Hamas is facing an “unprecedented battle” with Israel, the terror group’s leader in Gaza has said, in his first public message since the Oct 7 attacks.
The head of the Islamist Hamas movement in Gaza, Yehya al-Sinwar, says its fighters have inflicted heavy losses of life and equipment on Israeli forces in the conflict. In a letter to the chairman of the Hamas politburo, Ismail Haniya, and other members of the committee, al-Sinwar spoke of a bitter, brutal and unprecedented battle against Israeli forces being fought by the Qassam Brigades, the organization's armed wing. He asserted that the Qassam Brigades had attacked at least 5,000 Israeli sol