PIJ not to deal with mediation efforts until taking revenge: Sources

By Al Mayadeen English
Source: Agencies + Al Mayadeen Net
7 Aug 2022 12:16

The PIJ says there will not be pacification in the meantime and that the final word will be decided on the battlefield.

Israeli airstrike on a residential area in Gaza

Palestinian sources revealed on Sunday to Al Mayadeen that the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement (PIJ) has taken a decision not to deal with any mediation efforts until after taking revenge for the aggression and assassinations.

PIJ Spokesperson Tariq Salmi confirmed Sunday that the Resistance's missiles are only a small part of the price that the Israeli occupation will pay over its crimes and the assassination of commander Taiseer Al-Jaabari.

Salmi said there will not be pacification in the meantime and that the final word will be decided on the battlefield, stressing that the Resistance is going to curb the Israeli occupation all the way.

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No ceasefire, Resistance to respond indefinitely: Sources

It is noteworthy that sources in the Palestinian resistance told Al Mayadeen on Saturday that Egypt offered to mediate a ceasefire for a few hours between the Israeli occupation and the Palestinian Resistance. But the PIJ responded by saying now was the time to respond to the Israeli occupation's crimes.

"Egypt was told that the resistance's response would take an indefinite amount of time to be exacted," the sources added.

PIJ official Daoud Shehab had said there was no talk about a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

"Our priority right now is resisting the occupation and responding to the aggression, terrorism, and violations committed against our people," he said. "Palestinian Islamic Jihad is ready for this battle to continue, and it will create a real state of attrition within the enemy's ranks."

Al Mayadeen correspondent indicated that the death toll of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip has reached 31 martyrs and more than 220 wounded since Friday afternoon.

Our correspondent reported Saturday that the Israeli occupation committed a horrific massacre in Jabalia Camp, in the northern Gaza Strip.

The PIJ mourned the martyrs who lost their lives as a result of the Israeli aggression that targeted a residential area in the Yabna camp in Rafah, at the forefront of which is martyr Khaled Mansour, a member of the PIJ Military Council and commander of the southern region in Al-Quds Brigades.

On Friday, the Israeli occupation began an aggression against the Gaza Strip, targeting Al-Quds Brigades Commander Taiseer Al-Jaabari, a military commander in the Strip.

Al-Quds Brigades launched an operation in response to the Israeli occupation's aggression on Gaza by launching salvoes of rockets toward the occupied Palestinian territories.