Haniye says the deaths of his relatives in Israel’s attacks will not stop the “resistance”

Hamas insists that they will not accept any agreement that does not include a ceasefire

June 25 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The head of the political arm of Hamas, Ismail Haniye, reaffirmed this Tuesday that the deaths of some of his relatives, including his sister, during the past few hours as a result of a new Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip will not mean any setback. in the demands and resistance of the Palestinians.

“The martyrs of my family are the martyrs of our people, and the martyrs of our people are also my family. There is no difference between martyrs and all of them have been chosen by the Merciful One on our path to victory and freedom,” he said. expressed Haniye, reports the Palestinian newspaper ‘Filastin’.

In his first statements after learning this Tuesday that at least ten of his relatives have died as a result of a bombardment by the Israeli Army on the Shati refugee camp, in the north of the Strip, Haniye has rejected that the attacks against his family are to stop the “resistance.”

“If the criminal enemy thinks that attacking my family will change my positions and my family’s resistance, then he is deceived because every martyr in Gaza and Palestine is from my family,” said Haniye, who stressed that the “blood of the martyrs” forces us to “not compromise” and “not despair”.

CEASE FIRE AS A ‘SINE QUA NON’ CONDITION

Likewise, the head of Hamas’s political arm has insisted that they will not accept any agreement that does not include a ceasefire and an “end to aggression.” This is a position, he stressed, that “will not change at any time.”

In this sense, he has stressed that any proposal for the Gaza Strip once the war ends must be “purely Palestinian”, since “no one has the right” to interfere in issues that concern the Palestinian people.

Haniye has reproached that despite the “flexibility” shown by Hamas during the negotiations, Israel has insisted on exacerbating the tension, first by bombing the Strip on a large scale without distinguishing between civilians, and then by invading Rafah and causing humanitarian disasters with the blockades of the border crossings.

Finally, he has appealed to the international community to act and stop Israeli “aggression”, as well as to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid.