Abu Obaida, spokesman of the Qassam Brigades, has confirmed on Saturday that capturing more Zionist soldiers still an option for the Palestinian resistance in order to pressure the Zionist entity into releasing Palestinian detainees.

In an interview with the local Palestine newspaper, Abu Obaida asserted that "the recent Hizbullah-Zionist prisoners' swap deal proved that it is possible to break the Zionist standards in releasing detainees, and that it is also possible to achieve big victories on the occupation under the pressure of the resistance".

But although he expressed hopes that the Hizbullah swap would help achieve another swap deal in the Gaza Strip, Abu Obaida explained that the Gaza swap deal would be more complicated than that of Hizbullah due to the extraordinary conditions in Palestine under the occupation and due to the Zionist siege on Gaza.

He also acknowledged that the big number of Palestinian captives in Zionist jails, and the big number of Palestinian prisoners which the captors of Shalit demand to be swapped with captured Zionist soldier Gilad Shalit had possibly made the Zionist occupation government hesitant to accept a swap deal with Hamas.

However, he added, pressure from the Zionist public to negotiate a swap deal for Shalit were mounting, especially after the successful swap deal with Hizbullah party in Lebanon.

"We could say that sooner or later, the Zionist occupation would finally bow to our demands, and if entity doesn’t, then there will be no deal at all", affirmed Abu Obaida.

Moreover, Abu Obaida revealed that role of the Egyptian mediator in pressuring the Zionist occupation government into accepting a swap deal with Hamas was still weak in the absence of Arab and Muslim support for that role.

"We indeed still view the Egyptian role in pressuring the occupation as feeble, which is also considered one of the factors that delay the proposed prisoners swap deal between the Palestinian resistance and the Zionist entity", the Al Qassam Brigades spokesman, furthermore, underlined.

As far as the truce in Gaza Strip is concerned, Abu Obaida affirmed that the Zionist occupation was disavowing its obligations towards the Palestinians as stipulated in terms and conditions of the calm agreement, which, he added, could force the Palestinian resistance factions to take a collective decision to end the truce, and to resume military operations in order to break the Zionist siege on Gaza.

In this regard, Abu Obaida confirmed readiness of Hamas Movement and the rest of the Palestinian resistance factions to block and repel any possible Zionist troops' adventure into the tiny Strip.

"We don’t trust the Zionist occupation's goodwill, and thus, we have all the right to remain vigilant and prepared in the event the Zionist occupation breached the truce and opted for military confrontation with the Palestinian resistance", stressed Abu Obaida.

In a related matter, resistance men of the Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas Movement, carried out military maneuvers in Gaza city using live ammunition on Friday night.

According to residents of the city's southwestern suburb of Sabra, the maneuvers were impressive, adding that the Al Qassam Brigades fighters were very organized during those exercises.

Sources close to Hamas confirmed that the exercises were part of the Al Qassam Brigades preparations for any possible military confrontation with the Zionst troops in Gaza Strip

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