Israel to Pay for Its Crime, Hamas Says after Resistance Commanders’ Assassination
Three commanders of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad resistance movement were assassinated after Israeli forces launched targeted airstrikes on the Gaza Strip.
They were among at least 13 Palestinians were killed in the strikes and 20 others were wounded, according to Palestinian reports, with a number of sites in Gaza City, Rafah and Khan Yunis targeted, among other locations.
The Israeli military said in a statement that the Islamic Jihad resistance commanders in the strikes include Khalil Bahitini, the commander of the al-Quds Brigades in the northern Gaza Strip, Tareq Ezzaldin, a spokesperson for the movement who also manages retaliatory operations in the West Bank and Gaza, and Jihad Ghanem, secretary of the movement’s military council.
Haniyeh in a statement denounced the assassinations, saying such moves will not bring security for the occupiers.
They will only enhance the resistance against the occupation, he stressed.
“The enemy has made a mistake in its calculations and will pay the price for its crime,” he added.
Haniyeh also stressed that the resistance front is united in confronting the occupation enemy.
A spokesman for the Islamic Jihad movement, in a separate statement, said the options of the resistance to respond to the Israeli attacks are on the table.
Tariq Salmi added that the resistance will take revenge for the blood of its martyred commanders.
He went on to say that resistance will not stop until the termination of the occupation.
Meanwhile, the Lions’ Den, another Palestinian resistance group, warned the Tel Aviv regime of surprise and unprecedented retaliatory attacks after the assassination of the three high-profile resistance commanders in Israeli airstrikes.
“There is no voice more sonorous than that of the [Palestinian] resistance front,” the Nablus-based group said in a statement on Tuesday, vowing to take revenge for the blood of those martyred in Gaza.
“This time the gates of hell will open up to Zionists from Nablus,” it warned.
The Lions’ Den extended his sincere condolences over the targeted killings of three high-profile commanders of the al-Quds Brigades – the military wing of the Islamic Jihad resistance movement.
“We honor the memory of Gaza martyrs, who have reached the highest position that a man can possibly attain in his ascend towards perfection. Gaza-based resistance fighters, who avenge for any acts of aggression against Palestinians, well know how to retaliate for the assassinations,” the resistance group stated.
Addressing Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip, it said, “We are all at your command and service. There is no voice louder than those of yours and the resistance front. We are calling on all walks of Palestinian society not to get upset and not to have a feeling of despair at all.”
“We warn the occupying regime that time is running out, and the gates of hell will open up to the Zionists from Nablus,” the Lions’ Den said.
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