Monday, January 19, 2009

Hamas: Our Arsenal of Rockets Has Not Been Affected


Al-Manar

"19/01/2009 Hamas vowed on Monday to rearm in defiance of any Israeli and international efforts to prevent the Islamic resistance group from replenishing its arsenal of rockets and other weapons after the Gaza war.

"Do whatever you want. Manufacturing the holy weapons is our mission and we know how to acquire weapons," Abu Obaida, a spokesman for Hamas' armed wing, Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades, told a news conference.

Addressing journalists with his face masked by a checkered Arab scarf, he said that only 48 Hamas resistance fighters were martyred in the Israeli offensive in Gaza. Abu Obaida also said that Israel lost "at least 80 soldiers" in the fighting; however the Zionist entity has adopted the media blackout policy concerning its losses there.

Palestinians report that at least 1,300 people were killed in the Strip in the past three weeks, including 420 children......"

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