Hamas’ supreme leader makes his first public appearance in the Gaza Strip this afternoon since a new round of violence with Israel broke out this week.
Ismail Haniyeh visits the rubble of his Gaza City office, which was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike on Tuesday. Haniyeh had been in hiding during the two-day flare-up of violence, which ended with an unofficial Egyptian-brokered cease-fire.
At the site, Haniyeh says that the “Israeli occupation got the message.”
The wreckage of what was once a building housing the offices of Hamas chairmain Ismail Haniyeh in Gaza City on March 26, 2019, the morning after it was destroyed by Israeli strikes in response to a rocket from the Palestinian enclave that hit a house and wounded seven Israelis. (Israel Defense Forces)
“The resistance has had the last word, and Israel got the message,” he says. “I am grateful to all parties who helped stop the Zionist arrogance in the Gaza Strip.”
He urges Palestinians to take part in Saturday’s border protests, the one-year anniversary of the ongoing Hamas-led demonstrations against Israel.
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