Zionist PM Resorts to Threats Against Hamas Again
WEST BANK (Dispatches) – Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has threatened to land "very strong blows” on the Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, in defiance of the international outcry against the massacre of Gazans by Zionist troops.
"Hamas has apparently not understood the message – if these attacks do not stop, they will be stopped in another way, in the form of very, very strong blows,” the Zionist premier said during the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday.
The coastal sliver has been under a crippling Zionist siege since 2007, which has prevented some two million Palestinians from having free access to the remainder of Palestine and the outside world.
The tight blockade has also undermined living conditions in the enclave and fragmented its economic and social fabric, causing unprecedented unemployment and poverty.
The occupying regime carries out regular air raids on inhabitants of Gaza under the pretext of hitting alleged positions of Hamas, which governs the enclave and has defended it against three wars waged by the regime.
"We are very close to another type of action which would include very strong blows. If Hamas is intelligent, it will cease fire and violence now,” Netanyahu added.
Zionist war minister Avigdor Lieberman ordered to halt fuel deliveries to the strip, after fresh anti-occupation protest rallies along the border separating the sliver from the occupied territories saw seven Gazan protesters killed by the regime’s fire.
Since Tuesday, October 9, Qatari-bought fuel had been delivered to Gaza in an attempt to alleviate the humanitarian situation in the blockaded enclave and prevent any further escalation in the conflict.
According to a deal brokered by the United Nations, Doha pledged to pay $60 million for desperately-needed fuel to be brought into the Gaza Strip over the span of six months in a an attempt to supply the strip’s sole power plant, which provides the impoverished enclave with some of its electricity needs, particularly for its hospitals and medical centers. Gazans currently receive only three or four hours of electricity a day.
Masked youth cadets from the Ezzedeen al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, march in the Gaza city of Khan Yunis on September 15, 2017.
"Hamas has apparently not understood the message – if these attacks do not stop, they will be stopped in another way, in the form of very, very strong blows,” the Zionist premier said during the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday.
The coastal sliver has been under a crippling Zionist siege since 2007, which has prevented some two million Palestinians from having free access to the remainder of Palestine and the outside world.
The tight blockade has also undermined living conditions in the enclave and fragmented its economic and social fabric, causing unprecedented unemployment and poverty.
The occupying regime carries out regular air raids on inhabitants of Gaza under the pretext of hitting alleged positions of Hamas, which governs the enclave and has defended it against three wars waged by the regime.
"We are very close to another type of action which would include very strong blows. If Hamas is intelligent, it will cease fire and violence now,” Netanyahu added.
Zionist war minister Avigdor Lieberman ordered to halt fuel deliveries to the strip, after fresh anti-occupation protest rallies along the border separating the sliver from the occupied territories saw seven Gazan protesters killed by the regime’s fire.
Since Tuesday, October 9, Qatari-bought fuel had been delivered to Gaza in an attempt to alleviate the humanitarian situation in the blockaded enclave and prevent any further escalation in the conflict.
According to a deal brokered by the United Nations, Doha pledged to pay $60 million for desperately-needed fuel to be brought into the Gaza Strip over the span of six months in a an attempt to supply the strip’s sole power plant, which provides the impoverished enclave with some of its electricity needs, particularly for its hospitals and medical centers. Gazans currently receive only three or four hours of electricity a day.
Masked youth cadets from the Ezzedeen al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, march in the Gaza city of Khan Yunis on September 15, 2017.