Hamas leader threatens Gantz: ‘You will curse the day..."
Nov 5, 2019 16:56:46 GMT -5
Post by shalom on Nov 5, 2019 16:56:46 GMT -5
Hamas leader threatens Gantz: ‘You will curse the day that you were born’
Yahya Sinwar warns Blue and White leader against taking military action if he becomes prime minister, says terror group can turn Israeli cities into ghost towns if Gaza invaded
By TOI STAFF
4 November 2019, 11:59 pm 4
Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar on Monday threatened Blue and White party leader MK Benny Gantz, warning that if Gantz tries to attack the Gaza Strip after forming a government, the terror group will see to it that he rues the day he was born.
Sinwar was referring to Gantz’s comments after weekend rocket attacks from Gaza on southern Israeli cities in which the Israeli lawmaker, a former commander of the Israel Defense Forces, said that if he becomes prime minister, he will use military force to deter such attacks and possibly assassinate leaders of the terror group.
“We say to him: We are waiting for you, if you succeed in forming a government,” Sinwar taunted during a speech in Gaza. “Let’s see what you can do. With the permission of God, his glory and exaltedness, we will make you curse the day your mother gave birth to you.”
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Sinwar also threatened relentless missile attacks on Tel Aviv in a future escalation of conflict. If violence flares up, “we are going to hit Tel Aviv and make the sirens go off in the morning, evening and night for six full months,” he threatened. “We can turn the enemy’s cities into ghost towns, if they continue to attack us.”
“If you have been thinking about coming in — we have thousands of mines that are waiting for you,” Sinwar added, and boasted that there are hundreds of miles of tunnels under Gaza that Hamas forces can use to defend the Palestinian enclave against an Israeli attack.
Sinwar also thanked Iran for its support of Hamas “with funds, weapons and expertise.”
Gantz and Sinwar, a former Hamas armed wing head, faced off on the battlefield in Gaza during 2014’s Operation Protective Edge, a 50-day conflict during which Israeli forces battled against Hamas-led Palestinian terror groups. At the time, Gantz was still IDF chief of staff. During the fighting Palestinians fired thousands of rockets and mortars at Israel, including some aimed toward Tel Aviv.
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