Excerpts from the speech of Abu Obeida

Abu Obeida, the military spokesman for the Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian Resistance movement Hamas, gave a speech on the 200th day of war, to illustrate the achievements of the Resistance and the failures of the criminal Israeli army.

We call on the masses of our nation to escalate their movement in support of the resistance. The criminal enemy is trying to restore its image 200 days after the Battle of Al-Aqsa Flood

 “The criminal enemy continues to try to salvage its image, only to further receive shame and disgrace.

200 days have passed and the Zionist army is still trapped in the quagmire of Gaza, exploiting its predicament on the ground for more killing and destruction.

 The occupation army failed against our resistance and our people after its image was shattered in front of the world.

We say to Netanyahu, Your death, the end of your occupation, and your downfall are inevitable, and your lamentations before the world will not change your image.

We in Al-Qassam Brigades have documented only a fraction of our heroes’ strikes against the enemy.

Our strikes and resistance will continue as long as the aggression of the occupation or its presence persists on any inch of our land.

The world witnessed the might of our fighters and their painful strikes not only in repelling enemy attacks but also during its withdrawal.

Among the lies of the enemy government is attempting to deceive the world into believing that it has eliminated the Al-Qassam Brigades and only the Rafah Brigade remains.

The occupation forces are trying to deceive the world into believing that they have eliminated all factions of the resistance, and this is a big lie.

In 200 days, the enemy could only achieve mass killings, destruction, and murder.

The defeat suffered by the occupation army in 60 minutes couldn’t defeat us in 200 days. They search for an imaginary victory everywhere, but wherever they look for it, they find us there shedding their soldiers’ blood.

Our strikes against the enemy will continue, adopting renewed tactics as long as they remain present on every inch of our land.

The occupation’s claims of linking victory to entering Rafah and destroying what remains of the brigades there are merely attempts to feel a false sense of triumph.

The army that focuses on killing children and women, destroying graves, seeking revenge against the martyrs’ bodies, targeting innocent civilians, bombing aid trucks, and assassinating members of international and local humanitarian aid organizations is the mark of an army feeling significant defeat and disappointment, not one confident in its alleged achievements.

We will not relinquish the fundamental rights of our people, foremost among them withdrawal, lifting the siege, and the return of the displaced to their homes.

The occupation is trying to evade all its promises in negotiations and wants to gain more time.

The scenario of Ron Arad may perhaps be the most likely scenario to be repeated with the enemy’s prisoners in Gaza. The ball is in the court of those concerned, namely the occupation’s public, but time is short, and opportunities are few to release the prisoners.

The so-called military pressure will only push us to stand firm on our positions and preserve the rights of our people without compromise.

To the families of the Israeli prisoners, We are more truthful than your government.

The blood toll paid by our people will only be met with the snatching of our natural rights and the rights of our resistance.

One of the goals of Al-Aqsa Flood is to unify our peoples and arenas after attempts by the occupation to isolate the Palestinian cause.

We appreciate every military and popular effort that joins Al-Aqsa Flood, and we salute the fronts of fighting in Lebanon, Yemen, and Iraq.

The hysterical reaction of the Zionists towards resistance actions from various fronts indicates the importance of resistance action.

The foremost front of resistance is the West Bank front, and we salute every inch of our steadfast free bank.

Jordan is from us and we are from it; it is one of the most important Arab arenas in terms of popular and public engagement and it occupies the enemy’s mind significantly.

Iran’s response in its size and nature, setting new rules and disrupting the calculations of the occupation, and we call on the masses of our nation to escalate their supportive movement for the resistance.

Abu Obeida concluded the speech by calling on the masses of our nation to escalate their supportive movement for the resistance.

Courtesy: Information Clearing House

Palestinians halt Israeli ground offensives

The al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas fired anti-tank missiles at Israeli forces on Tuesday, troops were trying to infiltrate south of Gaza city. 

A Hamas spokesman confirmed the presence of Israeli tanks in Salah ad-Deen highway, located in the middle of the Strip, which he pointed out the Palestinian resistance forces have prevented them from moving north toward Gaza city. 

