In a long press release published Sunday, March 31 evening, on its Telegram channel, Hamas “apologizes” for the difficulties and suffering caused by the war against the Israeli army which has lasted for almost six months, provoked by the unprecedented attack of the Palestinian Islamist movement on Israeli soil, on October 7, 2023.
However, he also reiterates his desire to continue this war, which, according to him, must make it possible to achieve “victory and freedom” Palestinians. He addressed “a message of thanks to the people” of the Gaza Strip, of which he recognizes “exhaustion”.
The movement insisted on the measures it said it had tried to put in place to alleviate the difficulties, including attempts to “price control”within the limits of its capabilities “given the ongoing aggression”.
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”.
Help that comes in little by little
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 1 million, according to UN estimates.
In recent months, various Hamas personalities, such as Khaled Mechaal, former head of the movement’s political office, had estimated that “sacrifices” were necessary for ” the Liberation “ Palestinians.
According to the latest report from the Hamas health ministry, the offensive launched by the Israeli army left 32,782 dead in the Gaza Strip. Israel has vowed to annihilate the Palestinian movement – which it considers a terrorist organization, along with the United States and the European Union – whose sudden offensive on October 7, 2023, led to the death of at least 1,160 people on the soil of the Jewish state, mainly civilians, according to a count by Agence France-Presse. According to Israel, around 250 people were also kidnapped during the assault, and 130 of them remain hostages in Gaza, 34 of whom died.