The military wing of Hamas said on Thursday that Israel’s goal of eliminating the Palestinian Islamic movement that controls power in the Gaza Strip is “doomed to failure.”
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In an audio recording, the spokesman for the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Abu Ubaida, conditioned the release of the Israeli hostages held in Gaza on “a cessation of aggression,” in reference to the war that the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades have been waging against Hamas since October 7 in response to its operations. Its bloody attack on Israeli territory.
The enemy’s goal of eliminating resistance is doomed to failure. “It is a fact that has become indisputable,” the masked speaker said in the recording.
He added: “If the enemy wants to return his hostages alive, he has no other choice but to stop the aggression,” placing the cessation of hostilities as a condition for starting negotiations through mediators with the aim of releasing hostages held by Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons. .
He also claimed that the continuation of the war would lead to the death of Israeli hostages in Israeli bombing.
Shortly after the spokesman’s recording, the armed wing of Hamas released a video showing three alive Israeli hostages who were subsequently killed in Israeli raids.
