Israeli attacks on Gaza ‘brutal revenge against innocent civilians’: Hamas
The Palestinian resistance group Hamas said the increasing intensity of Israeli attacks on Gaza “is not just military pressure, but rather brutal revenge against innocent civilians.”
It called on the international community to do its part to stop the Israeli violence.
“Increasing the pace of aggression will not break the will of our people, but rather raise the level of defiance, stubbornness, and determination to confront the aggression,” Hamas said in a statement published on Telegram.
“Netanyahu’s policy of revenge against children, women, and the elderly is not a plan to achieve a supposed victory, but rather a recipe for inevitable failure.”
The group also warned that the military escalation would not return Israeli captives alive. “It threatens their lives and kills them. Their return is only possible through negotiation,” it added.
According to Gaza’s Health Ministry on Tuesday, at least 58 Palestinians were killed and 213 injured in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip in just 24 hours.
Israel resumed major strikes on the Gaza Strip on March 18, ending a two-month cease-fire with Hamas.
According to the Gaza’s civil defense agency, five children and four adults were killed in a strike that hit a home in the central city of Deir el-Balah, while two separate pre-dawn attacks on Gaza City and Beit Lahia in the north left a total of 10 people dead.
Separately, a media outlet affiliated with the Islamic Jihad movement announced the death on Monday of an employee named Ahmed Mansur in an Israeli strike on a tent used by journalists in the Khan Yunis area.
The Government Media Office in Gaza had on Monday reported the death of journalist Hilmi al-Faqaawi, who worked for a local news agency, in the same strike, which also wounded another nine.
According to the Gaza health ministry, at least 1,391 Palestinians have been killed in the renewed Israeli operations, taking the overall death toll since the start of the war to 50,752.