Hamas: US strikes in Syria, Iraq pouring oil on fire’ in region

Hamas made the remarks in a statement on Saturday, after the US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced that its forces haی struck more than 85 targets “with numerous aircraft” during overnight raids on localities in Iraq and Syria.

The resistance group went on to say that the US “bears full responsibility for the repercussions of this aggressive attack on Iraq and Syria.”

“Those who pour oil on the fire, we assure you that the region will not find stability, nor peace until the Zionist (Israeli) aggression, genocidal crimes and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip ceases,” it added.

Hamas further emphasized that the region will not witness stability and peace unless the Israeli regime’s attacks, genocide and ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip is stopped.

Earlier in the day, US occupation forces targeted positions in Syria’s eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr and the city of al-Bukamal near the Iraqi border. They also targeted the cities of al-Qa’im and Akashat near the Syrian border in Iraq’s western province of al-Anbar.

In a statement on Friday, US President Joe Biden said the strikes were the first in a series of actions by Washington in response to a drone attack that killed three American soldiers and left about 40 others injured in an occupation base near the Jordan-Syria border earlier in the week.

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, a coalition of anti-terror fighters, claimed responsibility for the drone strike in a statement published on its Telegram channel.

Iraqi resistance forces have conducted dozens of strikes on the US-run military installations in both Iraq and Syria amid growing anti-US sentiments in the region over Washington’s support for the Israeli genocidal campaign in Gaza.

Israel launched the war on Gaza on October 7 after the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas carried out the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Storm in response to Tel Aviv’s decades-long campaign of bloodletting and devastation against Palestinians.

Since the start of the aggression, Israel has killed more than 27,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, according to the latest count by the Gaza Health Ministry.