In a statement published on Telegram, the Palestinian Islamist movement recognizes the “exhaustion” of the population but reiterates its desire to continue the war.
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For the first time in six months, Hamas presented “his excuses” to the residents of the Gaza Strip for the suffering caused by the war. In a statement published on Telegram on the evening of Sunday March 31, the Palestinian Islamist movement recognizes “exhaustion” of the population and the difficulties caused by the war against the Israeli army.
While addressing “a message of thanks to the people”, Hamas also reiterates its desire to continue this war which, according to it, should make it possible to achieve “victory and freedom” Palestinians. Movement, considered terrorist by the European Union and the United States, in particular, insists on the measures that he says he tried to put in place to reduce the difficulties, in particular attempts to “price control” within the limits of its capabilities “given the ongoing attack.”
More than a million people crowded into Rafah
Hamas also claimed to exchange with “all the components” of Gazan society, mentioning other armed movements, “popular committees” And “families” in order to “resolve the problems caused by the occupation”.
Humanitarian needs are immense in this territory already undermined before the war by an Israeli blockade imposed since 2006, poverty and unemployment. Aid is trickling in, and most of the population has been displaced to the southernmost part, around Rafah, near the closed Egyptian border. This city, which had fewer than 300,000 inhabitants before the war, is now home to more than a million, according to UN estimates.
