By Staff, Agencies

Hamas representative in Lebanon and member of the group’s politburo Osama Hamdan said Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his far-right cabinet won’t be able to reap any benefits out of the ongoing onslaught against the Gaza Strip, stressing that Hamas fighters are engaged in “fierce battles” with ‘Israeli’ troops across the territory.

"Netanyahu and his Nazi cabinet have not been successful in achieving their political, military, and field goals, nor will they be in the future," Hamdan said at a press briefing in the Lebanese capital of Beirut on Thursday evening.

"The occupying Zionist entity has exercised all methods of killing, destruction, starvation, and systematic extermination against our people in the Gaza Strip, with American and Western support,” he added as the indiscriminate ‘Israeli’ bombing campaign against Gaza since October 7 has left at least 17,177 Palestinian martyrs, most of them women and children. More than 46,000 people have been wounded as well.

Hamdan added, “Zionist officials are trying to establish unreal goals to present an imaginary victory to settlers. This is while surrender and defeat do not exist in the lexicon of our people.”

The Hamas official underscored that the ‘Tel Aviv’ regime is trying to clinch an imaginary victory through Netanyahu’s announcement that ‘Israeli’ forces have encircled the home of top Hamas leader Yehya Sinwar in Gaza, stating that the development comes irrespective of the fact that the building has already been bombed and demolished.

Hamdan also said fighters from his group are engaged in “fierce battles” with ‘Israeli’ troops in various neighborhoods across the besieged Gaza Strip, stressing that the invading forces are facing fierce and resolute confrontations from the resistance factions.

He said the “actual number” of ‘Israeli’ soldiers who have been killed and injured during confrontations in Gaza is “much higher” than the figures announced by ‘Israeli’ authorities.

He went on to address family members of ‘Israeli’ captives in Gaza, saying, “The ongoing military aggression against our people will not return your children to you.”

“They will not return if the ground and air strikes don’t stop,” Hamdan pointed out.

While some 100 aid trucks enter Gaza daily, the Palestinian territory needs 600 trucks carrying humanitarian supplies, the top Hamas official said elsewhere in his remarks.

Hamadan argued that areas in northern Gaza only receive a fraction of what has been allowed to enter the Strip, criticizing the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East [UNRWA] and the Palestine Red Crescent Society for failing to carry out their duties properly.

The top Hamas official went on to say that resistance fighters have managed to either destroy or damage at least 79 armored ‘Israeli’ military vehicles in Gaza City over the past 72 hours.

He underscored that Gaza-based Palestinian resistance fighters are fully prepared for any possible scenario, stressing they will firmly stand up against Israeli plans for the forced displacement of the Palestinian population from the region.

The Zionist regime launched the war on Gaza on October 7 after the territory’s resistance movements waged the surprise Operation al-Aqsa Flood in the ‘Israeli’-occupied Palestinian territories in response to the ‘Israeli’ regime’s decades-long campaign of bloodletting and devastation against Palestinians.