GAZA (Palestine Foundation Information Center) Ezzat al-Resheq, senior member of Hamas’s media office, dismissed recent remarks by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a reflection of psychological defeat rather than grounded military reality.
In a brief statement posted to his Telegram channel early Wednesday, al-Resheq asserted that Netanyahu’s claims—that all Israeli captives would be released and that Hamas would surrender—are detached from facts on the ground.
“After the enemy leadership has openly admitted its abject failure to recover its captives through military means, it has become evident that the only path to their release lies in a serious agreement with the resistance,” he said.
The senior Hamas official emphasized that Gaza would not surrender and that it is the resistance—not the occupation—that will dictate the terms. “Just as we imposed the equations, we will impose the conditions,” he asserted.
Netanyahu, speaking from Washington, declared that the war would only end when Hamas is fully dismantled both militarily and politically, and when Gaza “no longer poses a threat.” He claimed that the war’s “final outcome” would be the full release of Israeli captives and the surrender of Hamas.
Al-Resheq’s remarks come as resistance factions in Gaza continue to confront the Israeli occupation forces, now entering the 21st month of an unrelenting genocide that has killed and injured over 194,000 Palestinians.
