Senior leader of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), Osama Hamdan, said, “Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is prolonging the war on the Gaza Strip for personal reasons,” and explained that the occupation aims to displace the Palestinian people from the Gaza Strip and repeat the Nakba.

Osama Hamdan indicated - in a press conference held in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, on Tuesday - that Netanyahu does not care about the Israelis, nor about his soldiers in the field.

He sent a message to the families of detainees and foreigners in Gaza saying, “We want your children to return to you, but the one obstructing this is the Netanyahu government,” calling on the Israeli families whose members are detained in the Strip to put pressure on “the government of the opportunist Netanyahu, and do not waste time, as time is almost running out.”

Hamdan said clearly, "Nothing will prevent the liberation of our prisoners in the occupation prisons."

Regarding the statements of Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich welcoming the resettlement of Gaza residents in Western countries, the Hamas leader said, “We are staying on this land, and you are cowardly passers-by.”

In this context, Hamdan considered that the occupation’s targeting of infrastructure and hospitals in Gaza is an attempt to “push our people to flee the Strip.”

He stressed that the Hamas movement is fighting the battle to end the occupation, protect Al-Aqsa Mosque, liberate the prisoners, and establish a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital. He said, "The battle is still in its beginning, and what is coming is greater."

Regarding field developments in the Gaza Strip, the Hamas leader reassured the Palestinian people and free peoples that the resistance and the Al-Qassam Brigades - the movement’s military wing - are fine and in control of the situation.

Medical sector

The Hamas leader renewed his invitation to the United Nations and international organizations to come to the Gaza Strip to protect hospitals and medical centers, and noted the movement’s request from the United Nations to form an international committee to follow up on hospitals in the Gaza Strip to refute the lies of the occupation.

He described the claims of Israeli occupation army spokesman Daniel Hagari regarding Al-Rantisi Hospital in Gaza as "naive and reveal the psychological state of a defeated army," and refuted all the allegations he mentioned regarding the basement located beneath the hospital that specializes in treating pediatric cancer patients.

He expressed his appreciation for the Arab, Islamic and free peoples, and called on them to continue demonstrating until the Israeli aggression against Gaza stops.

He considered burying 170 bodies in mass graves in Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City a disgrace to the international community, and renewed the demand to completely open the Rafah border crossing with Egypt to bring in aid and treat the wounded.

Source: Al Jazeera