Palestinian Islamic Jihad officials vow to continue to fight Israel and say they have additional attack tunnels, after the IDF reveals it is holding the bodies of five of the Islamic Jihad fighters.
“Our battle is open and shall not end. The freedom tunnel is not the only tunnel owned by the Islamic Jihad. It has many tunnels and many options,” Palestinian Islamic Jihad senior official Ahmad al-Mudalal tells the Hamas-linked website al-Shehab.
Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum tells al-Shehab that the Israeli decision would not stop “the resistance from developing its capabilities.”
An unnamed member of the Sayara Al Quds, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s military wing, says the terror organization will “recover the bodies of the martyrs of the freedom tunnel, and will trample with its feet on the necks of the enemies.”
The terror group member tells the Palestine Today news agency, affiliated with PIJ, that “the occupation will not be able to bargain over our fighters.”
— Dov Lieber
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