Hamas vows to continue war of attrition as Israel rejects comprehensive ceasefire offers
Iran Press TV
Friday, 18 July 2025 7:17 PM
Hamas says the Palestinian resistance factions are all ready for a "prolonged war of attrition" with the Israeli regime.
It came after Benjamin Netanyahu rejected a comprehensive ceasefire offer from the Palestinians.
The spokesman for the Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, Abu Obeida, said on Friday that the resistance fighters are determined to either defeat the "brutal, Nazi" Israeli aggression or attain martyrdom.
He said the Tel Aviv regime broke the ceasefire and prisoner-captive exchange agreement that was reached in January.
The spokesman added that the resistance fighters in Gaza killed and injured hundreds of invading Israeli soldiers in the past month.
"Our fighters surprise the enemy with new and diverse tactics and methods after they have drawn lessons during the longest war and confrontation in the history of our people, conducting unique heroic qualitative operations."
Abu Obaida stated that the strategy of the leadership of al-Qassam Brigades at this stage is to inflict heavy casualties on the enemy's soldiers, carry out intensified qualitative operations from a zero distance and conduct operations aiming to capture invading Zionist soldiers.
He said armed resistance is an "indisputable right" and a sacred religious and national duty.
"If the enemy's terrorist government chooses to continue the war of extermination, it simultaneously decides to continue receiving the corpses of its soldiers and officers."
Meanwhile, he announced that Qassam Brigades strongly supports the stance of the Palestinian resistance's negotiating delegation in the indirect talks with the Israeli regime.
"We are closely monitoring the ongoing negotiations and working to ensure that they result in an agreement and a deal that guarantees an end to the war against our people, the withdrawal of the occupation forces, and relief for our people."
He said the Israeli prime minister is hindering a lasting ceasefire agreement.
"We have repeatedly offered in recent months to conclude a comprehensive deal under which we would hand over all the enemy's captives at once, but the war criminal Netanyahu and his ministers from this Nazi movement rejected this offer," the spokesman said.
Netanyahu's cabinet, he said, is not concerned about the captives as they are soldiers and their case is "not a priority."
Elsewhere in his remarks, Abu Obaida slammed the leaders of certain Arab regimes over their inaction on the massacres committed in Gaza, saying their silence has emboldened the Israeli regime to commit more crimes.
"Your necks are burdened with the blood of tens of thousands of innocents who have been let down by your silence."
Meanwhile, he hailed the Yemeni nation and armed forces over their pro-Gaza military operations against Israel, as well as the free people around the world who express their solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza and try to break the siege imposed on Gaza.
Since the onset of Israel's genocidal war on the Gaza Strip in October 2023, Yemeni forces have carried out scores of operations in support of the war-hit Gazans, striking targets throughout the occupied Palestinian territories, in addition to targeting Israeli ships or vessels heading towards ports in the occupied territories.
Israel launched the genocidal war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, after the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas waged the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the occupying entity in response to the Israeli regime's decades-long campaign of bloodletting and devastation against Palestinians.
The regime's bloody onslaught on Gaza has so far killed at least 67,880 Palestinians, mostly women and children, according to the health ministry of Gaza.
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