Shallah: Entering Gaza City is suicide

 
Source: Press TV, 05-01-2009

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement warns "Israel" that its soldiers would be "committing suicide" if they enter Gazan residential areas.
"‘Israeli' soldiers would be committing suicide by crossing over into residential areas of the Gaza Strip and engaging in street warfare," a senior leader the movement, Ramadan Abdallah Shallah, said on Sunday.

"If the Zionists plan to destroy Hamas and overthrow its democratically elected government in Gaza, we must tell their leaders, US allies, and certain western governments that support them, that they delusional," said Shallah.
"You can not destroy the resistance even if you nuke Gaza, because Hamas and the resistance are the Palestinian nation itself," he added.

On Saturday, "Israel" launched a ground incursion into Gaza and sent its troops into the strip backed up by military vehicles and intense air and naval bombardment.
As the massive military onslaught enters its tenth day, "Israeli" tanks are perched on the outskirts of Gaza City, while on the other side Islamic Jihad and Hamas fighters stand ready to confront "Israeli" troops.

Islamic Jihad is a Palestinian resistance movement that, like the democratically elected government of Hamas, does not recognize "Israel". Both movements are labeled as 'terrorist organizations' by Tel Aviv and its Western allies.
The Islamic Jihad leader has vowed that the movement would "never change its position toward ‘Israel', as it knows that it is in the right" when fighting occupation.

Shallah added that Palestinian fighters will continue to fire their homemade rockets into "Israel".
"[‘Israel'] has failed to achieve its goal. Rocket fire continues, as this time around, the "Israeli" military encounters the strategy of resistance," he said.
While "Israel" says the operation is aimed at stopping rocket attacks on its communities, Hamas asserts that its attacks are carried out in retaliation for the "Israeli" pressure and blocked imposed on the strip -- home to 1.5 million Palestinians.

Hamas began launching rocket attacks against "Israel" after Tel Aviv violated a six-month ceasefire with the Palestinian movement.
So far "Israeli" aggression since December 27 has killed over 528 Palestinians, many of whom are women and children. More than 2,500 others have been wounded and many are feared to be under the rubble.