Hamas: Only a ‘heavy price’ can halt the ‘most heinous genocide’ of modern times
The Gaza Strip’s Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has strongly advised the international community to decisively face the Zionist regime with the true consequences of its now-700-day war of genocide on the coastal sliver.
“If it (Zionist regime) does not pay a heavy price, it will continue its crimes, indifferent to all international positions and protests,” the group noted in a statement marking the 700th day of the genocide.
Throughout the period, “the world has witnessed, in sound and image, the most heinous genocide known to contemporary history,” it added.
According to the movement, the international community’s having sufficed so far to only issue statements of condemnation in the face of the barbaric assault “are no longer sufficient.”
“Deterrent punitive steps and measures against the Israeli occupation are necessary.”
Hamas denounced the brutal military onslaught as an act of “extermination” carried out by a “terrorist army” that was at “criminal” Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s beck and call.
The war has claimed the lives of 64,300 Palestinians, mostly women and children, besides leaving a long trail of missing people, either trapped under the rubble or subjected to forced disappearance.
To maximize fatalities and suffering, the regime has also been deploying starvation as a weapon of war by almost entirely blocking entry of vital supplies into the coastal sliver.
Hamas singled out for outright criticism the most serious escalation to be witnessed throughout the war so far, namely the regime’s underway push to seize Gaza City, Gaza Strip’s largest urban area that houses around one million Palestinians.
It lamented Netanyahu’s exhausting all his resources to evade an agreement that could both end the Gaza Strip’s plight and lead to release of the regime’s captives.
The Zionist regime’s premier’s drawn-out procrastination campaign comes despite the movement’s having showed considerable flexibility, Hamas asserted.
The movement lambasted the United States for “bearing responsibility for the continuation of genocidal crimes” through its provision of unprecedented political and military support for the regime.
It, meanwhile, commended the instances of activism and acts of support that had been staged throughout the international community in favor of the war-hit Gazans.
It especially hailed the Global Sumud Flotilla, the largest maritime mission of its kind in decades, which is travelling towards Gaza with the aim of breaking the regime’s near-total siege on the territory.