Palestinians will not surrender to Israel and US: Islamic Jihad leader
The Secretary General of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad resistance movement has warned that US President Donald Trump’s Gaza plan aims to deliver for Israel what it failed to achieve on the battlefield, stressing that the Palestinian people will never surrender.
In a statement marking the second anniversary of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, Ziad al-Nakhala said, “Two years have passed since the eternal al-Aqsa Storm battle, and our people are still steadfast, and their resistance is still active on the ground.”
He stated that Trump's plan “carries within it the Palestinian people's declaration of their complete surrender to the enemy”, warning that the enemy is trying to “achieve through negotiations what they couldn’t accomplish through the war.”
“The enemy and their allies must know that we can’t surrender to their conditions and dictates after all this price”, Nakhala stated, in an apparent reference to tens of thousands of martyrs who lost their lives in the war. He added that the resistance fighters continue to inflict heavy casualties on the Israeli forces.
Nakhala said the resistance movement expressed its willingness to engage in negotiations on Trump’s plan for Gaza, as there are points that can be “positively dealt with”, especially the exchange of captives.
The prisoner exchange “can be achieved in the coming days, thus defusing the situation and the enemy's justifications for aggression," the Islamic Jihad chief said.
Referring to Israeli and US threats of death and destruction should the Palestinians refuse to surrender, Nakhala said, “Haven’t they already done that? They have done that and more.”
He described the negotiations, under Trump’s plan, as “a fierce battle”, vowing that “we will not surrender. We have rights and must fight to reclaim them,” Nakahla stressed.
His remarks came as delegations from Israel and the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas began indirect negotiations in Egypt on Monday.
The discussions will focus on Trump’s 20-point Gaza plan, which the Tel Aviv regime has agreed to and Hamas has partly accepted.
Israel's genocidal war on Gaza that started on October 7, 2023, has claimed nearly 67,200 lives, mostly women and children.
The Tel Aviv regime has so far failed to achieve its declared objectives of eliminating Hamas and freeing all Israeli captives.
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