Hamas, an influential leader of the Palestinian Islamist organization, will rise from its ashes like a phoenix. Háled Mesaal according to MTI.
In an interview with Reuters news agency published on Tuesday, Mesaal claimed that Hamas would rise again against the Israeli army despite its losses in the Gaza Strip. The organization continues to recruit new members and continue to produce its own weapons, he added.
The history of the Palestinians consists of cycles. We go through stages, we lose martyrs and we lose some of our military capabilities, but then the Palestinian spirit rises again like a phoenix
Mesaal said.
According to the Hamas leader, the organization is still capable of carrying out attacks against Israeli soldiers.
“We have lost some of our weapons and ammunition, but Hamas continues to recruit young people and produce a significant proportion of its weapons and ammunition itself,” he explained.
Háled Mesaal was the political leader of Hamas between 1996 and 2017, but he still plays an influential role in the life of the organization. Mesaal, who lives in exile, is one of the six Hamas leaders indicted by the US Department of Justice for terrorism in connection with the October 7, 2023, terrorist attack on Israel in which Palestinian militants killed 1,200 people and took 250 hostages to Gaza. In response, the Israeli army launched a military operation against the Gaza Strip, where, according to local authorities, the number of Palestinian deaths already exceeds 42,000. Israel claims that Hamas no longer functions as a well-organized military structure, its activities have been reduced to guerrilla warfare. According to the Israeli authorities, at least a third of the Palestinian victims – roughly 17,000 people – were Hamas fighters.
About 350 Israeli soldiers died in the fighting in the Gaza Strip. Mesaal said in the interview: he sees no possibility of peace as long as Benjamin Netanyahu is in government in Israel.
As long as the (Israeli) occupation exists, the Middle East will remain a ticking time bomb
– stated Háled Mesaal.
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2024-10-08 09:38:34