GAZA — There is renewed talk in Gaza about returning to resistance operations against Israel. Of particular note, within the span of two weeks, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ military wing, conducted two parades in which other resistance factions participated. In addition, Moussa Abu Marzouk, deputy chairman of the movement’s political bureau, wrote on Sept. 7 on his Facebook page, “Those who claim that Hamas has abandoned the resistance are deluded.”
Abu Marzouk asserted that Hamas has not supplanted the resistance project in favor of a negotiated settlement with Israel and claimed that Hamas’ forces, which numbered in the hundreds in the past, are now in the thousands. According to him, clashing with Israel is the norm for Hamas, truces are the exception, and Hamas has been training, developing and preparing its people for resistance until liberation and the return of the refugees.
