Mesha'al: The Israeli occupation has failed in its war on Gaza

[ 11/01/2009 - 12:34 PM ]

DAMASCUS, (PIC)--

Khaled Mesha'al, the political bureau chairman of the Hamas Movement, said that the Israeli occupation terrorist government has completely failed in its war stressing that with their ugly crimes they have created resistance in every house and every town when their stated aim was to destroy the resistance.

He said in a televised speech on Saturday evening that the Israeli occupation terrorist government war is not a war against Hamas, it is a war against all Palestinian people, against the Palestinian cause and against the whole Ummah.

He said that the occupation set its aims, but these aims started to erode with time, the enemy wanted to end the Hamas control of Gaza, end the resistance and put a strop to resistance rockets to impose solutions that will lead to the liquidation of the Palestinian cause.

He added that the Israeli occupation terrorist government has failed in its aim, but admitted that it succeeded in something else; "It succeeded in its shameful atrocities against our children and women, in numerous massacres, in locking people in their homes then treacherously bombing those homes, kidnapping and executing [Palestinian young men] and committing a real holocaust in Gaza."

His message to the Zionist Israeli occupation terrorist government was that with their ugly war on Gaza, they have killed the last chance of a peaceful resolution because the people stopped believing in such a process after years of futile negotiations.

He added that with these atrocities against the Palestinian children and women in the Gaza Strip, the Zionist entity has succeeded in shortening its own life.

Four Hamas conditions for accepting a new truce

With regard to political moves and initiatives Mesha'al said nothing less than a:

 (1) complete halt of the aggression,

(2) withdrawal of occupation troops,

(3) total lifting of the siege, and

(4) opening all crossings, topped by the Rafah border crossing.

He championed in this respect a new agreement on administering the Rafah border terminal.

He stressed that the Palestinians have the right to resist as long as there is occupation and that his movement will not accept any initiative compromising Palestinian rights.

He also rejected the deployment of international forces in Gaza and said that they would be considered as another foreign occupation army.

The Hamas leader finally called on the Arab countries to convene in an emergency summit to deal with the situation in Gaza.

Haniya: Israel must stop the slaughter, withdraw, lift the siege

[ 16/01/2009 - 12:15 PM ]

LONDON, (PIC)--

In an article published in the Independent on Thursday, the Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haneyya laid down Hamas's conditions for a truce with the Israeli occupation forces.

"Our condition for a new ceasefire is clear and simple. Israel must end its criminal war and slaughter of our people, lift completely and unconditionally its illegal siege of the Gaza Strip, open all our border crossings and completely withdraw from Gaza," Haniya wrote.

He emphasized that Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in 2005 was not an end of occupation as Israel kept control of land, sea and air of Gaza, and thus Israel was still responsible for Gaza as an occupying power.

He also pointed out that the Israeli occupation forces killed 1250 Palestinians, including 222 children, in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip between 2005 and 2008, adding that for most of that time the border crossings to the Gaza Strip were closed allowing only limited quantities of food, fuel and other essential goods.

The Prime Minster also asserted that having failed to quash the Palestinian democratic will through treachery and starvation, Israel supported by its western allies resorted to this criminal war on Gaza to "impose its own terms for a final settlement depriving us of our land, our right to Jerusalem as the rightful capital of our future state and the Palestinian refugees' right to return to their homes."

He said that Israel did not respect the six-month truce that was in place before this latest Israeli genocidal war on Gaza, as it killed many Palestinians during the truce and did not lift the siege which was a condition of the truce.

He also stressed that Israeli atrocities and targeting of schools, universities, mosques and civil infrastructure would not deter the Palestinian people from pursuing their national rights.

" Undoubtedly, Israel could demolish every building in the Gaza Strip but it would never shatter our determination or steadfastness to live in dignity on our land."