Hamas: Gaza invasion would be another failed escapade for Israel

The Hamas Movement said that any invasion of the Gaza Strip would be a very risky and failed adventure for the Israeli occupation state, which always pays dearly for its reckless acts and do not learn the lesson.

This came in response to recent Israeli threats to reinvade Gaza and enable the Palestinian Authority to rule it again.

Yuval Steinitz, Israel’s minister of intelligence, international relations and strategic affairs, said on Saturday that Israel would have no choice but to go inside the Gaza Strip in order to eliminate Hamas and allow the Palestinian Authority to regain control of its affairs if the Palestinian rockets kept landing in Israeli areas.

Senior Hamas official and lawmaker Mushir Al-Masri stated in press remarks to Quds Press that the Israeli leaders who had preceded Steinitz to such remarks had already tried their luck in Gaza and failed to achieve their goals.

“The invasion of the Gaza Strip by land is what the resistance wishes for because Gaza would be a graveyard for the Zionists,” Masri said, adding that “the occupation would commit a folly and its leaders would bite their fingers in regret if they thought to do so.”

The Hamas official said further that Israel would pay a huge price for any coming folly in Gaza and its army would drag tails of defeat and ignominy behind it.

“The resistance today is much stronger than ever before and our people strongly rally around it all the time,” he added.

For its part, the resistance committees in Palestine condemned Steinitz’s war threats and described him as “terrorist.”

The resistance committees said in a press release on Sunday that Steinitz’s threats were no more than another Israeli media stunt and muscle display, and could not frighten the Palestinian people and their resistance.

It stressed that the Palestinian resistance in Gaza is way stronger than before and ready to retaliate to any Israeli aggression.