Secretary General Of Islamic Jihad Declares The End Of Fighting In Gaza

Ziyad Al-Nakhalah, the Secretary General of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement, gave a speech on the morning of May 14 on the occasion of the end of five days of fighting between the Israeli regime and the Palestinian resistance groups.

While pointing to the end of another round of confrontation with the Zionist regime under the name of “Thar al-Ahrar”, Al-Nakhalah said: “In this round, we lost our dearest children and martyred leaders, whose presence was of great value to the Jihad movement and its brave battalions, and their martyrdom will be the light of our struggle. We lost many of our loved ones who were martyred by the Zionist regime. We said goodbye to all of them with pride.”

He added: “The Palestinian people, including the great leaders and commanders of al-Quds Brigades, who were martyred or sacrificed their dearest possessions, including their lives and children, will never fail and will continue to raise the flag of Quds and strive for its liberation. The Zionists wanted us to tread on the blood of our brothers and our families and keep silent and buy our lives with humiliation and cruelty. They wanted us to continue our lives in their way and under the boots of their soldiers. But the brave and courageous mujahids of Palestine rose up from the victorious Quds battalions and refused our blood to be trampled.”

Al-Nakhalah pointed out that the Palestinian people offered many martyrs and material losses and emphasized: “The message of our people should be like the past five days, when all their cities were under the range of Saraya al-Quds rockets and the Palestinian resistance, and all of you were watching them (Israelis) who were hiding in shelters or hiding under bus stops in terror.”

The Secretary General of the Islamic Jihad stated that these days are days of honor and honor for the Palestinian people and clarified: “Yes, Saraya al-Quds and its brave warriors were the vanguard of the resistance and its arrowhead in this battle, but the resistance was strong with all its factions. The wall on which the resistance of our brave warriors in Saraya al-Quds was based. We took this opportunity from the enemy to separate us and we endured what happened so that the position of resistance remained united and firm. Here we come out of this battle with our weapons and our fighters are still in the field and always ready to fight any aggression.”

In the end, he added: “I thank all those who were with the resistance and Saraya al-Quds, especially the Islamic Republic of Iran, Hezbollah, and our brothers in Egypt and Qatar, who made a lot of efforts so that we could curb the aggression.”

The Israeli regime attacks on the Gaza Strip began in the morning of May 9 with the assassination of three senior commanders of Al-Quds Brigades under an operation codenamed “Shield and Arrow” and continued until the evening of May 13. During the five days of fighting, 33 Palestinians were killed and 190 others were wounded as a result of the Israeli regime aggression on the Gaza Strip. On the other side, an Israeli was killed and 77 others were wounded.

Finally, on May 13, after the pressure of various parties and reaching a truce agreement between the Palestinian and the Israeli regime, the fighting was stopped at around 23:00 (Palestinian time), and the ceasefire agreement was implemented.