Hamas: We’ll use all possible means to confront the Israeli aggression and siege

The Palestinian Information Center

[ 13/05/2008 – 10:47 AM ]

GAZA, (PIC)– The Hamas Movement stated that it would not mortgage the Palestinian people to the Israeli response to the truce overture and would use all possible means to confront the daily Israeli aggression and to break the suffocating siege, pointing out that whenever the Israeli occupation feels ready for the calm, the Movement will be ready. Dr. Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman, underlined in another context, that Egypt opened the Rafah border crossing only for medical cases and those who hold residence visas or citizenships of other countries and the crossing is still closed, adding that this does not address even a fraction of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Dr. Abu Zuhri also underscored that resupplying the Gaza power station temporarily with its fuel needs does not end the fuel crisis because all service sectors in the Strip still sustain complete paralysis because of this crisis. In retaliation to the ongoing Israeli crimes in Gaza and the West Bank, the Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, announced that its fighters managed to fire a home-made rocket on the Israeli Miftahim settlement, east of Khan Younis. For its part, the Israeli occupation said that an Israeli settler died and another was injured, when a Palestinian rocket fell directly on a house in the Kibbutz area, near the Gaza Strip.