Hamas: Israel's claims of having no intention to escalate is disinformation

[ 05/11/2008 - 05:38 PM ]

GAZA, (PIC)--

The Hamas Movement on Wednesday stated that the Israeli occupation government war minister's declaration that Israel still want the calm and has no intention to escalate is "disinformation" and another trick to deceive the public opinion after he murdered six Palestinian fighters.

In an exclusive statement to the PIC, Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum underlined that the Israeli occupation took advantage of the worldwide preoccupation with the American presidential elections to commit this heinous massacre against a group of resistance fighters in order to disturb the dialog atmosphere.

Regarding the possibility of continuing the calm with Israel, Barhoum said that this matter must be discussed with other Palestinian resistance factions which are parties to the truce agreement in order to review it again.

The spokesman also pointed out that Hamas is always in contact with the Egyptian leadership in its capacity as the truce agreement broker either to brief it on Israel's violations against the calm or to urge it to curb Israeli assaults on Gaza.

Israeli security sources had claimed following a special meeting called by Israeli war minister Ehud Barak to assess the situation after the military aggression on Gaza that Israel wants to keep the calm.

The IOF troops admitted this morning that four of its soldiers were wounded during confrontations with Palestinian resistance fighters in central Gaza and two settlers sustained injuries after rocket attacks which led also to a power outage in the Majdal settlement.

Al-Qassam: The Israeli military aggression puts the truce on the line

 [ 05/11/2008 - 04:23 PM ]

GAZA, (PIC)--

Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, stated Wednesday that the heinous Israeli occupation forces  aggression last night, which claimed the lives of six of its fighters, puts the truce on the line, holding Israel fully responsible for all the consequences of its flagrant breach of the calm.

In a statement posted on Al-Qassam website, Abu Obeida, the spokesman for the Brigades underlined that the Palestinian resistance has the right to retaliate and the truce would not prevent it from defending the Palestinian people against the Israeli aggression.

Abu Obeida called on Egypt which sponsors the calm to declare its position clearly against Israel, pointing out that the Palestinian resistance was on the defensive and no one has the right to blame it for its retaliation to the Israeli massacre which was carried out suddenly and in a barbaric way.

In the context of its retaliation to the Israeli massacre, Al-Qassam Brigades reported that its fighters managed Wednesday morning to fire four homemade rockets on the Majdal city, north of the Gaza Strip.

Israeli media sources said that the Palestinian rocket attacks led to a power outage in large parts of the city, pointing that one of the rockets landed in the heart of the city and another fell in the southern industrial zone wounding at least two settlers.

The Brigades had announced that it fired dozens of rockets and mortar shells on Israeli settlements, cities and military posts and warned the Israeli occupation that it would pay dearly if it persisted in its aggression.

In a military communiqué received by the PIC, the Nusoor of Palestine Brigades, the armed wing of the popular front for the liberation of Palestine, claimed its responsibility for firing at dawn Wednesday a mortar shell on the Israeli Kissufim military post and a homemade rocket on the Miguen military post, east of the Masdar area.

In another communiqué received by the PIC, Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, claimed responsibility for firing two homemade rockets on the Israeli Sderot settlement.

For its part, the Brigades of Abu Ali Mustafa, the armed wing of the popular front, fired two rockets on the Sderot settlement and three mortar shells on the Kfar Azza settlement.

The Aqsa Brigades, the group of martyr Ayman Juda, also announced that its fighters managed to fire four rockets on the military posts of Kissufin and Miguen, pointing out that the rocket attacks were carried out in cooperation with Al-Quds Brigades.