Senior Hamas official Fawzi Barhoum on Wednesday branded the prisoner exchange deal with Israel as a victory for the terrorist organization.
'Strategic victory'
Senior Hamas official Fawzi Barhoum on Wednesday branded the prisoner exchange deal with Israel as a victory for the terrorist organization.
"We broke the enemy's political stance and created a situation that forced their leadership to succumb to our terms," he said. According to him, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas's military wing, "achieved a strategic victory on October 7 and will remain strong, ready to act if the occupation commits any violation."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Sunday that Hezbollah was seeking to rearm and that Israel would exercise its right to self-defence under last year's ceasefire accord if Lebanon failed to disarm the militant group.
Major Saudi Arabian firms are planning billion-dollar investments in Syria as part of the kingdom's business-forward approach to the country's recovery, but U.S. sanctions and a fractured Syrian state apparatus pose formidable obstacles.
Since the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in December 2024, more than 550,000 Syrian refugees have returned from Turkey to Syria, Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya announced on Saturday.
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