remains subjected to it.
Mishaal also sounded the alarm against Israeli plans to displace the people of the West Bank towards Jordan.
The Hamas leader concluded his speech by saluting Gaza and its steadfast people, mourning the martyrs, wishing speedy recovery for the wounded, freedom for the prisoners, and security and stability for the displaced and the homeless in Gaza and Lebanon.
