Hiding deposed Prime Minister of Hamas government in Gaza Ismail Haneya said on Tuesday that the Israeli ground operation carried out into the Gaza Strip earlier this week "has failed."
Haneya said in a written statement sent to reporters that "the ground aggression on the Gaza Strip is a proof that the occupation has failed to force Gaza Strip population to surrender."
He added that "this war against Gaza would be more than difficult if it was carried out against other peoples in the world, but the Palestinian people in Gaza are defeating their enemy by their strong steadfastness and faithfulness."
"It's a fact that our people don't have warplanes and tanks but our people have the strength of the will and steadfastness and are armed with patience and the ability to live in such severe conditions," said Haneya's statement.
The Israeli army has been carrying out unprecedented intensive air and ground large-scale offensive on the Gaza Strip for consecutive eleven days, killing at least 590 people and wounded more than 2,600.
Gaza doctors said that 200 children and 60 women were among the death toll, adding that 50 percent of those injured are civilians, most of them are women and children.
Witnesses, who spoke in condition of anonymity, said that Gaza militants carried out rockets attacks on Israel from nearby houses, inhabited by civilians and leave the area immediately.
They added that Israeli army tanks and warplanes fire back at the source where the rockets or the mortars came from, "where civilians' houses are hit and this leads to a high number of casualties."
"This doesn't mean that the Israeli occupation is innocent, it is also involved in carrying out dozens of massacres against innocent civilians," said one of the witnesses.
On Tuesday afternoon, Israeli warplanes hit with missiles a school run by the United Nations, which shelters dozens of families in Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza strip, killing at least 25 civilians, medics said.
Mo'aweya Hassanein, chief of emergency and ambulance services in the Palestinian Health Ministry said that so far, Gaza hospitals received at least 25 people killed and dozens injured from the school in Jabalia.
"Where are the Arabs and Moslems for what is going on in Gaza and how come the free Arabs and Moslems allow such awful massacres to be committed against our innocent people?" said Haneya.
Source:Xinhua
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