Senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh continued to threaten Israel on Thursday, declaring in a speech in Khan Yunis that Hamas will never back down from its goal of controlling all of what it considers "Palestine", and urging Palestinian Arabs to continue attacking Israelis.<br />"Hamas will not accept a solution apart from Palestine on all the land from the river to the sea," he said in the speech, excerpts of which were quoted by NRG/Makor Rishon.<br />"We are building the power underground and above ground.<br />Behind enemy lines.<br />On the earth, sea and sky."<br />"We are building the power here that will surprise the world, not just to defend Gaza, but to liberate Jerusalem and liberate the Al-Aqsa Mosque and to free all of Palestine," said Haniyeh, whose relatives have in the past received medical treatment in Israeli hospitals.<br />Haniyeh in his speech also praised terrorist Nashat Milhem, who remains at large a week after murdering three people in Tel Aviv last Friday.
