Hamas Movement’s Leader in Gaza Strip Threatens Occupation with More Surprises

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The leader of the Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip Yahya Sinwar threatened the Zionist enemy with more missiles.

"What the resistance launched in 51 days during the recent war can be launched in five minutes during any Israeli aggression," Sinwar said. 

He also revealed that "the number of tunnels and ambushes in Gaza is double that of what the occupation faced in the last war."

Sinwar declared that "the capability of the missiles has been amplified in terms of accuracy and the explosive warheads are larger than they were in the past."

During a meeting with a number of writers and analysts in Gaza City, Sinwar said "We sent a message through intermediaries that we will turn the cauldron of ember in the face of the occupation. In six months, we will make the sirens sound continuously in Gush Dan. And I asked the mediators who met with me, Marwan Issa and Rawhi Mushtaha to convey this message to the occupation."

Sinwar estimated that "the timeframe to reach a truce between the Palestinian resistance and the “Israeli” occupation will not last long."

"The Hamas movement decided to end the imposed “Israeli” siege on the Gaza Strip within two months", he confirmed and pointed out that "the movement will not accept starving the Palestinian people." 

"Hamas does not want a military confrontation," Sinwar said. "At the same time, we are not afraid of a military confrontation and we have prepared ourselves for it over the past few years. We will achieve impressive results in any future confrontation."

The Hamas leader touched on the state of affairs between the resistance and the Palestinian Authority saying "while the occupation was waging an aggression against the residents of Gaza, Abu Mazen was imposing sanctions in an attempt to break the hand of the resistance."

"The factions’ terms for reconciliation begin with the lifting of the sanctions on Gaza, the formation of a national unity government, the implementation of the terms of the 2011 agreement, the convening of a national council and going to polls," he added. 

Sinwar continued, "We believe that only a unified Palestinian national council that possesses the weapon of resistance will rule Gaza."

"Any punitive measures imposed by the authority on the Gaza Strip would be a violation of the rules of the game and we will respond appropriately," he said. 

Regarding the Palestinian-Palestinian reconciliation dossier, Sinwar said "there are parties in the Palestinian intelligence service who have been working since the beginning of the 2017 understandings to sabotage the reconciliation by blowing up the motorcade of Major General Tawfiq Abu Naim and by attempting to bomb the convoy of Rami al-Hamdallah."

"We are ready to inform any national committee about the results of the investigation in the case of the attempted bombing of the convoy of al-Hamdallah," he noted.

"The movement's goal is to support the popular incubator that has stood with the resistance by all means," he said. "We will not rest until the people live decent lives. We will try to do that at all cost."

Sinwar pointed to the presence of “movements, proposals and research regarding the file of missing “Israeli” soldiers in Gaza.”

He also stated that “there will be some kind of mobility in this file during the coming period in parallel with the file of the truce, but without the two being linked."

The leader of the Hamas movement revealed a failed assassination attempt directed at him by an explosive device, accusing the chief of the security forces in Gaza, Tawfiq Abu Naim of planting the bomb.

“The security services seized the device two weeks after the reconciliation last October. It is orchestrated by one of the parties in the Palestinian intelligence service who wants to ruin the reconciliation," he noted.

Regarding the relationship with Fatah, Sinwar said "the Egyptian intelligence delivered the Fatah movement’s reply to the proposals of the Hamas delegation in Cairo. The response was worse than the previous one in the first paper."

Sinwar referred to Egypt's readiness to continue working towards a truce in Gaza even if reconciliation is not achieved.

Source: Al-Ahed