(Times of Israel) A senior Hamas official said that the terror group has built a so-called “real army” to fight Israel and that it has become the leading manufacturer of missiles in the Arab world.
Fathi Hammad, a member of the group’s political bureau and a former interior minister in Gaza, said Hamas “has made a resolute decision to remain steadfast and wage jihad, as the only means to liberate Palestine,” according to the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) which picked up a media interview he gave on Al-Aqsa TV on December 8.
Hammad called Israel’s 2005 Disengagement from the Gaza Strip a liberation “under the watch of Hamas,” thanks to its “Jihad [holy war].”
