Resistance official to Press TV: US, Israel pursue identical goals in Gaza

A senior resistance official says, despite the United States' pretenses, the country and the Israeli regime pursue identical goals in the Gaza Strip, which is enduring a Washington-backed genocidal war by the regime.

Mohammad al-Hindi, deputy secretary-general of the Gaza-based resistance movement of the Islamic Jihad, made the remarks in an exclusive interview with Press TV on Friday.

"In this aggression, there is American agreement with Israel. And the American administration is a complete accomplice with Israel, despite the crocodile tears, which they (the Americans) are shedding," he said.

The Israeli regime began the war on October 7 in response to a retaliatory operation staged by Gaza’s resistance movements. The military onslaught has so far killed more than 31,500 people, mostly women, children, and adolescents.

The US has been alleging concerns about the extent of the fatalities. Some US officials have also claimed that the Israeli regime would not be able to realize its war goal of eliminating Hamas, the Islamic Jihad's fellow Gaza-based resistance group. In action, however, Washington has been lending all-out political, military, and intelligence support to the war.

As part of its consistent political patronage for the regime, the US has so far vetoed three United Nations Security Council resolutions that have called for implementation of an immediate ceasefire in the Israeli aggression.

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Throughout the onslaught, the US has also supplied the Tel Aviv regime with more than 10,000 tons of military equipment. Earlier this month, The Washington Post reported that the United States had quietly authorized over 100 separate weapons sales to Israel since the start of the Gaza war.

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"So, the goals are to eliminate the resistance, and these are the American-Israeli joint strategic goals. So, the goals are the same, but there is disagreement regarding the priorities," Hindi said.

"The Americans talk, for example, about sparing civilians, but the civilians are being killed with American weapons and bombs. And some of these weapons reach Israel even behind the back of Congress." he added.

The resistance official, meanwhile, dismissed as gravely ineffective and even hypocritical, the United States' meager airdrops of aid onto Gaza and an American plan for construction of a "floating pier" that would supposedly get humanitarian supplies into the war-hit territory.

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"At the time, when the American administration talks about sparing civilians, and talks about a temporary pier, and drops small amounts of aid by airplanes, and it realizes that this will not achieve anything notable, so there is only an attempt to mislead the international conscience...and it is a kind of hypocrisy. Because it is buying time for the government of [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu," Hindi said.

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