Israel cannot cover up its October 7 defeat with lies: Hamas

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says the Israeli regime suffered a heavy defeat by the Gaza Strip-based resistance groups on October 7, stressing that the occupying entity cannot cover up its failure with lies.

Osama Hamdan, a Hamas leader, made the remarks in a press conference in the Lebanese capital of Beirut on Monday, the 31st day of Operation al-Aqsa Strom, the largest military operation by Hamas-led resistance groups against the Israeli regime in decades.

“The failure that the enemy suffered on October 7 and is still suffering from in the battlefield cannot be covered up with lies,” Hamdan said. "The occupation's losses are much greater than what it announces, and this is the reason for its unprecedented criminal bombing."

The Hamas official stressed that the resistance groups in the Gaza Strip inflicted heavy losses on Israelis and the besieged area will be a graveyard for the occupation forces if they press ahead with their onslaught.

“Gaza will always remain a graveyard for tyrants, and we gained victory on October 7," Hamdan said, adding that al-Qassam Brigades, the military arm of Hamas, is "fighting on all fronts and inflicting heavy losses among the enemy's ranks."

During the press conference in Beirut, Hamdan touched on “the lies that the occupation is spreading to justify its direct targeting of medical facilities,” and said the Israeli regime was broadcasting pictures of the Indonesian hospital in the Gaza Strip that were taken a decade ago.

Hamdan reaffirmed the Indonesian hospital’s denial of the occupation army's claims that the medical center has been used by Hamas to launch an attack.

"The entrance to the alleged tunnel near the Indonesian hospital is a fuel supply hole, and the alleged audio recordings of our members are fake calls fabricated by the occupation, and the allegations of hospitals being used as launching pads for missiles cannot be believed by any rational person," the Hamas leader underlined.

Hamdan called on the United Nations to visit the hospitals in Gaza to verify what he called "the lies of the occupation."

More killings as Israeli targets children’s hospital in Gaza

Israel targets a children’s hospital in Gaza on Monday as the regime’s aggression on the besieged strip has entered its 31st day.

The Israeli regime has over the past weeks embarked on shelling several hospitals in Gaza, claiming that Hamas and other resistance groups are using the tunnels under the medical facilities to launch sneak attacks on the occupied territories.

Earlier, the NGO that funds the Indonesian hospital’s infrastructure rejected the accusation by the Israeli military that the medical center has been used by Hamas to launch an attack, noting the regime has been “crafting a public lie” to attack the Indonesian hospital in northern Gaza.

The death toll from Israel’s brutal aggression on the Gaza Strip surpassed 10,000 on Monday; one month after the occupying regime launched a devastating war on Palestinians in the besieged area.

The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza announced that the death toll from the incessant Israeli bombardment of the coastal sliver stood at 10,022 people, including 4,104 children and 2,641 women. The Ministry also said the number of those wounded since October 7 had risen to 25,408.

Israel launched the war on Gaza on October 7 after Hamas-led resistance groups waged the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the occupying entity in response to the Israeli regime’s decades-long campaign of bloodletting and devastation against Palestinians.

The regime has also cut off one of the most densely-populated places in the world from basic supplies, such as water, electricity, and fuel. Shortage of medical supplies and food has left 2.3 million Palestinians at risk of starvation.

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