Doha, Qatar:
Palestinian group Hamas on Sunday praised its October 7 assault on Israel in a video message forward of the primary anniversary of the lethal storming of southern Israel which sparked the warfare in Gaza.
“The crossing of the wonderful seventh of October shattered the illusions the enemy had created for itself, convincing the world and the area of its supposed superiority and capabilities,” Qatar-based Hamas member Khalil al-Hayya mentioned in a video assertion.
Final 12 months’s October 7 assault resulted within the deaths of 1,205 individuals, largely civilians, based on an AFP tally based mostly on Israeli official figures that embrace hostages killed in captivity.
At the very least 41,870 Palestinians, a majority of them civilians, have been killed in Israel’s army marketing campaign within the Gaza Strip for the reason that warfare started, based on information supplied by the well being ministry in Hamas-run Gaza. The UN has acknowledged these figures as dependable.
Al-Hayya, mentioned a 12 months after the October 7 assault, “all of Palestine, significantly Gaza, and our Palestinian persons are writing a brand new historical past with their resistance, blood, and steadfastness”.
The Hamas member, who has emerged because the Islamist group’s public face following the killing of its former chief Ismail Haniyeh in July, mentioned Gazans had remained “resilient to all makes an attempt at displacement… regardless of the sorts of torture and terrorism you will have endured, and the horrific genocide and each day bloodbath”.
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