[JPost]"Please beat our asses back til the millennia, now"Senior leaders of Hamas and PIJ, meanwhile, have reportedly gone into hiding out of fear of being targeted by Israel.
Defiant Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad officials on Tuesday threatened to step up their attacks on Israel after some of their senior military commanders were killed in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip.In separate statements, the two terrorist groups said they would continue their rocket attacks until Israel "halts its aggression" on the Palestinians in Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip. They also accused Israel of targeting innocent civilians, including children.
By Tuesday evening, only two groups, PIJ and Humat al-Aqsa, had officially acknowledged the death of their members. Unconfirmed reports said at least four senior Hamas members were killed in Tuesday’s attacks by Israel.
Senior leaders of Hamas and PIJ, meanwhile, have gone into hiding out of fear of being targeted by Israel, according to sources in the Gaza Strip.
"Hamas has not abandoned the equation that says bombings will be met with bombings," Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said. "The brave Palestinian resistance, at the forefront of which is the Qassam Brigades, has taken upon itself the responsibility to protect our Palestinian people and to respond strongly and directly to the occupation’s violations and crimes against our people in Jerusalem and worshipers in the blessed al-Aqsa Mosque, as well as the targeting of civilians and children."
Israel decided to "transfer the battle to the Gaza Strip after it failed to break the will and determination of the resistance that defends the people and protects their interests," he said.
Hamas and other Gaza-based factions will "continue to repel the [Israeli] aggression with full force, notwithstanding the sacrifices," Barhoum said.