5/17/2024–|Last updated: 5/17/202407:22 PM (Mecca time)
Abu Ubaida, spokesman for the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), in a video speech obtained by Tel Aviv Tribune:
- 32 weeks since October 7, the people of Gaza and their resistance have been waging an unequal war and a legendary defense against the barbarism of the enemy.
- For long days, nights and weeks, the enemy and his Nazi government committed the most horrific crimes of genocide against our people.
- The enemy army brags about the crimes it committed in Gaza as military achievements.
- Intimidation, crime, and systematic destruction is the consistent strategy used by the enemy in Gaza.
- The enemy also threatened us every time that whenever he aspires to score a victory or achievement, he will find us in front of him.
- The enemy, in a series of confusion, decided to launch a ground aggression against Rafah, the Zaytoun neighborhood, and Jabalia, thinking that they had become easy targets.
- The enemy is under the illusion that if he burned the green and dry land for more than 7 months, he would find little resistance there.
- The enemy enters hell again and faces stiffer resistance.
- Within 10 days, our mujahideen were able to target 100 Zionist military vehicles on the fighting fronts in Gaza.
- In all areas of its incursion, the enemy counts its dead and wounded in dozens and hardly stops extracting its soldiers.
- The enemy announces part of its losses, but what we observe is much greater.
- Our mujahideen are confronting the enemy with great momentum on the front lines with all the weapons they have.
- We confront the enemy with anti-armor and anti-personnel weapons, bombing buildings, opening tunnels, mine fields, and sniping.
- Despite the war of starvation, destruction and killing, our resistance, and behind it our people, are emerging before the enemy from everywhere.
- Our mujahideen face a trembling and floundering force, and they return it broken, finding nothing but disappointment.
- The American weapons used to annihilate our people are causing massive destruction, which is the only achievement of this crisis-ridden enemy.
- After 224 days, we confirm that the heroic confrontation of our resistance and our people confirms our ability to withstand and fight.
- Ready for a long battle of attrition with the enemy.
- We are Gaza with its sky, air, sea and sand.
- The failure syndrome of the enemy’s leadership and the lie of military pressure to liberate prisoners is a recipe for accelerating their departure into the unknown.
- We constantly and clearly announce some cases of deaths and deaths of enemy prisoners as a result of the arrogance and deception of their government.
- We salute the heroic mujahideen of our people in the occupied West Bank who tirelessly defend our people.
- We renew our blessing for the strikes launched by our brothers on the southern front in Lebanon.
- We congratulate the operation of the Ansar al-Sidqa brothers in dear Yemen.
- Salute to our brothers in the Islamic Resistance in Iraq.
- Salute to all the free people of the world in Europe, Asia, South America and the whole world for their solidarity.
- This unprecedented solidarity that exposes the occupation expresses the earthquake that the Al-Aqsa flood caused in global consciousness.
- The result of your patience, our people, will be nothing but relief and victory.
- The Battle of Al-Aqsa Flood caused an earthquake on the level of global consciousness.
- The occupier’s persistence in his crimes, while millions chant in the name of the Palestinian people, is evidence of his greatness.