GAZA (Dispatches) -- A member of the political bureau of Hamas says the Gaza Strip-based resistance has begun producing thousands of new rockets after the occupying regime of Israel’s latest war on the besieged enclave.
“With the end of the Israeli regime’s latest aggression, the Palestinian resistance has resumed the process of rocket production,” Fathi Hamad said.
“Our factories and workshops have restarted producing thousands of rockets to stop Netanyahu’s intransigence in Al-Quds and Tel Aviv,” he said of the Zionist PM Benjamin Netanyahu.
The resistance began responding to the Zionist war last month by launching incessant rocket barrages. More than 4,000 rockets were fired during the reprisal, with the projectiles flying as far as Al-Quds, Tel Aviv, and even the cities of Haifa and Nazareth that lie in the northern part of the occupied territories.
The retaliation that turned out unprecedented in terms of range and decisiveness, forced the occupying regime to accept a ceasefire last Friday.
The war martyred at least 253 Palestinians, including 66 children, 39 women, and 17 elderly people, and wounding some 1948 others.
On Sunday, Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar said the battle against the Zionist regime’s occupation and aggression is to last as long as Tel Aviv keeps up its atrocities against the Palestinians.
“The option of war against Israel and its discriminatory measures against the Palestinians is still there,” he said.
“Palestinians are not after war, because it carries heavy costs. However, this war will last forever because Israel has occupied our lands, displaced our people, and continues to engage in carnage,” Sinwar said.
Leading Zionist newspaper Haaretz said Israel’s military doctrine assumes periodic “wars between the wars” in its confrontation with Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas.
“But it’s failing: with each round of fighting, Israel’s strategic position erodes even further,” it said Monday.
Israeli journalist and Army Radio commentator Jackie Khoji wrote on Sunday that after 30 years of military operations against Palestinians, the resistance in Gaza is becoming stronger than Israel.
Khoji wrote on the Israeli newspaper Maariv, questioning how Hamas and Islamic Jihad succeeded in surpassing the occupying regime of Israel.
Despite heavy attacks that also destroyed buildings, Hamas and Gaza groups continue to threaten the Zionist regime as if there were no offensive at all, he said, adding the leadership of the Palestinian factions is also becoming bolder.
Hamas, Khoji wrote, dared to fire rockets at Jerusalem Al-Quds. After the artilleries stopped, they did not wait long to fly incendiary balloons and send threats to Israel, declaring: “Our hand is still on the trigger ready to respond to Israel’s violations in Jerusalem.”
“This absolutely was not a practice of a defeated leadership,” Khoji said, pointing out that the Palestinian resistance groups are repeatedly humiliating the Zionist regime.
Previous experience, he said, has taught us that Israel’s power in Gaza has faded and Sinwar’s speech following the offensive proved this.
The Israeli journalist indicated that the Palestinian resistance’s ability to read the occupying regime’s mind has improved, and it is able to decide how and where to put pressure by using incendiary balloons, rockets or mediators.
“Every measure is designed to meet certain needs at a certain time,” he said.
The Palestinian resistance, according to Khoji, has been aware of what is happening in Occupied Palestine for years. Therefore, when Israel takes decisions related to Hamas, they usually stem from the occupying regime’s needs – for elections or revenge.
However, when the resistance takes its strategic decisions, “this is based on its leadership’s awareness about what is happening in Israel,” he said.
He pointed out that most resistance leaders had once been in Israeli prisons, learned Hebrew and closely knew the Israelis. This makes it easy for the resistance to take its strategic decisions, he added.
Khoji said no one expected that the resistance would have won after the last Israeli offensive.
After every offensive, the Palestinian resistance comes out with its head held high and stronger than before, he said.
“It is time to ask ourselves, what was our mistake?” the Israeli Army Radio analyst wrote
“If the army has been bragging about destroying the infrastructure of these people for 30 years, why do they become stronger? Why do Hamas leaders become more courageous and less afraid of Israel? Have they decoded Israel’s DNA, surpassing Israel generation after generation?” he added.