The head of the Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip Al-Sinwar told a news conference with foreign and domestic media that the resistance had suffered no casualties after the war.
Hamas leader Yahya Al-Sinwar says the Gaza Strip-based resistance movement is capable of launching hundreds of missiles with a range of up to 200 km towards the Israeli-occupied territories in one minute.
“The resistance has the ability to fire hundreds of missiles with a range of 100-200 kilometers per minute at the Zionist enemy,” Al-Sinwar said at a press briefing on Wednesday, adding that what the resistance demonstrated in defending Gaza was only a fraction of it capabilities.
The latest escalation was triggered by the Israeli forces who tried to force Palestinian families from their homes in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of the occupied Jerusalem al-Quds, followed by a violent onslaught on worshipers at the sacred al-Aqsa Mosque during the holy fasting month of Ramadan.
The Israeli regime then embarked on a brutal military offensive against civilian areas in the besieged Gaza Strip earlier this month, targeting high-rise buildings housing residential apartments and media offices.
Sinwar noted that, toward the end of the war, Hamas aborted a plan for the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the movement’s military wing, to effectively put an end to the Israeli aggression by launching “300 missiles in one go” at the occupied territories.
‘Hamas tunnels not damaged’
The Israeli regime failed to implement any of its schemes or hit resistance positions, including Hamas’ missile arsenals, he said, rejecting Israeli claims that Hamas-built tunnels were damaged in Israeli bombardments.
The tunnels are used to transfer humanitarian goods into blockaded Gaza.
“We have more than 500 km of tunnels in the Gaza Strip, and the damage is no more than five percent,” he said.
The regime has waged four wholesale wars against Gaza, three in the 2000s that each killed thousands of Gazans, and the latest 12-day one that killed more than 250 Palestinians, including 66 children and 39 women.
Sinwar stressed that the Palestinian nation will not cease resistance until victory.
