Member of the Political Bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), Ghazi Hamad, said that the United States’ talk about the movement’s lack of place in the future of the Gaza Strip reflects its failure to achieve any achievement on the ground, and its conviction that Hamas has become a political and military force controlling the course of events.

Hamad added in an interview with Al Jazeera that the United States and Israel are trying to rearrange the situation in Gaza while they have not achieved any achievement on the ground other than killing civilians and destroying hospitals and civilian facilities.

He stressed that Washington and Tel Aviv are losing their reputation, soldiers and vehicles every day in Gaza, and that the prestige that Israel enjoyed has been broken forever and will not return.

Hamad also stressed that arranging the situation in Gaza “is a purely Palestinian matter, and Hamas will be a part of it against their will, because it is part of the national fabric that today stands with the resistance, the right to establish a state, and the rejection of occupation.”

A member of Hamas' political bureau said that "there is no Palestinian party that will cooperate with the Americans in this matter," and that "if they tried to search for some fragile and weak parties, the Palestinians would fail this suspicious plan just as they failed the deal of the century," he said.

Hamad explained that he is not talking about the Hamas movement only, but “about all the Palestinians who have become fully aware that the United States is not working for their benefit, but for the benefit of the occupation, and they are trying to empty Gaza of resistance to provide security for Israel.”

He stressed that Gaza will remain resistant to normalization and failure and will remain “a thorn in the side of the Americans and Israelis,” as he put it.

Hamad attributed the talk of Washington and Tel Aviv about arranging the future of Gaza without Hamas, to their awareness of the fact that the movement is currently driving events and that it has become a capable force politically and militarily after it moved the region and the world on the seventh of last October.

He concluded that the whole world realized that the Palestinians remaining under occupation was no longer possible in view of what happened on October 7, and also in view of the prices they paid, stressing that the resistance broke the prestige of the occupation and caused it a great failure.

Hamad challenged the Prime Minister of Israeli occupation government, Benjamin Netanyahu, or his army spokesman to provide a single piece of evidence of a real military achievement they achieved on the ground. He also stressed that the United States is no longer a superpower in the Middle East, as he put it.

Hamad called on the Palestinian Authority not to deal with the United States and not to come to Gaza on the back of an American tank. He addressed President Mahmoud Abbas, saying, “Rejecting what the Americans are planning will write you in history, because they will fail anyway.”

He said that the Authority's silence regarding the United States' claims regarding its acceptance of playing a role in Gaza after Hamas raises question marks, but he stressed that the Gaza Strip will never turn into an American state.

He stressed that the Palestinian Authority must clearly announce its rejection of America's plans and not accept it coming on the backs of tanks, as it previously rejected the deal of the century, adding, "This is what we expect from the Authority."

Hamad described the Arab regimes participating in the discussion of "the future of Gaza after the defeat of Hamas" as "incapable and failed, as they were unable to help the people of the Gaza Strip in these harsh circumstances and in light of these massacres and holocausts."

Regarding the issue of the cessation of war being contingent on the release of civilian detainees, Hamad said that the resistance tried to provide steps in this file, but the Israeli side did not deal with these steps, and at the same time it was not able to free a single prisoner or detainee, nor did it succeed in attacking Hamas as it had promised.

Hamad said that the resistance “is the one that will break the head of the occupation and Netanyahu’s head,” stressing that the movement is communicating with all parties in order to bring aid to the Palestinians and provide them with humanitarian support in light of the starvation campaign they are being subjected to.

Source: Al Jazeera