Islamic Jihad vows ‘no retreat until Israel’s demise’

“We have prepared ourselves for a long war of attrition that will not stop and will not retreat except with its (the Israeli regime’s) demise,” al-Quds Brigades said in a statement on Tuesday.

It pledged unfaltering resistance until the liberation of the entirety of Palestinian territories, including the holy city of al-Quds, from Israeli occupation.

The armed wing described the October 7, 2023 operation that saw the Gaza Strip’s resistance fighters storm the occupied Palestinian territories, encircle Israeli bases, and ensnare hundreds of Zionists, as a turning point in the history of Palestinian struggle.

It paid tribute to the many fighters, who had sacrificed their lives, towards realization of the operation’s victory.

The brigades went on to denounce the subsequent war of genocide that the regime waged and continues to stage against Gaza as a “mad and deadly war of mass killing” targeting civilians, mostly “children, women, and the elderly.”

The brutal assault, they added, has exposed “Zionist Nazism and injustice” and unleashed “the worst holocaust and tragedy of all time” against Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

Nevertheless, the warfare has failed to break the “will of our steadfast people”.

The statement predicted that the failure streak would continue, including with the defeat of the regime’s so-called “Gideon’s Chariots 2” assault on Gaza City, the Gaza Strip’s largest urban area, which seeks to occupy the city.

Elsewhere in the statement, they vowed not to release the remaining Israeli captives in Gaza except through an honorable exchange deal tied to ending the war.