Hamas Says ‘Ready for Long War of Attrition’

Date: 19 July 2025 - 22:06

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GAZA (Dispatches) – In his first speech since March, Abu Obeida, the spokesperson for the military wing of Hamas, the Al-Qassam Brigades, on Friday evening, warned of a prolonged resistance battle amid the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza.
He slammed the Zionist regime for breaking ceasefire agreements and warned of intensified resistance, referring to recent operations carried out in the Gaza Strip.
Over the past four months, Abu Obeida said, resistance fighters have inflicted significant casualties on Zionist regime troops in response to the regime’s renewed aggression and breach of the ceasefire.
He described Gaza as “the greatest military school for a people’s resistance against their occupiers in modern history,” adding that the resistance fighters are prepared to continue the war of attrition.
He also criticized Arab and Islamic governments for failing to stop the Zionist regime’s ongoing genocide.
Meanwhile, the Palestinian resistance movement called for a global mobilization to save the Palestinians in Gaza from death by bombing, starvation, and thirst at the hands of the Israeli regime.
In a statement released on Saturday, Hamas urged the Ummah (Islamic community) and freedom advocates worldwide for a global mobilization to save the Palestinians.
The statement called for a global mobilization against the Israeli regime “through massive public demonstrations, solidarity events, raising voices loudly,” to oppose the war of genocide and starvation “until this brutal aggression ends and the unjust siege is lifted.”
The statement also referred to the regime’s flagrant violations of all human norms, divine laws, and moral values through a brutal aggression unprecedented in history, amidst international silence and failure to stop this war of extermination and starvation.
“Let tomorrow, Sunday, July 20, and the coming days be historic global days of action and international solidarity,” it said, urging freedom-lovers to “condemn the Zionist crimes of genocide and starvation against innocent civilians in Gaza, children, women, and the sick.”
The statement called on Arab, Islamic, and international communities to unite in solidarity with Gaza, condemning the genocide, starvation, and brutal aggression against over two million Palestinians.
It also urged collective action to stop these atrocities and put an end to the Zionist regime’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his “fascist gang’s contempt for international humanitarian law, covenants, and human norms.”
Dozens of Palestinian children have died from hunger in Gaza since October 2023. The healthcare system in Gaza is also on the brink of collapse due to Israel’s targeting of hospitals and health centers.