The Zionist war on Palestinian Resistance

update: Three Palestinians Killed in New Israeli Strikes, Toll Reaches 23


"Hezbollah called on the Arab people to “direct its compass and to unite all its efforts in order to free Palestine, all of Palestine form the growing Zionist terrorism which has been absolutely backed by the United States and the West”.

Two new Palestinian martyrs have been fallen on Sunday in new Israeli air strikes on the Gaza strip, raising the death toll to 18 people. Another 30 people were wounded, six of whom were in critical condition.

Zionist air forces triggered the violence on Friday when they killed the leader of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), Shiekh Zohair al-Qaisi, sparking cross-border exchange in which another 15 resistance fighters were martyred, in the most deadly 24-hour period in more than three years.

"Over the past 24 hours, over 45 rockets have hit communities in southern Israel- injuring four people, one severely, one moderately and two lightly." NON of it was fired by HAMAS, though Hamas said All options are open to retaliate to Israeli aggression. The movement called for unity of lines and urged the Arab, Islamic countries and free people of the world to adopt serious stands to pressure Israel into halting its crimes against the Palestinian people. The Qassam Brigades, affirmed that the IOA would pay for its crimes sooner or later (After getting a fatwa from Nato Mufti).

Dr. Ismail Radwan, a Hamas leader in Gaza, denounced Mahmoud Abbas, Fatah leader and PA chief, for insisting on maintaining contacts with Israel despite its repeated military escalations.

Acting Palestinian legislative council speaker Dr. Ahmed Bahar condemned the Israeli military escalation against the Gaza Strip and urged Cairo to intervene to halt the aggression. Bahar Claimed  that Israel targets obstructing national reconciliation. No Mr Speaker, Israel is targets factions insisting, after you Hamas decided to go for popular resistance, on keeping the armed resistance option alive,

Osama Hamdan opined that the aggression reflected an internal Israeli crisis and fear of the spirit of change that swept countries of the Arab Spring.

Haneyya's priority is halting aggression, on the Strip and protecting the Palestinian people, by holding intensified contacts to end the attacks on Gaza, not  by firing rocketsm because “Egyptian brothers” were working round the clock to end the aggression.

Khaled Al-Batesh, a leader of the Islamic Jihad movement in Gaza said his movement would continue to retaliate strongly to Israeli attacks, adding that Israel wants the Palestinian resistance factions to accept calm according to its own standards, which is rejected by those factions. Batesh said that Egyptian efforts to restore calm would not succeed as long as Israel continued in its attacks. The Jihad leader asked the Arab countries to arm the Palestinian resistance to enable it to defend the unarmed Palestinians, who are butchered at the hands of Israeli army’s American-made warplanes.

Israeli Prime Minister Banjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israel was going on with Gaza raids “as long as necessary”, Zionist ministers are discussing a ground operation in the strip. 

"We extracted a high price from them and will continue to do so," he said at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting. "We will act as long as necessary."

Meanwhile, Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz said the flareup meant that the Zionist entity would soon have to consider sending troops into Gaza as it did in the massive 22-day offensive which ended in mid-January 2009, leaving 1,400 Palestinian martyrs.

"Sooner or later, we will probably have to put an end to the Hamas regime, the terror regime, in Gaza," he said at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting.

But Environment Minister Gilad Erdan argued that a ground operation would be a dangerous diversion “from Israel's current priority -- preventing a nuclear Iran”.

"Our defense systems are working well, particularly Iron Dome, and the army has inflicted heavy losses on the terrorists, so for the time being, there is no need for a ground operation," he said.
"The Israeli interest is for the world to focus on sanctions on Iran, not on an Israeli military campaign."

For his part, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman justified the initial attack against PRC leader Sheikh Zuhair al-Qaisi, calling him "a ticking bomb" who was about to attack the Zionist entity.
But he said a ground operation was "not desirable," unless it had the clear goal of overthrowing the territory's Hamas rulers.

Sheikh Qaisi was martyred on Friday as Israeli air forces staged a strike on Gaza strip.

He asked Palestinian resistance factions to coordinate their stands in dealing with the Israeli aggression, and called on the Arab and Islamic countries to restrain Israel

Hezbolalh denounced on Saturday the assassination of the leader of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), Shiekh Zuhair al-Qaisi, as a new crime in the Zionist terrorism. “Hezbollah condemns this terrorist Zionst crime, and what followed it of raids on the Gaza strip which caused the martyrdom of several other Palestinians, especially figures and fighters of the Islamic Jihad movement”, the party said in a statement released by it Media Relations office on Saturday. “The hand of Zionist crime has been extended for another time to kill one of the resistance figures, writing another chapter in the book of the Zionist terrorism”. “This new crime is a reminder of the criminality nature which is originated in the mentality of this entity’s leaders, soldiers and settlers”, the statement said, describing the assassination as a coward act. The party added that the assassination came at a time the Arabs have been busy to follow the Zionist terrorism and were engaged in their internal affairs. It also came at a time “some Arabs are drifted by the American-Israeli project which aims at creating new enemies for the Arab people in order to forget the danger of the Zionist offense on the nation, its future and people, especially the Palestinian cause”. Hezbollah called on the Arab people to “direct its compass and to unite all its efforts in order to free Palestine, all of Palestine form the growing Zionist terrorism which has been absolutely backed by the United States and the West”.

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