On Thursday, Taher Al-Nono, media advisor to the head of the political bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), called on the Arabs to wave the oil card and invest in their relations with Washington to put pressure on the Israeli occupation.
Al-Nono said in his speech to Tel Aviv Tribune that “it is time to take a clear Arab position and activate the committees that have been formed in this regard.”
Al-Nono’s speech came on the sidelines of the escalating rate of displacement of residents in the northern Gaza Strip in light of the continuation of the most violent Israeli military operation since the beginning of the current war.
The Arab countries had taken a decision to ban Arab oil to confront the Israeli expansion towards Arab lands, and it targeted the United States and the countries that supported the Israeli occupation in the October 1973 war.
Because of this decision, the American economy incurred huge losses, and its period extended from October 17, 1973 until March 18, 1974.
A disaster beyond imagination
The Hamas leader described what is happening in the northern Gaza Strip as “a disaster whose title is absolute international and Arab silence,” and he considered silence regarding the occupation’s crimes “a participation in them.”
He said that what is happening in the northern Gaza Strip exceeds all imagination of human tragedies, calling on the people and the nation to protest tomorrow, Friday, in support of the steadfastness of the people of Gaza.
The Hamas leader stressed the need for people to express their rejection of what is happening, calling on them to “prove to the occupation that our nation is still alive.”
On October 6, the occupation army announced the start of a new military operation in Jabalia under the pretext of “preventing the Hamas movement from regaining its power in the region.”
Military experts say that Israel is moving forward with implementing the “generals’ plan,” which stipulates besieging residents in the northern Gaza Strip and displacing them in order to impose a “closed military zone.”
Al-Nono stressed that bombing hospitals anywhere in the world is “a terrorist act par excellence, but bombing them in Gaza does not move anyone.”
In this context, sources reported to Tel Aviv Tribune that the occupation forces are besieging Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, in addition to besieging tens of thousands of residents in the Beit Lahia project, the town of Beit Lahia, and the Jabalia camp in the north.
The occupation forces also burned dozens of homes in the Beit Lahia project area, while a medical source reported to Tel Aviv Tribune that 820 martyrs had fallen in the ongoing Israeli military operation in the Jabalia camp and the northern Gaza Strip.
The Civil Defense Service in the Gaza Strip announced, at dawn on Thursday, that it had completely stopped its work in the North Governorate, after the occupation army arrested 5 of its members, directly targeted 3 others, and bombed the only fire truck in the north of the Strip.
Al-Nono held Israel responsible for failing to reach any agreement that would end the war and lead to a prisoner exchange deal, and said, “At every negotiating station, the occupation commits major crimes to obstruct any path to a solution.”
Yesterday, Wednesday, Hamas leader Sami Abu Zuhri said that the occupation government and the United States do not want to reach any agreement to stop the war, and that they only want to recover the prisoners and continue the aggression.
He confirmed in an interview with Tel Aviv Tribune that the movement had not received any new proposal from the United States to stop the war, and that Hamas was ready for any agreement that would lead to stopping the war and withdrawing the occupation forces from the Gaza Strip.