The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) denounced – in a statement – what it considered US President Joe Biden’s adoption of Zionist allegations that attempt to falsely accuse the resistance of committing sexual violence and rape, as it put it.
The movement said – in a statement – that Biden’s accusation of its fighters of committing sexual violence is an attempt to mislead public opinion, which witnessed the resistance’s good treatment of detainees.
Hamas considered that Biden’s repetition of “the blatant lie is Zionist behavior aimed at covering up the crime of genocide and ethnic cleansing with American weapons,” it said.
Biden accused Hamas fighters of causing what he described as “the greatest amount of pain and suffering to women and girls,” stressing that the sexual violence they commit must be condemned, as he put it.
The movement explained in its statement that it considers Biden’s adoption of these accusations “a new moral failure for a president who is supposed to enjoy a minimum level of objectivity, which does not make him repeat trivialities and empty, baseless accusations other than following cheap Zionist propaganda.”
The movement called on the international media to be careful to expose the falsity of the new Zionist allegations, as happened with the lies and allegations of beheading children or using Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza as a command and control center for the resistance, and other lies that have been proven false.
Scenes that embarrassed Israel
During the handover of detainees in Gaza to the Red Cross, members of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades appeared patting children and being kind to the elderly. Scenes also showed Hamas fighters and Israeli prisoners waving hands to each other in a farewell gesture, which angered some Israeli officials.
These scenes coincided with Israeli television stations quoting families saying that their detained relatives received good treatment during their captivity, and were not subjected to torture or ill-treatment.
Tel Aviv kept the detained Israelis who were released away from the media, and did not allow anyone except their relatives and friends to meet with them.
On December 1, a humanitarian truce ended between the Palestinian resistance factions and Israel, which lasted for 7 days and was concluded through Qatari mediation with Egyptian-American support, during which prisoners and detainees were exchanged and limited humanitarian aid was brought into the Gaza Strip, which is inhabited by about 2.3 million Palestinians.
For two months, the Israeli occupation army has been waging a devastating war on Gaza, leaving more than 16,000 martyrs and more than 43,000 injured, in addition to massive destruction in residential neighborhoods, vital facilities, and hospitals.
