Today, Wednesday, the American newspaper "The New York Times" quoted statements from leaders of the Hamas movement, who pointed to the reasons and motives for the "Al-Aqsa Flood" attack launched by the movement on the "Gaza envelope" on the 7th of last October, which was followed by the endless war, Israel continues to launch and deepen it, and it has resulted in the death of more than ten thousand Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the vast majority of whom are civilians.

A member of the supreme leadership body of the Hamas movement, Khalil Al-Hayya, said that it was necessary to "change the entire equation and not just the clash. We succeeded in returning the Palestinian issue to the table, and now no one in the region feels calm."

For his part, Hamas's media advisor, Taher Al-Nono, said, "I hope that the state of war with Israel will become permanent on all borders, and that the Arab world will stand with us."

Al-Nono's statements come at a time when Israel and Hezbollah are exchanging limited missile and artillery strikes on the Lebanese border, while the United States has mobilized an important part of its fleet in the region in an attempt to prevent the war from expanding and Iran and Hezbollah joining it on a large scale.

Al-Hayya added, "What can change the equation is a great work," referring to the "Al-Aqsa Flood" attack, and continued, "Without the slightest doubt, it was known that the reaction to this great work would be great."

Al-Hayya considered that "we had to tell people that the Palestinian cause will not die."

Al-Hayya pointed out that "Hamas's goal is not to administer Gaza and provide it with water, electricity, etc." He added, "Hamas, Al-Qassam, and the resistance woke the world from its deep slumber and showed that this issue must remain on the table."

He stressed, "This battle was not because we wanted fuel or workers. It did not seek to improve the situation in Gaza. This battle aims to completely turn the situation around."

The newspaper referred to the tightening Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip, since 2007, by quoting statements made by the head of Hamas in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, including his statement, in 2011, “They wanted the prison to be a grave for us. A mill to grind our will, our resolve, and our bodies.” ".

Sinwar had said in an interview with an Italian journalist for an Israeli newspaper, in 2018, “I am not saying that I will not fight anymore. I am saying that I do not want war anymore. I want the end of the siege. You walk to the beach at sunset and see all these people.” "Teenagers on the beach talking and wondering what the world across the sea is like. What life is like. I want them free."