AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Hezbollah’s deputy chief says the Israeli massacre at the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza where hundreds of Palestinians were killed and wounded is a “terrible defeat” for the regime.
Hezbollah Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem said on Saturday that the “despicable” attack on Nuseirat represents no achievements for the Israelis.
“The Israeli military said the attack was part of an offensive to release four Israeli captives held by the Hamas resistance movement; however, the Zionist enemy did not tell people that the price paid to get them out of [Gaza] was 120,000 Palestinian men and women wounded and martyred [during the war] in addition to thousands of dead and wounded Israelis,” Sheikh Qassem said.
“If we talk about this event, we say that it is despicable, and we say that it is considered a terrible defeat that Israel will not be able to release some of its prisoners except after terrible crimes, and after it has killed and wounded thousands of Israeli soldiers.”
“What achievement is this?” he asked.
According to Gaza’s Government Media Office, the Israeli massacre at the Nuseirat refugee camp killed 210 Palestinians and wounded more than 400.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) says Al-Aqsa and Nasser hospitals are swamped by an “overwhelming number of severely injured patients, many of whom are women and children.”
Hamas said later that other Israeli captives were killed by the Israeli attack on the camp, not specifying the circumstances or how many were killed.
Elsewhere, Sheikh Qassem said the resistance will be “victorious” pointing out that Hamas Operation Al-Aqsa Strom already constituted a “great achievement” for the Palestinians.
“Today the whole world is talking about the Palestinian issue, demonstrating in solidarity with Palestinians, and holding protest rallies against the Zionist regime,” he said.
He added that several countries have withdrawn their diplomats from the Israeli-occupied territories in protest at Israeli atrocities in Gaza, and more than 140 members of the United Nations have recognized a Palestinian state.
“And none of these existed prior to Operation Al-Aqsa Storm,” Sheikh Qassem underscored.
“Such monsters, the Israelis, and the US administration that sponsors them, cannot make any success, no matter how long it takes,” he concluded.
Nuseirat massacre not changing terms for captive release: Islamic Jihad
Meanwhile, Mohammad al-Hindi, deputy secretary-general of the Islamic Jihad resistance movement, said on Saturday that the Israeli attack on the Nuseirat camp will not affect the prisoner-for-captive exchange agreement between the occupying regime and the Palestinians
He said the Gaza-based group will not engage in any deals unless the Israeli regime abides by the conditions of Palestinian resistance factions.
“The occupation [offensive] in Nuseirat will not affect the exchange deal, as there is no exchange without fulfilling the conditions of resistance,” he added.
“The resistance front does not give in to any pressure to accept the prisoner exchange deal with Israel. We only want a cessation of the ongoing military aggression and withdrawal of occupiers,” Hindi pointed out.
Hindi also noted that the Zionist enemy tends to “exaggerate” its military offensives.
“What is quite clear is that the effect of Israeli attacks is limited. The enemy has so far failed to defeat the resistance front in Gaza, and has been unable to secure the release of its captives.”
......................
End/ 257