Khalil al-Hayya: Ansarullah “has tilted the balance” in favor of Palestinians

GAZA, Dec. 18 (YPA) – A senior Hamas official has reaffirmed that the movement will not enter into talks over a new prisoner swap deal with Israel until the regime’s ongoing genocidal war on the Gaza Strip comes to an end.

Khalil al-Hayya, a member of the Hamas’ Political Bureau, made the remarks in an interview with Qatar’s Al Jazeera television network on Sunday.

“The resistance rejects the aggression of the enemy, which must be stopped before we can discuss prisoner exchanges,” he said.

“The issue of prisoner exchange is closed until the cessation of the war,” al-Hayya asserted, reiterating, “We want an end to the aggression. Then we will start reconstruction and construction [of Gaza], and after that we will talk about the prisoners.”

Meanwhile, The Hamas official, expressed gratitude towards Yemen’s Ansarullah resistance movement over its attacks on Israel-linked ships in the Red Sea in support of Palestinians in Gaza.

Ansarullah “has tilted the balance” in favor of Palestinians, he said, adding, “I am calling on our brothers in Yemen: Keep on following this path.”

Al-Hayya also thanked Iraqi resistance groups and Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement for their retaliatory strikes against Israel and its backers, and in support of Palestinians in Gaza, saying Hezbollah has managed to “distract the enemy on the northern front.”