Hamas blasts US congressman’s call for nuking Gaza as ‘genocide incitement’
The Palestinian Hamas resistance movement has vehemently denounced the latest statements made by US Republican Congressman Randy Fine, who advocated for a nuclear attack on the Gaza Strip as an appeal deeply infused with animosity and a blatant incitement to genocide.
Hamas, in a statement issued on Friday evening, characterized the congressman’s extremist rhetoric as a “fully-fledged crime” and a flagrant manifestation of the fascist racism that permeates certain political circles in the United States.
The movement urged both the US administration and Congress to openly condemn such statements, emphasizing that Congress has progressively turned into a venue for rationalizing and promoting Israeli offenses, particularly through its cordial reception of war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu.
Hamas emphasized that the Republican congressman’s remarks represent a clear infringement of international humanitarian law and the Geneva Conventions, and signify a direct incitement to employ weapons of mass destruction against more than two million civilians in Gaza.
The resistance movement concluded that such barbaric demands would neither diminish the resolve of the Palestinian people nor undermine their belief in the righteousness of their cause. Instead, they reveal the genuine nature of the occupying Israeli regime and those who support it.
The Israeli military resumed bombardment of Gaza on March 18, killing thousands of Palestinians, and injuring many others, after it shattered the 2-month ceasefire agreement with the Palestinian group Hamas and the deal on the exchange of Israeli captives with Palestinian abductees.
At least 53,822 Palestinians have been killed, mostly women and children, and another 122,382 individuals injured in the brutal Israeli military onslaught on Gaza since October 7, 2023.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants last November for Israeli prime minister Netanyahu and former minister of military affairs Yoav Gallant, citing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war on the besieged coastal territory.
