Hamas: The massacres by Israel in Gaza and Khan Younis are a serious escalation and an attempt to resume genocide

The Hamas movement stated on Wednesday that the Israeli massacre in the cities of Gaza and Khan Younis, in which more than 25 Palestinians were killed, is a "serious escalation through which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seeks to resume the genocide against the Palestinian people."

This came in a statement from the movement commenting on the Israeli army's killing of 25 Palestinians and injuring 77 others earlier on Wednesday, in a series of successive airstrikes targeting several areas in the Gaza Strip, which it withdrew from, in a new violation of the ceasefire agreement.

It added: "We reject the Zionist claims about its forces being fired upon, and we consider them a weak and transparent attempt to justify its crimes and violations that have not ceased, as more than 300 martyrs have risen since the signing of the ceasefire agreement, and the policy of demolishing and blowing up houses has continued, along with the closure of the Rafah border crossing, in a blatant Israeli challenge to the American and regional guarantor."