Senior Hamas leader Osama Hamdan at Hamas’ press conference today, May 7th, 2024
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Despite the massacres, genocide, displacement, and destruction of all aspects of human life, where the Nazi occupation has used excessive military force for over seven months with continuous and open American support, Netanyahu and his extremist government have not achieved any of their aggressive goals, and their plans have been shattered against the steadfastness of our people and the bravery of our resistance.

The movement's acceptance of the proposal by the mediators from Egypt and Qatar is the result of long, difficult, and complex negotiations that took place over the past weeks and months. Several proposals were presented, none of which met the resistance's conditions or the national demands of our people. We held firm to our demands, showing flexibility where necessary.

Despite the pressures and severity of the aggression, and fierce negotiations, and attempts by the enemy to intensify their aggression and fire during the rounds of negotiations, particularly at critical moments, we remained steadfast with the resilience of our people and the valor of our resistance, setting red lines that could not be compromised or relinquished.

This approval stems from the movement's responsibility towards our people in the Gaza Strip, our deep commitment to their interests, rights, principles, and sacrifices, and positively responding to the role of mediators in achieving this agreement.

Throughout these negotiations, the movement displayed a positive and responsible spirit, and attempted to overcome all obstacles that hindered reaching a satisfactory agreement. This included ensuring the rights of the Palestinian people, a complete cessation of aggression, withdrawal from all areas of the Gaza Strip, the unconditional return of displaced people to their homes and areas, and enforcing reconstruction and relief for our people, leading to a serious prisoner exchange deal.

We express our deep appreciation and thanks to the mediator brothers in Cairo and Doha, who exerted continuous and strenuous efforts to reach this agreement.

This agreement in its terms and conditions secures the main issues of our people's and resistance's demands for a permanent cessation of the aggression, complete withdrawal of the occupation from the Gaza Strip, the free return of the displaced, relief, reconstruction, ending the siege, and achieving a genuine and serious prisoner exchange.

This agreement has achieved coherence in the continuous implementation of its three, cutting off the path for the occupation, which wanted to complete one phase, secure the release of its prisoners from the resistance, and then resume its aggression against the Gaza Strip, a maneuver wholly rejected by the movement.

This agreement, which the movement has agreed to, represents the minimum that meets the demands of our people and our resistance; the movement dealt with the mediators' proposal with high flexibility and made calculated concessions within this minimum, which cannot be compromised in any way.

We have received confirmations and assurances from the mediators, upon agreeing to their proposal, that they will play a role in completing all stages of the agreement, pressuring the occupation to adhere to its terms and implement them, and not to delay or evade them. These confirmations and assurances were reiterated after announcing our agreement to their proposal.

Throughout all stages of this agreement, the movement was in constant and intense consultation with the brothers in the resistance factions, including the Secretary-General of the Islamic Jihad Movement, the fighting brother Ziyad Al-Nakhaleh, the Deputy Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, comrade Jamil Mezher, and all Palestinian resistance factions in the Gaza Strip.

This agreement represents a national consensus among all resistance forces, embodying a unified body, stance, and vision in the battlefield and in the political and negotiation arenas, genuinely reflecting the aspirations and legitimate rights of our people.

The leadership of the movement directing its negotiation delegation from Doha to Cairo, where they have now arrived, signifies the seriousness of our position in cooperatively working with the mediators, and in finalizing and accomplishing an agreement to halt the aggression. We are committed to moving forward positively at every agreed-upon stage.

The movement’s acceptance of the mediators' proposal, in contrast to the fascist behavior of Netanyahu's government and their attempts to evade reaching an agreement, places the American administration, which has baselessly accused the movement of being an obstacle to the agreement, before a clear mandate: to abandon its bias towards the zionist war criminals, to stop partnering in the crime of genocide, and to start pressing them to cease their aggression and genocide against unarmed civilians, and to stop the planned crime in the city of Rafah and their attempts to execute it.

