⭕️ Press Statement
by the Islamic Resistance Movement - Hamas
December 21, 2023
Ladies and Gentlemen…
Over 76 days, the Palestinian people have been experiencing the horrors of the Israeli genocidal war across the Gaza Strip, in addition to the daily aggression in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem by the Israeli occupation army, and settlers who are given a free-hand to kill and damage Palestinians’ properties.
While the entire world is silent, the Israeli occupation army continue to commit massacres on daily basis, especially in the northern parts of the Gaza Strip. In Gaza City, the Israeli fascist army committed several field executions against entire families; eyewitnesses reported that dozens of Palestinians were taken from their homes and were executed in cold-blood in front of their families. In the Jabalia refugee camp, the Israeli warplanes continue to commit horrible war crimes by carpet-bombing entire residential neighborhoods in the camp and killing dozens of people.
According to the latest figures, the death toll of Palestinians killed by the Israeli aggression exceeded 20,000 in addition to more than 52,000 injured people. This horrible figure includes deaths of more than 8,000 children and more than 6,200 women comprising over 70% of the deaths.
Under this genocidal war on the Palestinian people, we in the Hamas Resistance Movement stress on the following:
- Despite the unprecedented horrors our people are experiencing every minute in Gaza, the people’s morale is very high, they are steadfast on their land; they will never surrender to the Israeli evil plans aimed at expelling them from their homes and areas.
- Despite this image of heroism; we still remind the entire world, the people are experiencing a human suffering that is unprecedented in our modern time. The people in Gaza are on the verge of famine under the Israeli tightened and suffocating siege.
- As of our victorious resistance in Gaza, it is inflicting everyday heavy losses on the Israeli invading forces and vehicles. The Palestinian resistance is determined to continue the fight against the Israeli criminal army, which only succeeds to show to the entire world its level of savagery and thirst-to-kill.
- As the UN Security Council yesterday postponed the voting on a resolution that calls for immediate ending of the Israeli aggression, we hold the US administration the responsibility over postponing the voting session, aimed at giving the Israeli fascist entity time to kill more of our people in Gaza.
- We affirm our firm position; we will not hold any form of talks over prisoners exchange under the continuation of the Israeli genocidal war. We are, however, open to any initiative that contributes to ending the aggression on our people.
- Our movement’s top delegation is currently in Egypt to discuss the Israeli aggression on Gaza, efforts to end it, and to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza as the quantities of aid that enters Gaza are very limited and don’t reach all areas of Gaza.
- The Hamas Movement strongly condemns the formation of a US-led maritime coalition in the Red Sea, which only aims to back the Israeli genocidal war against our people, we view this aggressive coalition as a further escalation that won’t lead to de-escalation but further expansion of the conflict. Therefore, we call on all countries to distance themselves from such suspicious coalition.
- In this regard, we highly commend the courage stance of our brothers in Yemen in standing with the Palestinian people and their resistance. We hail all resistance groups in Lebanon, Iraq and Syria for their support of the Palestinian people.
- We highly appreciate Malaysia’s stance on preventing Israeli-flagged ships to use its seaports. It is a courage stance, and we urge all countries to announce similar positions as long as the Palestinian people are deprived of their basic needs in Gaza.