GAZA STRIP (Dispatches) – A senior leader of the Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, has called on Palestinians living in refugee camps in Lebanon and Syria to launch attacks on the Zionist regime.
Mahmoud Zahar said in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday that branches of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ armed wing, in both countries should strike the occupying regime of Israel "to help us liberate Palestine”, AFP reported on Thursday.
He also denied reports of the resistance group’s involvement in a recent attack by in Egypt’s restive Sinai Peninsula, adding, "our guns are always trained on the [Zionist] enemy.”
The occupying regime launched a 50-day war on Gaza last summer that killed more than 2,200 Palestinians, including 577 children, and 73 people on the Zionist side, most of them soldiers.
The regime unleashed aerial attacks on Gaza in early July 2014 and later expanded its military campaign with a ground invasion of the Palestinian coastal enclave.