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<h1 class="gmail-single_title">Hamas: Al-Aqsa flood is natural extension of our people’s resistance to occupation</h1>
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<p>GAZA, (PIC)</p>
<p>The Hamas Movement said that the ongoing Al-Aqsa flood battle has
consolidated the solidarity of the Palestinian people inside and outside
of Palestine and has proven to the world that Palestinians cannot be
defeated, because they do not surrender or abandon their right to their
land, freedom, and independence no matter how long it takes, and no
matter how strong the enemy is.</p>
<p>The Movement pointed out that the Al-Aqsa flood battle restored the
Palestinian cause to its global presence, as a just issue of national
liberation, freedom, independence, and self-determination, leading to
the establishment of a fully sovereign Palestinian state with Jerusalem
as its capital.</p>
<p>The Movement said, in a press statement on Wednesday on the occasion
of the 76th anniversary of the Nakba, that “the Al-Aqsa flood battle is a
natural extension of our people’s resistance and their legitimate right
to defend their land and sanctities.”</p>
<p>The statement added that the 76th anniversary of the painful Nakba
comes this year in light of the heroic Al-Aqsa Flood battle in the Gaza
Strip in which the resistance has been fighting against the Israeli
aggression for over 222 days.</p>
<p>The Movement affirmed that the Zionist occupation, its fascist
government, and its Nazi army did not succeed during this war in
achieving any of its aggressive goals against our people in the Gaza
Strip, despite committing horrific massacres and waging a genocidal war
that affected all aspects of human life, in which it used all types of
weapons and ammunition.</p>
<p>Hamas mourned the martyred leaders and “all martyrs of our people who
fell in the Battle of Al-Aqsa Flood in Gaza, the West Bank, Jerusalem,
and our Muslim nation, wishing a speedy recovery for the wounded and
sick, and urgent freedom of prisoners and detainees from Israeli
prisons.”</p>
<p>The Movement also praised the resoluteness of the steadfast people of
the Gaza Strip who are enduring all kinds of calamities inflicted by
Israel including displacement, killing, bombardment, starvation, and
thirst.</p>
<p>Hamas added that the ongoing Zionist aggression for 76 years and the
genocide crimes committed in Gaza for more than seven months constitute a
sign of shame for all those who remain silent and negligent in exposing
and criminalizing the Israeli crimes and those who refrain from working
to put an end to the Israeli aggression.</p>
<p>The resistance movement called on the nation and all free people in
the world “to exert pressure by all means to stop the Zionist aggression
against our land, people, and sanctities, and to support the
steadfastness and struggle of our people aspiring to freedom and
independence.”</p>
<p>The statement denounced the US administration’s support and bias
towards the ongoing Israeli aggression and crimes in the Gaza Strip, the
West Bank and Jerusalem, condemning the policy of double standards
practiced by Western powers in dealing with the issue of the Palestinian
people and their legitimate rights.</p>
<p>Hamas’s statement also praised Palestinian prisoners -women and men-
in Israeli jails, pledging to release them all, warning against
escalating Israeli violations and crimes against them, and holding
Israel fully responsible for their safety, especially those who were
arrested after October 7, 2023.</p>
<p>The Movement’s statement called on the United Nations and human
rights and humanitarian institutions to intervene by all means to
criminalize and halt Israel’s systematic violations against them.</p>
<p>It also held Israel directly responsible for the continued suffering
of millions of Palestinian refugees living in refugee camps inside
Palestine and in the diaspora, stressing that their legitimate right to
return to their homes from which they were displaced cannot be waived or
neglected.</p>
<p>In this context, Hamas urged the United Nations and UNRWA to assume
their legal and humanitarian responsibilities in supporting the rights
of refugees, providing them with relief and a decent life until their
return.</p>
<p>Hamas also addressed the masses of our people, wherever they are, to
remain steadfast in the face of the Israeli occupation and its plans.</p>
<p>The Movement hailed the resistance fighters in Jerusalem and the West
Bank, calling on them to engage in further clashes with the Israeli
occupation army and Israeli fanatic settlers, in defense of their
existence and in support of Gaza.</p>
<p>Hamas concluded its statement by paying tribute to the global
movement in solidarity with the Palestinian people and their just cause,
calling for continuing such activism in all capitals, cities, and
squares of the world, and putting pressure on the countries, governments
and institutions that support the Israeli occupation, until the Israeli
bloody aggression against the Gaza Strip is put to an end.</p>
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