Palestinians to Keep Fighting for Their Rights by All Means - Hamas

By Staff, Agencies

The Zionist regime’s overnight bombing of the besieged Gaza Strip will not undermine the Palestinians’ determination to fight for their rights against the ‘Israeli’ occupation, Hamas resistance movement said.

"This will not affect the insistence of our people and their valiant resistance to continue the struggle by all means to fight for their rights and end their suffering," said Fawzi Barhoum, spokesman for the Gaza-based Palestinian resistance movement.

Barhoum made the remarks in a statement on Friday after the ‘Israeli’ regime violated a ceasefire overnight and bombed a site allegedly belonging to Hamas in the coastal enclave.

There were no reports of casualties as a result of the Zionist aggression.

Barhoum was quoted by the Arabic-language Palestinian Safa news agency in the statement.

"The Zionist enemy's bombing of the site in Gaza is nothing but a showy reaction to appease its settlers and cover up its escalating crises," he added.

The Hamas spokesman also stressed that resistance groups would confront Tel Aviv’s hostile policies and would force the regime to respect the Palestinians’ rights.

Tel Aviv claimed that the airstrikes, which hit areas south of Gaza City on Thursday night, were in response to Palestinians sending incendiary balloons toward the occupied territories.

The English-language Times of ‘Israel’ newspaper claimed that the offensive marked “a shift” in the regime’s new Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s policy.

The Zionist daily said the attack had shown that the regime’s new officials had even ramped up their violence against the coastal territory compared to the previous ruling coalition of Premier Benjamin Netanyahu, “which did not always respond to arson balloon attacks with airstrikes.”

Hamas has sternly warned the Zionist regime on many occasions against testing its firepower as the resistance movement’s military prowess forced ‘Israel’ to accept a ceasefire during the latest conflict in Gaza in May.

The Zionist regime started a 12-day war against the already Tel Aviv-blockaded Gaza Strip on May 10. As a result of the brutal aggression, more than 250 Palestinians were killed in Gaza, including 66 children, with more than 1,900 people wounded.

Hamas and the Islamic Jihad responded to the ‘Israeli’ aggression on the same day that it started targeting the enclave.

Throughout the offensive, the groups fired more than 4,000 rockets towards the ‘Israeli’-occupied territories. The projectiles swept the entire expanse of the territories, many flying as far as Tel Aviv, the holy occupied city of al-Quds, and even the northern-lying cities of Haifa and Nazareth.

The Palestinian rockets also killed 12 settlers in the occupied territories.

The ‘Israeli’ regime finally gave in to an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire on May 21, incapable of stopping the resistance’s rocket avalanche.