News - Middle East: A senior Hamas’s official says the anti-Israeli struggle led by the Palestinian resistance movement’s former Political Bureau Chief Yahya Sinwar will eventually lead to the regime’s destruction.

Khaled Mashal, the group’s political leader abroad, made the remarks in Istanbul, Turkey during a mourning ceremony held in honor of Sinwar, who was recently assassinated by the regime in the Gaza Strip.

“Sinwar kicked up a storm against the Zionist regime and afflicted it with a great earthquake that will lead to its destruction,” he said.

The enemy sought to face Sinwar with an unfavorable fate, Mashal added, but God realized a respectable destiny for him and he led a brave existence and died honorably.

He also asserted that the Palestinian resistance would continue to confront Israeli atrocities and would welcome whatever approach that ensures realization of the Palestinian people’s rights and leads to cessation of the aggression.

Khalil al-Hayya, Hamas’s Political Bureau’s deputy chief, confirmed Sinwar’s martyrdom in a statement last Friday, noting that the group’s former political leader was assassinated during the Israeli regime’s war of genocide against the Gaza Strip, which has been going on for more than a year.

'Resistance remains resilient'

Osama Hamdan, Hamas’s representative in Lebanon, asserted that Sinwar’s martyrdom had failed to weaken the resistance as shown by a recent operation that was carried out by al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s military wing, against Israeli forces in the city of Jabalia in northern Gaza.

The operation saw resistance fighters conducting an ambush against the forces that resulted in the death of a colonel leading the Israeli military’s 401st Armored Brigade and seriously wounded the deputy commander and an officer of the 52nd Battalion, a subdivision of the brigade.

Hamdan hailed Sinwar for his efforts at stopping the aggression against Gaza without compromising the rights of the coastal sliver’s people.

“The heroic personality of leader Sinwar pushed him to resist the occupation from the frontlines,” he said.

Hamdan also asserted that “our resistant people in northern Gaza will [continue to] foil the plan of the new Nazi generals from the occupation leaders.”

 He was referring to a week-long campaign that has been led by the regime against the northern areas, which is aimed at tightening the regime’s siege against the areas, cutting off humanitarian aid to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians inside, and labeling those who remain there as combatants so it could target and kill them after declaring the areas a "closed military zone.”

Source: Press TV