Palestinian resistance: Israeli regime’s allowing of limited Gaza exports ‘insufficient’

Hamas and Islamic Jihad resistance movements have described Zionist regime’s decision to allow a limited resumption of commercial exports from the Gaza Strip and entry of Palestinian traders as “insufficient,” emphasizing that such measures will not alleviate the suffering of Palestinians living in the besieged enclave.

Hamas Spokesman Hazem Qassem stated on Saturday that his group is “conducting intensive contacts with the mediators of the ceasefire agreement with the Israeli Occupation to compel it to completely end the tight siege imposed on Gaza.”

“The measures that the Occupation is talking about are insufficient. Such steps do not respond to the demands to end the humanitarian crisis in the (Gaza) Strip,” Qassem added.

Separately, the spokesman for Islamic Jihad movement, Tariq Salmi, said Israel’s terrorism and aggression represented by the siege and prevention of construction materials into the Gaza Strip are part of the regime’s attempts to cover up its security and military failures, blackmail the Palestinian nation and put pressure on advocates of the Palestinian resistance movement.

Salmi also termed the tightening of the blockade on Gaza as “terrorism.”

“We will not surrender to them at all, but would rather confront them. The resistance will not allow the Occupation to employ the siege as a means to hide its failures,” he pointed out.

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