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'Ready for long war of attrition': Snippets from Hamas spox Abu Obeida's latest speech

Iran Press TV

Saturday, 19 July 2025 11:32 AM

In his first speech since March, Abu Obeida, the spokesperson for the military wing of Hamas, the Al-Qassam Brigades, on Friday evening, warned of a prolonged resistance battle amid the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

He slammed the Zionist regime for breaking ceasefire agreements and warned of intensified resistance, referring to recent operations carried out in the Gaza Strip.

Over the past four months, Abu Obeida said, resistance fighters have inflicted significant casualties on Israeli forces in response to the regime's renewed aggression and breach of the ceasefire.

He described Gaza as "the greatest military school for a people's resistance against their occupiers in modern history," adding that the resistance fighters are prepared to continue the war of attrition.

He also criticized Arab and Islamic governments for failing to stop Israel's ongoing genocide.

The following are the snippets from the Hamas military spokesperson's latest speech:

• Zionist enemy resumed its barbaric, Nazi-style aggression against our people and families in the Gaza Strip four months ago, betraying and breaking covenants, turning against the agreement made with the resistance in January, lying to mediators and the world, and pursuing its so-called "victory."
  
• For four months, the enemy has inflicted sadistic violence on (Palestinian) civilians and children, relentlessly destroying neighborhoods, cities, and residential areas. This brutal war against our people persists.
  
• For twenty-one months, our fighters have stood firm like mountains, with the patience and pride of our great, generous nation.
  
• The occupying usurpers have been haunted by shame and disgrace, compounded by abandonment from many in our Arab and Islamic communities, except for the sincere fighters, the oppressed and free peoples who uphold humanity.
  
• Recently, the enemy launched "Gideon's Chariots," a biblical myth used to justify its racist, Nazi-like war, resembling the acts of devils and cowardly gangs.
  
• We confronted "Gideon's Chariots" with "Stones of David" operations, drawing inspiration from the victory of David over Goliath, striking with precision and faith.
  
• Our fighters, alongside brotherly factions like Saraya Al-Quds, engage in an unequal battle marked by unmatched faith, strength, and determination.
  
• Hundreds of enemy soldiers have been killed or wounded, thousands suffer psychological trauma, and suicides among them are rising due to the horrors they face and commit. Our fighters use innovative tactics - attacking vehicles, sniping, ambushing, and raiding - with heroic success.
  
• The world witnessed our heroes in Khan Younis (southern Gaza) reaching enemy soldiers at point-blank range, pursuing and killing those responsible for destroying civilian homes, and seizing their weapons.
  
• Attempts to capture Zionist soldiers have come close to success, thwarted only by divine will and the enemy's brutal mass killings of their own suspected captives.
  
• Our operations span the entire Gaza Strip, from northern Beit Hanoun and Jabalia, through Gaza City neighborhoods, down to Khan Younis and Rafah, making Gaza the greatest modern school of resistance.
  
• After 21 months of the Al-Aqsa Flood battle, the Martyr Izz El-Din Al-Qassam Brigades affirm readiness for a long war of attrition, pledging steadfastness and heavy blows until victory or martyrdom.
  
• Our fight is a sacred religious and national duty, relying on faith, determination, and what little weaponry we possess, performing miracles by God's grace.
  
• Our strategy focuses on deadly, close-range operations and capturing enemy soldiers. Should the enemy continue its extermination war, it will continue to receive coffins. Their tanks and fortresses will not save them from divine justice and our faithful hands.
  
• We honor the heroism of our fighters and share the pain of our wounded and families. However, the broader nation has largely abandoned its duty, while the enemy is armed by the world's most oppressive powers.
  
• To the leaders, elites, and scholars of the Islamic and Arab nations: your silence makes you adversaries of God and betrayers of our suffering people. This criminal Nazi enemy acts with impunity because of your betrayal and silence.
  
• The enemy's war crimes, collective punishment, and genocidal plans, supported openly by the US, recall the horrors of Nazi concentration camps, which the world must reject.
  
• The false accusation of antisemitism is a scandal. The hatred toward Zionism stems from its crimes against humanity.
  
• The enemy's use of Arab agents is a sign of failure, destined to end in regret and loss. We call on these agents to repent and rejoin their people before it is too late.
  
• We salute the steadfastness of the Yemeni people and Ansarallah, who stood firm in support of Palestine, exposing the betrayal of many Arab and Islamic regimes.
  
• We thank all free peoples worldwide who show solidarity, break the siege, and resist oppression despite risks and defamation.
  
• We support the Palestinian resistance delegation in negotiations, having offered to release all enemy prisoners at once, a proposal rejected by the war criminal Netanyahu.
  
• Netanyahu's regime prioritizes propaganda over prisoners' lives, preparing public opinion to accept their deaths. We monitor talks with hope for peace, but will not settle for partial deals.
  
• Zionist failure is evident in its resort to war crimes and genocide. The resistance will reject these crimes and continue fighting.
  
• Our people's patience, steadfastness, and defiance despite abandonment are a source of our enemies' rage. Victory will come with patience and ease after hardship.
  
• We honor the elders of our nation and pledge continued struggle, trusting God's promise of ultimate victory.