80% of Gaza remains untouched by IOF: Hamas politburo member
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Hamas politburo member Osama Hamdan underlines that the accomplishments made throughout the truce were exemplary, stressing that "Israel" was not going to continue fighting in Gaza.
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Israeli soldiers move tanks at a staging area near the separation barrier with the Gaza Strip, southern occupied Palestine, November 28, 2023 (AP)
The martyrdom of senior members of al-Qassam Brigades will not obstruct the path of the Resistance, especially in light of the impetus it is getting all over Palestine and abroad, Hamas politburo member Osama Hamdan told a press conference on Tuesday.
Hamdan pointed out that the occupation's acknowledgment of the number of its soldiers killed and injured in the ground invasion "does not reveal the truth they fear to disclose." He spoke of approximately a thousand Israeli soldiers wounded in Gaza, including two hundred with serious injuries.
Similarly, he clarified that "80% of Gaza's land has not been tread upon by the Israeli forces," warning that "the losses of the occupation will escalate in the coming days. The Israeli threats of war after the ceasefire are empty, and Israelis are aware of that."
In contradiction to the occupation's claims of controlling extensive areas in the Gaza Strip, Hamdan highlighted that "the delivery of captives by al-Qassam in various locations in the Strip refutes the claims of the occupation forces' control over a portion of Gaza's land."
National victory
Hamdan also commented on the ceasefire agreement imposed by the Palestinian Resistance on the Israeli occupation forces, saying the strides made during the four-day ceasefire were "a great national victory, for it included prisoners from all over the homeland."
The agreement was reached through Qatari and Egyptian mediation, and it went into effect on Friday.
The limited truce remains under heavy criticism by international organizations, human rights activists, and several countries and officials calling for an immediate ceasefire rather than an insufficient truce.
These calls have been rejected by both the United States and the Israeli occupation entity, stressing that the aggression must continue until all "Tel Aviv's" objectives are fulfilled, something which military experts and diplomats expressed extreme doubts about.
The terms include a halt to all hostilities and the release of 50 Israeli captives in exchange for the freedom of 150 Palestinian prisoners.
Ahead of this truce reached by the Resistance, Hamdan said, the Israeli occupation "used more than 40,000 tons of explosives in Gaza during 50 days of aggression," adding that the goal of rendering Gaza "uninhabitable" will never be realized.
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Hamdan called on "the leaders of our Arab and Islamic nations to implement the decisions of the Riyadh Summit to stop the aggression."
He also called for "an increase in the number of trucks entering the Gaza Strip" and demanded that "more medical hospitals be admitted into Gaza and allowing for the wounded to be transferred for treatment abroad," as well as the dispatching of civil defense teams for clearing the debris and retrieving the bodies of martyrs.
Moreover, the top Hamas official condemned what Human Rights Watch reported regarding the Israeli aggression on Gaza's hospitals, especially Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital, affirming that "the Human Rights Watch report uses speculative language, and we call for its withdrawal and the formation of an international investigation committee into what happened in Gaza."
Musk welcome to visit Gaza
Hamdan went on to invite billionaire X owner Elon Musk to "visit Gaza to see the extent of crimes committed against our people for objectivity and credibility."
Musk had toured the Israeli settlements of the Gaza envelope with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Israeli Occupation Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi stated on Monday that he has reached a preliminary agreement with Musk to deploy Starlink satellite communication services in the Gaza Strip which is restricted to Israeli approval.
"The occupation has been trying to take it out on our prisoners since October 7 through violations and crimes, and sadly, we do not see anything coming out of human rights organizations," Hamadan said.
He also criticized the propaganda campaigns being carried out by US politicians, saying it would exacerbate global instability and calling on US President Joe Biden to apologize to the Palestinian people and the American people who "stood up in the face of the Biden administration's stances."
However, he underlined that if Biden were to apologize, such an apology would be void and meaningless "if it was not accompanied by a stern decision forcing Israel to halt its aggression on Gaza."
Hamdan concluded his press conference by calling on all activists and supporters of the Palestinian cause to partake in the observation of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people and to continue demonstrating and protesting "in rejection of the genocidal war being waged against our people."
