Hamas leader Osama Hamdan confirmed that more than 800,000 residents of the Gaza Strip are experiencing a real famine, with the lack of shelter leading to diseases affecting 400,000 individuals, and around 60,000 injured. Hamdan expressed his sorrow that the injured are unable to receive treatment abroad after hospitals have gone out of service. He added, "More than 2,000 massacres executed by the occupation have resulted in over 31,000 martyrs and missing persons." He asked, "What are our Arab countries waiting for to act urgently?" He called for the escalation of operations in the West Bank, urging the Palestinian Authority's security apparatus to join the resistance.
Hamdan stated, "There are over 7,000 missing persons in Gaza, 70% of whom are women and children, trapped under the rubble that medical teams and civil defense have been unable to recover due to the ongoing relentless bombing and the lack of fuel and necessary equipment. This Nazi occupation has committed every horrific crime against the Gaza Strip over more than a hundred continuous days of bombing, destruction, genocide, and ethnic cleansing. The fascist occupation army executed over two thousand massacres against unarmed Palestinian civilians, resulting in more than 31,000 martyrs and missing persons."
He continued, "In the occupied West Bank, the occupation continues its barbaric crimes through daily incursions into cities, villages, and towns, along with arrests and assassinations, as well as through its settlement and Judaization policies, arming settlers, and unleashing them to violate lands, lives, and sanctities." He noted, "The number of martyrs in the West Bank since October 7 has reached 350, in addition to around 4,000 injured, and the number of detainees has exceeded 5,000."
Hamdan held the U.S. administration and President Biden responsible for these crimes and the war of genocide, claiming they support "this occupation politically, diplomatically, and militarily." He stated, "This administration is complicit in the killing, displacement, and extermination of our people and will not be exempt from legal, moral, and humanitarian accountability. In light of the ongoing and escalating humanitarian catastrophe that our people in Gaza are living through, we question, as the peoples of our nation and the free in the world question: how long will our Arab and Islamic brotherly countries wait to take serious and urgent action to overcome all the pressures exerted by the occupation and the U.S. administration to impose their will in aiding the afflicted people of Gaza, healing their wounds, and standing in solidarity with them by all means against this Nazi aggression?"
He called on the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the Arab League to urgently and immediately lift the siege on Gaza and to force the occupation to allow all official and popular delegations, along with medical and relief supplies and civil defense equipment, into all areas of the Gaza Strip. He indicated that the promotion of what is called "stage three," as if massacres and the targeting of civilians will cease, is merely an attempt to deceive and mislead public opinion. He asserted that stage three means continuing the killing and destruction under a new title, with genocide crimes ongoing, destruction escalating in buildings and residential neighborhoods, and humanitarian assistance being obstructed or trickled in as a form of slow death, creating an unlivable reality to facilitate the occupation's plan for forced displacement, which our people have thwarted through their steadfastness on their land.
He stated, "The Nazi occupation government and its defeated army have arrived at a dead end with no end or horizon in sight, and internal conflicts are escalating among the rulers of the Nazi enemy government and within their society. There is growing confusion, interference, and lack of trust in their government and army, as well as a rising sense of frustration and despair in achieving any of their declared objectives, with the certainty that their goal of defeating Hamas, or breaking our people’s resilience, is merely a figment of their imagination. It has become clearer than ever that Netanyahu insists on continuing the war for his personal interests and political future only, and he and his defeated army do not value the issue of prisoners or care about their return."
Hamdan asserted that any new day of continuous aggression and brutal bombing against our people poses a real threat to the lives of their captives held by the resistance. He added, "The formation of any Palestinian government is a national concern that America has no business in. Any process for the release of prisoners must first be based on a complete halt to the aggression against Gaza. We have provided Qatar and Egypt with a vision that achieves our demands, but there is procrastination from the Zionist entity." He lamented that "the German federal government is reviving its Nazi past by supporting the occupation."
Regarding discussions about America and Western countries trying to form a Palestinian government, he reaffirmed, "The formation of a Palestinian government and the management of the Palestinian situation is a purely Palestinian affair that we manage with our brothers and sisters from the Palestinian factions, and has nothing to do with America or others." He concluded, "We hope that Netanyahu does not obstruct the agreement we reached through mediation from Qatar to bring in medicines."
