The Jerusalem Post reports: “Hamas leader-in-exile, Khaled Mashaal claimed the terrorist group would rise ‘like a phoenix’ from the ashes despite heavy losses during a year of war against Israel and that it continues to recruit fighters and manufacture weapons.

One year after the Hamas attack that triggered the war, Mashaal framed the conflict with Israel as part of a broader narrative spanning 76 years, dating back to what Palestinians call the ‘Nakba’ or ‘catastrophe,’ when many were displaced during the 1948 war that led to the independence of Israel.

‘Palestinian history is made of cycles,’ claimed Mashaal, a Hamas figure under leader Yahya Sinwar, told Reuters in an interview.

‘We go through phases where we lose martyrs, and we lose part of our military capabilities, but then the Palestinian spirit rises again, like the phoenix, thanks to God.’…”