The Palestinian Hamas resistance movement says anti-occupation protests in the Gaza Strip will continue despite the Israeli regime's aggression against the besieged enclave.
Head of Hamas Political Bureau Ismail Haniyeh said on Sunday that demonstrations would go on until the fulfillment of the Palestinian people's demands, including their right to return to their homeland.
He added that Israel’s settlement constructions and forced evacuations would fail to make Palestinians back down.
The senior Hamas leader said the Palestinian people would never change their stance on Jerusalem al-Quds, reiterating that the city and all other occupied territories belong to Palestinians.
Haniyeh's remarks came a day after a United Nations aid agency official said Palestinians in the Gaza Strip "have nothing to lose” as a ceasefire reached between Israel and the Palestinian resistance groups seemed to be holding on Sunday, following Israel's heavy bombardment of the territory and Hamas's retaliatory rocket fire a day earlier.
In early July 2014, Israel waged a war on the Gaza Strip. The 50-day military aggression, which ended on August 26, 2014, martyred nearly 2,200 Palestinians, including 577 children. Over 11,100 others – including 3,374 children, 2,088 women and 410 elderly people – were also wounded in the war.
