Hamas threatens to barrage Israel for six months
Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar on Monday threatened that his group will continuously fire rockets at Israel for six months if the blockade on the Gaza Strip continues.
Speaking to a youth group in the Gaza Strip, Sinwar said that Hamas won’t allow the “humanitarian crisis” in the coastal enclave to continue. “We won’t wait for too long,” he said. “Israel,” he said, “should prepare for something big.”
The Gaza Strip contains 70,000 gunmen working for various Palestinian groups and security forces, he said.
Sinwar said that resolving the “humanitarian crisis” in the Gaza Strip should be at the top of the agenda of Israeli leaders. The crisis “has affected all walks of life because of the blockade and sanctions imposed on the Gaza Strip,” he added. “The blockade aims to force our people to surrender and revolt against the Palestinian resistance.”
Sinwar said that Hamas has told the Egyptian mediators that it will “strike at Tel Aviv for six full months” unless the crisis is resolved. “We have hundreds of kilometers of tunnels and thousands of anti-armored weapons and locally made rockets,” he said.
He also revealed that Hamas has formed an “operations room” together with 13 Palestinian groups to repel any Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip. Iran, he said, deserves big credit for building Hamas’s military force.
“We won’t hesitate to confront the enemy, and in the past we knew how to manage these confrontations without turning them into allout wars,” Sinwar said. “We heard statements from the leaders of the occupation threatening us, but we will make them curse the day they were born.”