200 days have passed since the Israeli occupation of Gaza. At least 34,000 Palestinians have been killed and about 77,000 injured in Israeli aggression during this time. But Hamas is not finished, instead Israeli forces are stuck in the sands of Gaza and await a humiliating defeat.
Abu Ubaydah, the spokesman for the Izzuddin al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, the ruling group in Gaza, said so. In a video speech on Tuesday, Abu Ubayda said, “Even after 200 days, the enemy is still stuck in the sands of Gaza.” They have no goal, no hope, and no desire to even free the hostages.’
“The enemy government (the Israeli government) is trying to make the world believe that they have eliminated the Al-Qassam Brigades and only the Rafah Battalion remains,” Abu Ubaydah said in the video address, according to a report by the Lebanese media Al-Maydin.
He said, ‘The Israeli occupation government is still trying to recover its lost image, which was destroyed on October 7. They are trying to present their victory by linking it to the Rafah offensive, trying to sell the lie over and over again that they have defeated all the resistance groups (Hamas) except for the Rafah battalion.”
However, Abu Ubaydah said, “Our countermeasures will take a new form and move forward in coordination with new appropriate tactics.” However, Abu Ubaydah did not give any information about the amount of damage to Hamas’s manpower at this time.
The Al-Qassam Brigades spokesman added, “The resistance fighters are repelling (Israeli forces) and will continue to rise from the ashes, rising from the rubble.” The whole world is witnessing the strength of the resistance fighters.