Hamas calls for a Friday of Rage to denounce Israeli massacres and calls on Arabs to wave the "oil" card to pressure the occupation

The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) called on Thursday evening the peoples of the world to participate tomorrow in the "Friday of Rage" in condemnation of the Israeli massacres in the northern Gaza Strip. A leader in the movement called on the Arab countries to brandish the oil card to pressure the occupation, which has been practicing genocide and ethnic cleansing for 20 days.

"We call on the Arab and Islamic masses and the free people of the world to participate widely tomorrow in the Friday of Rage for Gaza, and to take to the streets in angry and massive marches, rejecting the ongoing massacre in the northern Gaza Strip," she said in a statement.

She added that the Israeli massacres led to the martyrdom of hundreds, the displacement of thousands, and the burning of homes, hospitals, and shelters, in an attempt by the occupation to pass displacement plans that our people in the northern Gaza Strip have thwarted many times.

A few days ago, mass calls were launched for mobilization, mobilization, and sit-ins tomorrow, Friday, all over the world, in support of Gaza, in support of the resistance, and in confrontation with the escalating crimes of the Israeli occupation.

The Israeli incursion and bombardment of various areas in the North Gaza Governorate continues, while the army continues its efforts to empty the area of its residents through forced evacuation and displacement.

On October 5, the Israeli army began unprecedented bombing operations on the Jabalia camp and town and large areas in the northern Gaza Strip, before invading them the next day under the pretext of “preventing Hamas from regaining its strength in the region.”

With American support, Israel has been waging a genocidal war on Gaza since October 7, 2023, which has left more than 143,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing, amid massive destruction and famine that has killed dozens of children and the elderly, in one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world.

Tel Aviv continues this war, ignoring the UN Security Council resolution to end it immediately, and the International Court of Justice’s orders to take measures to prevent acts of genocide and improve the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza.

Hamas calls on Arabs to wave the oil card

Taher Al-Nunu, media advisor to the head of the political bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), called on the Arabs today, Thursday, to brandish the oil card and invest their relations with Washington to pressure the Israeli occupation.

Al-Nunu told Al Jazeera, "It is time to take a clear Arab position and activate the committees that have been formed in this regard."

Al-Nunu's statement came on the sidelines of the escalating displacement of residents of the northern Gaza Strip, in light of the ongoing Israeli military operation, the most violent since the beginning of the current war.

The Arab countries had taken a decision to embargo Arab oil to confront the Israeli advance towards Arab lands, and targeted the United States and the countries supporting the Israeli occupation in the October 1973 war.

Because of this decision, the American economy suffered huge losses, and its period extended from October 17, 1973 to March 18, 1974.

An unimaginable disaster

The Hamas leader described what is happening in the northern Gaza Strip as a "catastrophe whose title is complete international and Arab silence," and considered silence regarding the occupation's crimes "participation in them."

He said that what is happening in the northern Gaza Strip is beyond imagination of human tragedies, calling on the peoples and the nation to protest tomorrow, Friday, in support of the steadfastness of the people of Gaza.

The Hamas leader stressed the need for people to express their rejection of what is happening, calling on them to "prove to the occupation that our nation is still alive."

On October 6, the occupation army announced the start of a new military operation in Jabalia under the pretext of "preventing Hamas from regaining its strength in the area."

Military experts say that Israel is moving forward with implementing the "generals' plan" that calls for besieging the population in the northern Gaza Strip and displacing them in order to impose a "closed military zone."

Al-Nunu stressed that bombing hospitals anywhere in the world is "an act of terrorism par excellence, but bombing them in Gaza does not move anyone."

In this context, sources told Al Jazeera that the occupation forces are besieging Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, in addition to besieging tens of thousands of residents in the Beit Lahia project, the town of Beit Lahia, and the Jabalia camp in the north.

The occupation forces also burned dozens of homes in the Beit Lahia project area, while a medical source told Al Jazeera that 820 martyrs had fallen in the ongoing Israeli military operation in Jabalia camp and the northern Gaza Strip.

The Civil Defense Authority in the Gaza Strip announced, at dawn on Thursday, that it had completely stopped its work in the northern governorate, after the occupation army arrested 5 of its members and directly targeted 3 others, and bombed the only fire truck in the northern Gaza Strip.

Al-Nunu held Israel responsible for the failure to reach any agreement that would end the war and lead to a prisoner exchange deal, and said, "At every negotiation station, the occupation commits major crimes to obstruct any path to a solution."

On Wednesday, Hamas leader Sami Abu Zuhri said that the occupation government and the United States do not want to reach any agreement to stop the war, and that they only want to recover the prisoners and continue the aggression.

He confirmed in an interview with Al Jazeera that the movement had not received any new proposal from the United States to stop the war, and that Hamas was ready for any agreement that would lead to stopping the war and withdrawing the occupation forces from the Strip.

(Al Jazeera + Agencies)