The frivolous maneuvers of the criminal Netanyahu, through attempts to evade the obligations of the agreement via his aggressive war against our people following his personal political agenda, are apparent to everyone. At the same time, these maneuvers cannot push us to concede any rights of our people or their legitimate demands.

We emphasize that the ball is now primarily in Netanyahu's and his extremist government's court, and their behavior after our movement's approval reflects Netanyahu's determination to thwart all mediators' efforts, including those of the American administration. He does not care about the lives of his soldiers held by the resistance, who face daily threats from his army's shells and missiles due to Netanyahu's criminal policies.

Secondly, the ball is in the American administration's court, which must prove its seriousness and credibility in forcing the terrorist Netanyahu's government to implement the agreement.

The Nazi occupation army's storming of the Rafah border crossing with the Arab Republic of Egypt this morning is a crime and a severe escalation against a civilian facility protected by international law, in a blatant violation of all international norms and treaties.

The occupation's invasion and occupation of the Rafah crossing aim to exacerbate the humanitarian situation in the sector by closing it and preventing the flow of emergency relief aid through it to our besieged people who are subjected to a systematic genocide and starvation campaign by the Nazi occupation.

The occupation army's raid on Rafah, and its barbaric and criminal shelling, stubbornly pushed by Netanyahu and his extremist war officials, is an exposed attempt to sabotage all mediators' efforts to achieve an agreement to stop the aggression against our people. At the same time, it is a desperate attempt to create an illusory image of victory to save his face, but if his aggression continues, he will only face more defeats and disgrace.

In response to the zionist attack on the Rafah crossing, we call on the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to convene an urgent meeting at the level of foreign ministers, to take an immediate and effective stance to stop this violation and compel the occupation to halt its aggression against our people and our nation.

We highly appreciate the stance of our brothers in the Arab Republic of Egypt in condemning the occupation's bombing and occupation of the Rafah crossing, and we value their rejection of the occupation's request to open the crossing under these conditions, insisting on the previous mechanism. We affirm that the Rafah crossing was and will remain a purely Egyptian-Palestinian passage, with no presence of any occupying force.

Netanyahu and his Nazi government must understand that the movement and the Palestinian resistance will not respond to any initiative to stop the aggression or any prisoner exchange deal under military pressure and escalation of aggression, and that these illusions will vanish into thin air.

We call on the United Nations and the international community to pressure the occupation to stop this escalation that threatens the lives of hundreds of thousands of displaced civilians in Rafah and across the Gaza Strip, as well as threatens all efforts by mediators to stop the aggression and genocide.

We assert that the military operation in Rafah, if pursued by the enemy, will not be a walk in the park for the terrorist occupation army, which will ultimately drag the tails of failure and exit humiliated as it did in all areas it entered in the Gaza Strip, where it was humiliated by the hands of the fighters of the Al-Qassam Brigades, Saraya Al-Quds, and the Palestinian resistance.


Source: Resistance News Network Telegram page

This is a provocative speech, this is why Israel never listens to anybody when dealing with these terrorists because they are never repentant nor remorseful . They threw the first punch by killing israelis and kidnapping many others, Israel has a right to defend her people. Long live Israeli and shame to all terrorists and their supporters

So - if you’re wondering how come Hamas doesn’t have that many hostages alive and if you’re still thinking that the civilians in Gaza are so innocent:

Read and hear ‼️

"I haven't slept for four days!"

Eli Shatvi, the father of Idan, who was kidnapped in Gaza, described the atrocities committed by the Gazan citizens on 7/10 from videos he was exposed to that Israel isn’t publishing yet for privacy of the families.

1. Dozens of abductees were tied by their legs to cars and dragged along the road in a 'victory procession' across Gaza.
Until there is nothing left of their faces!

2. The whole street cheered! Women and children tore off organs as souvenirs!

3. Male abductees are also being raped, shaved, and dressed in women's clothes.

"If we are talking about education and conveying a message to the world - we need to show these films"