GAZA (Palestine Foundation Information Center) The Hamas spokesman Abdul Latif al-Qanua said that talks are continuing with mediators regarding “stopping the aggression against our people and working to oblige the occupation to abide by the agreement.”
In a press statement on Thursday, Al-Qanua emphasized Hamas’s adherence to the ceasefire agreement, saying “We are working with the mediators to permanently end the war and to guarantee the withdrawal of the occupation from the Gaza Strip.”
He stressed that the siege, starvation and genocidal war in Gaza requires urgent action from the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to save the Palestinian people from annihilation, prevent starvation and lift the siege.
For his part, the member of Hamas’s political bureau, Izzat al-Resheq, called for urgent and immediate action and exerting pressure by all given means, politically and popularly, to stop the criminal Israeli aggression, break the unjust siege, and save the Palestinian people from the Israeli killing and destruction.
Al-Resheq said in a press statement on Thursday, “The Zionist terrorist escalation in Gaza is a genocidal crime that calls for an uprising of the world conscience.”
“Gaza is under fire again, and the brutal Zionist aggression does not stop. Criminal attacks are escalating, targeting safe houses, tents and shelters, amid ruthless destruction and fire that does not differentiate between a child and an elderly person, a mother and an infant,” he added.
Since the occupation resumed its aggression on the Gaza Strip at dawn Tuesday, March 18, more than 550 citizens have been martyred and hundreds injured, most of them children and women.
On March 2, the first phase of the 42-day ceasefire agreement in Gaza ended, which included a prisoner exchange deal in several stages between the resistance factions and Israel and a limited withdrawal by the occupation army, followed by the return of displaced people to their destroyed homes.
Israel avoided starting the second phase of the ceasefire agreement, which would have lasted 42 days, followed by a third phase of the same duration, leading to a permanent ceasefire.
