News - Middle East: A senior Hamas official says the Israeli regime would not have been capable of pressing ahead with its brutal war of genocide against the Gaza Strip without US and Western support.

Speaking to reporters on Sunday, Sami Abu Zurhi, a high-ranking spokesman for the Palestinian resistance movement, said that the support had taken “the form of financial and military aid, as well as political and media backing.”

“We hold the US administration fully responsible for the massacres and crimes committed by the Zionist occupation against our people,” he said.

The official strongly condemned imposition of sanctions by the US Treasury Department against several Hamas leaders and its labeling the movement’s legitimate resistance operations as "terrorism."

Zuhri noted that the bans had come after the US used its veto power at the United Nations Security Council against a draft resolution calling for an end to the war and delivery of aid to Gaza.

“These actions further prove that the US administration is complicit in the genocide against our people, bearing legal, political, and moral responsibility for these crimes.”

Hamas to Biden: Atone!

The official called on the administration of US President Joe Biden to “atone for its misdeeds and pressure the occupation into immediately halting its aggression against our people” before the imminent end of its term.

“Likewise, we call on the incoming administration to review the hostile policies of the Biden administration and rectify its catastrophic errors.”

‘Israel fooling itself if it thinks it can change history’

Separately, Zuhri said the Israeli regime “deludes itself if it thinks that by committing more massacres, genocides, ethnic cleansing, and forced displacement, it can achieve its aggressive goals in Gaza. This land has always been and will remain Palestinian.”

He, meanwhile, called on the international community “to activate all forms of support, relief, and backing for our people in Gaza, strengthen their resilience and steadfastness on their land, and enable them to defend their land and legitimate rights.”

‘Resistance scripting greatest epic of heroism in history’

The spokesman hailed Palestinian resistance fighters for being engaged in “scripting the greatest epics of heroism in the history of our nation” through their “valiant” retaliatory operations.  

Elsewhere in his remarks, Zuhri pointed to the regime’s escalation and tightened siege, most notably against healthcare facilities and staff, in northern Gaza for nearly 50 days that has resulted in the deaths of more than 2,300 people.  

“The occupation's crimes against the healthcare system in Gaza are systematic war crimes aimed at destroying all aspects of human life and displacing our people,” he said.

The official noted the regime’s recent back-to-back attacks against the Kamal Adwan Hospital in the city of Beit Lahia, which featured direct shelling of the facility and shooting of its medical teams, patients, and the wounded.

“This includes the deliberate shooting and injuring of the hospital’s Director, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, in a criminal attempt to assassinate him and terrorize all hospital staff to prevent them from fulfilling their humanitarian duties.”

The remarks came on the 415th day of the war that has so far claimed the lives of at least 44,211 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and wounded 104,567 others.

 Source: Press TV