‘We are waging the battle of honour’: Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh

Head of Hamas’ political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, has issued a statement on the latest attack on Israel.
“The enemy besieging Gaza has planned to surprise it and escalate the aggression against our people in the Gaza Strip, in addition to the settlement and aggression that continues every moment in the West Bank, which seeks to uproot our people and expel them from their land, and the crimes of the occupation against our people in the 1948s, as it stands behind all the killing and assassination operations there, and the occupation’s continuation of detaining our prisoners for decades, and reneging on agreements when he re-arrested those liberated from the swap deal.

“For all of this, we are waging a battle of honour, resistance and dignity to defend Al-Aqsa, under the title that was announced by Brother Commander-in-Chief Abu Khaled Al-Deif, ‘Al-Aqsa Flood’.

This flood began in Gaza and will extend to the West Bank and abroad, and every place where our people and nation are present.”