Hamas urges Palestinians in Syria, Lebanon to attack Israel
A senior leader of the Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, has called on Palestinians living in refugee camps in Lebanon and Syria to launch attacks on Israel.
Mahmoud Zahar said in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday that branches of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas' armed wing, in both countries should strike the occupying regime of Israel "to help us liberate Palestine", AFP reported on Thursday.
He also denied reports of the resistance group's involvement in a recent attack by in Egypt’s restive Sinai Peninsula, adding, "our guns are always trained on the [Israeli] enemy."
Israel launched a 50-day war on Gaza last summer that killed more than 2,200 Palestinians, including 577 children, and 73 people on the Israeli side, most of them soldiers.
Israel unleashed aerial attacks on Gaza in early July 2014 and later expanded its military campaign with a ground invasion of the Palestinian coastal enclave. The war ended in late August 2014 with an Egyptian-brokered truce.
Tel Aviv imposed a blockade on Gaza in 2007. The blockade has caused a decline in the standard of living as well as unprecedented levels of unemployment and unrelenting poverty.
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