GAZA STRIP (Dispatches) – The Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad resistance movement, say they are ready to battle the Zionist regime in the Gaza Strip, Jenin and across all occupied cities and will continue to resist until freeing Palestine.
In a statement marking the anniversary of their victory in the occupying regime’s war on the Gaza Strip, Operation al-Quds Sword, the Al-Quds Brigades said that a year after the 11-day war, the resistance has become stronger and more equipped and is ready to fend off any invasion or “idiocy of the Israeli enemy.”
Gaza-based resistance forces launched Operation Al-Quds Sword last May in defense of Palestinians in Al-Quds against the occupying regime’s atrocities and desecration of the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
During that operation, Palestinian resistance groups overwhelmed the Zionist regime by firing over 4,000 rockets and missiles into the occupied territories.
The statement said that Al-Quds Brigades are prepared for any sacrifice and fight against the Zionist enemy in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank city of Jenin and all occupied cities.
“The Zionist enemy was utterly humiliated during Operation Al-Quds Sword and concealed many facts about its defeats and casualties,” the statement said, adding, “Losses and casualties inflicted upon the Zionist regime over the course of the operation exceeded the numbers announced in Israeli television and media.”
Meanwhile, Hamas warned that a far-right Zionist group’s call to demolish the Dome of the Rock in the occupied Old City of Al-Quds and build a temple on its ruins is “playing with fire” and will backfire on the occupying regime.
Hamas made the warning in a statement after the Lehava group, which has earned infamy among Palestinians as a “terrorist” outfit, put out the call in an online post, the Palestinian Information Center reported.
Hamas censured such incitement as a “deliberate provocation of the feelings of the Palestinian people and the Muslim nation” and a “dangerous escalation against the Palestinian identity, values and holy sites.”
The Palestinian resistance movement added, “The flames that are being tampered with by such extremist groups will rebound upon” the Israeli regime and its leaders.
Hamas called on the Palestinian masses to intensify their presence at Al-Aqsa Mosque to protect the holy site against intended settler break-ins and to stand firm in the face of the occupation and “its dangerous Judaization plots.”