Saleh Al-Arouri, deputy head of the political bureau of Hamas, said on Thursday evening that the Palestinian people will not surrender, nor do they intend to surrender, and they have never discussed the idea of surrender.

Al-Arouri added, in an interview with Al-Aqsa TV, that the occupation wants to eradicate our people from our land, history, present, future, and sanctities, and plant in their place this falsehood that they brought from all over the world, and therefore we have no intention of surrendering, and we have no intention of giving up.

And he continued: This Zionist government says either you accept to be our slaves, or we will uproot you from this country, and we say to them as long as this war is extirpating, the emergency in this country, the new, the occupier, and abnormal horizons coming from everywhere in the world are the ones who will uproot and go, as happened with others. From invaders and colonizers, this people remains. According to him.

He praised the renewed resistance of the West Bank, which affirms its adherence to the constants and its rights, indicating that the Palestinian people always have the ability to surprise the occupation, and among those surprises is the escalation of resistance in the West Bank in light of unprecedented challenges.

The Hamas leader said, "The occupation is the one that caused the escalation of this resistance by escalating unprecedented measures against our people and our sanctities, and by building settlements."

He added: Hamas is part of this people and in the heart of the resistance, and we do not disavow or embarrass ourselves from the resistance, and therefore we are present in the resistance, and we do not accept ourselves to be absent from the resistance of our people. like he said

And he continued: He sought in the Hamas movement to be the heart and weight of the resistance, and we do not consider this an accusation, but an honor for us and our duty to be at the forefront of the defenders of our people, our land and our sanctities. According to him.

He expressed his optimism about individual operations, saying: When there are individual resistance operations from people who are not involved in any organization, because we are all in one organization called the Palestinian people, this is our organization for which all the factions and the people work.

He added: The occupation forced all our people to join the resistance when it announced its plans publicly, and the Zionist government declared that it was working on settlement control in the West Bank, an irreversible control, and it would Judaize Jerusalem and seize Al-Aqsa Mosque. like he said.

He continued: The occupation government has taken settlement decisions, and has put all the tools in the hands of Finance Minister Smotrich, the most extremist and insane person, and he says that during the remaining period of this government, at least a million settlers will be transferred to the West Bank.

And he indicated that Hamas is clear in its positions, saying: We as the Palestinian people must fight our battle against settlements, and so far Hamas has focused its operations against settlements, because it is the heart of the occupation, and it is the most dangerous face of the occupation.

The deputy head of Hamas added: We are able as a people to confront the occupation, and every day we delay in igniting a comprehensive battle against settlements in the West Bank, we will fight this battle in more difficult and worse conditions.

He believed that there is an opportunity to expel the occupation and settlements from the West Bank instead of expelling us from it. There is no longer any escape from a comprehensive battle in the West Bank, either we expel them or they depart by themselves. like he said.

Regarding the threat to assassinate the leaders of Hamas, Al-Arouri said: It is not new to the occupation, as their project began with massacres, killings, displacement and torture, and indeed they assassinate martyrs from among our people every day, and we in the Hamas movement are part of this people.

He added: We in the Hamas movement are part of this people, and therefore we are martyred like our people, and we are arrested as they are arrested, and our homes are demolished and we are pursued and chased. Unfortunately, this is the normal situation under the occupation, but also we resist, chase and fight because we are right.

And he continued: Does the occupation expect that after its assassination threats, we will announce surrender?! These threats do not frighten us, and we as a Palestinian people do not have options, and therefore we will not stop resisting.

And he continued: One day a Minister of War named Lieberman came and said I will cut off the head of Ismail Haniyeh, and here he is in the dustbin of history, and Ismail Haniyeh is still serving the cause of our people, and they also tried to kill the leader Muhammad Al-Deif, and God willing, he will enter Jerusalem and they will be out of history. like he said.