“No evidence of Hamas connection for over twenty years.”
>>Izz Al-Din Al-Qassam Brigades Spokesman Abu ‘Ubaida, who spoke at the close of the military parade, said: “The history of Hamas and its fighting brigades paint a glorious picture of manufacturing and preparing weapons and carving through rock in order to resist the occupation and hurt it. Now, after many years, this picture has yielded the Al-Qassam army that you and the world can see, with its fighting units that participated in today’s impressive parade: the artillery unit, the naval unit, the commando unit, the tunnel unit, the sniper unit, the armored unit, the infantry unit and the air defense unit. These are not [just] names and labels; these are fighting units that vanquished the enemy on the threshold of Gaza, shattered its baseless arrogance and humiliated their foes on the ground, in the sea and in the air, with the help of Allah the Almighty…
“Since Allah graced us with this development [of the Al-Qassam Brigades], and with this victory and this humiliation of the enemy, we have only to thank those whom Allah enlisted to take part in this development… first and foremost the Islamic Republic of Iran, which did not withhold from us funds, weapons and other [forms of aid] and helped us in our resistance by supplying us with missiles that pulverized the Zionist strongholds during the attacks and battles we waged against the occupier, and also supplied us with quality anti-tank missiles that crushed the legendary Zionist Merkava [tank].
“Houthi are in a civil war, their issue!”
>>yes they are. BUT STILL they attacked and hijacked a ship in international waters, in the mistaken belief that it had Israeli owned. An act of piracy Still they have attacked US targets, thereby inviting deadly retaliaion. Stil they threaten Israel. What does this Houthi illegal, aggressive behavior have to do with the civil war in Yemen?. Even the Houthis do not cite their civil war as a cause for their aggressive behaviour.
“We also thank on behalf of the resistance all the figures, organizations and countries, both Arab and Muslim, and [other] dignitaries worldwide, who helped our people and supported the Palestinian cause, especially Qatar and Turkey…