Hamas leader Khaled Mashal says Israel is digging its own grave in Gaza war

Senior Hamas official Khaled Mashal warned that Israel is digging its own grave with the war against the Gaza terror group, Arabic media reports him as saying.

Speaking days after the alleged Israeli assassination of Hamas terror chief Saleh al-Arouri in Beirut, Lebanon, Mashal accused Israel of being delusional and said that Palestinian “resistance” groups will only grow stronger in the face of the war against Hamas.

“This arrogant, criminal Zionist enemy, despite its failure and disappointment after three months of its barbaric aggression against Gaza… wants to export their crisis abroad,” Arabic media outlets quote Mashal as saying of the assassination. “They want to expand the circle of aggression, thinking that this will confuse the calculations of the resistance and the calculations of the region.”

“The enemy also thinks that the assassination of our leaders will break the will of the resistance and weaken the leadership. It does not know that this is a big illusion,” he said, and added that in the past, “every time a leader fell, a leader rose, and the martyrdom of a leader sets others on the same path, with the same will, with the same determination.”