Hamas official: Israel ‘no longer able to decisively win battles’
A senior official of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says Israel is desperately seeking political advantage from its ongoing wars in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon amid its failure in both battlegrounds.
“The Israeli army is no longer able to decisively win battles, so the occupation’s leaders are fighting to secure a political advantage,” Osama Hamdan told Lebanon’s al-Mayadeen television network on Thursday.
His remarks came a few days after Israel widened its deadly bombing campaign on Lebanon, nearly a year into the regime’s genocidal onslaught on Gaza.
Hamdan warned Israel’s military of consequences if it tries to expand the scope of its acts of aggression, stressing that the resistance “will confront the escalation” and emerge victorious.
The senior Hamas official further held the United States responsible for the escalation of tensions in the region.
Despite claiming to be working towards regional stability, Washington is complicit in Israeli crimes, he said, adding that negotiations between the US and Israel are focused on their mutual interests, not ending the wars.
“If [US President Joe] Biden is serious about ending the aggression, all he has to do is stop supplying Israel with weapons and cease shielding [Israeli prime minister Benjamin] Netanyahu in the UN Security Council,” he emphasized.
“The occupation cannot endure in the face of the resistance in Palestine and Lebanon without US support.”
