Hamas: Israel uses baseless accusations to tighten Gaza siege

Israel’s ongoing siege on the Gaza Strip does not help maintain a state of calm in the area, Hamas stressed today.

The movement’s spokesperson Hazem Qasim said: “The Israeli accusations against the movement that it exploits traders and ordinary people to smuggle money, the specific needs of the military wing and aid for terrorism are baseless and false and are aimed at tightening the ten-year-old blockade on the Gaza Strip.”

“The occupation is undertaking a media and political campaign against Hamas in order to tighten the siege on the Strip and to justify it. The occupation is trying to gain legitimacy from the international community for the continuation of this unjust blockade and to break the will of the people and the resistance in Gaza.”

He called on the world to put pressure on the Israeli occupation to lift the siege on the Gaza Strip, stressing that the Palestinian people will not respond to Israeli pressures, stresses that they will rally around the resistance.