Reports from inside Gaza have also said that attacks by the resistance fighters forced the occupation troops to withdraw from the Salah ad-Deen area, east of the Zeitoun neighborhood in central Gaza, following heavy clashes. 

Hamas also attacked two Israeli tanks and bulldozers in northwest Gaza with missiles.

The al-Qassam brigades added its fighters targeted Israeli forces with Al-Yassin 105 shells, and destroyed a Zionist vehicle east of Erez (located one kilometer north of the Gaza Strip), with an explosive device and two Al-Yassin 105 shells.

The Israeli military acknowledged that its troops were attacked by anti-tank missiles and machine gunfire. 

Reports from inside Gaza say the resistance engaged in heavy clashes with the occupation, east of the Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip, and thwarted the regime's incursion attempt.

The Palestinian resistance is said to have inflicted casualties on the occupation ranks after confronting regime troops at the Karam Abu Salem site east of Rafah near the border with Egypt. 

Elsewhere, the resistance engaged in clashes with the occupation forces during their attempt to storm eastern Bureij.

Reports point out that the Palestinian resistance launched surface-to-air missiles to confront Israeli aircraft, believed to be drones, in the eastern Gaza Strip.

Violent clashes have also taken place, according to verified reports from inside the coastal sliver, between the resistance fighters and the occupation forces east of the town of al-Qarara, which is located near the southern city of Khan Yunis.

The heavy clashes indicate two main points. 

One is that Palestinian resistance factions have heavily disrupted Israeli attempts to advance into urban areas of the Gaza Strip, restricting the regime's troops to the enclaves' borders and agricultural land, which it had bombed before. 

There are no military achievements so far, according to Hamas spokesman Hazem Qasim. 

This is contrary to Western reporters who are spreading unverified information while outside the Gaza Strip and relying mainly on Israeli military statements. 

The Israeli military has forbidden any reporters to accompany them into the battlefield. 

Experts say this is supposed to avoid reports being published of any ambushes and traps, and would essentially increase the anger of Israelis watching on intensely across the occupied territories and beyond.

Secondly, the fierce exchange of fire and airstrikes in the Southern Gaza Strip debunk the Israeli myth that it would have been safe for Palestinians to travel south. 

A series of Israeli raids have targeted residential areas east of Khan Yunis city in the southern Gaza Strip, as well as other areas in the south where the regime is bombing civilian sites and trying to conduct military operations by land. 

Actually, for the civilian population trapped in Gaza there is nowhere to run or to hide.  

The high level of Israeli bombings so far (from the air, sea and land) has not stopped Palestinian resistance forces in the Gaza Strip from launching retaliatory operations. 

Israeli media reported that air raid sirens sounded in many settlements, including Netiv Haasara, Kissufim, Erez, Ashkelon, Zikim, and Sderot as a result of Palestinian rocket barrages on Monday and Tuesday. 

These are mostly settlements north and northeast of the Gaza Strip, where the Israeli military claims to be attacking with more intensity. 

Air raid sirens sounded in the Red Sea settlement of Eilat with an Israeli military warning of an approaching aerial target. 

A statement warned of a possible hostile aircraft intrusion. The Israeli military said its systems identified an aerial target approaching Israeli (occupied Palestinian) territory.

Unconfirmed reports on Israeli radio have suggested that a drone was spotted over the Red Sea.

Hours later, Israeli media reported fresh explosions in Eilat with a flying object spotted. 

Eilat is a large southern Israeli settlement that has come under constant fire (during the current war on Gaza) by long-range missiles launched from the strip.

However, reports have emerged that the explosions may be the result of projectiles fired from Yemen in response to the regime's massacre of civilians in Gaza. 

Israeli media has reported that the first test of the land (operations) appears to have been disappointing, noting that the government is gambling with the lives of soldiers in Gaza.

This is while the al-Qassam brigade issued another brief statement on Tuesday afternoon stating that it was eliminating a Zionist force after it entered a building in Beit Hanoun, inside which our fighters were present and ambushed the force while targeting (another) bulldozer and a vehicle.