Hamas: The Lebanese swap deal proved that resistance is a strategic option

[ 16/07/2008 - 05:21 PM ]

GAZA, (PIC)--

The Hamas Movement stated Wednesday that the prisoner swap deal that took place between the Lebanese resistance and the Israeli occupation proved that the resistance is the strategic option for restoring usurped rights and achieving victories.

In a press release received by the PIC, Hamas said that the Lebanese resistance imposed its honorable conditions in this deal to make a new victory over the Israeli occupation which had repeatedly declared that the outcome of the swap deal with the Lebanese resistance would be disgracing and humiliating to Israel. Hamas underlined that this deal refuted the equation of not releasing those whose hands are "stained with blood" or given high sentences, which had long been parroted by the Israeli successive governments.

Hamas held the Israeli government fully responsible for thwarting the release of its captive soldier Gilad Shalit and called on it to stop wasting time and procrastinating.

For its part, the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, highlighted that the prisoner swap deal achieved by the Lebanese resistance emphasized the legitimacy of the resistance as an effective and pioneering option to deal with the Israeli occupation.

In a press release received by the PIC, the Brigades added that the resistance proved today that the only language that the Israeli occupation understands is the language of force and struggle and that all options of settlement and peace failed to get one Palestinian released.

The Brigades underscored that the Israeli captive soldier would never see light unless Israel complied with the just Palestinian conditions, pointing out that the Israeli occupation leaders know well that their intransigence and procrastination would only increase the Palestinian resistance's insistence on its terms for concluding a prisoner swap deal with them.

The Brigades stressed that the kidnapping of more Israeli soldiers would remain a preferable option until the release of last Palestinian prisoner in Israeli jails.

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