Hamas Calls on Trump to Learn Biden's Mistakes

Trump’s victory puts to test his earlier statements that he can stop the war in the Gaza Strip within hours, senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri told Reuters news agency.

The Democratic party’s loss is the natural price for its leadership’s “criminal stance” towards the blockaded territory, Abu Zuhri asaid.

“We urge Trump to learn from Biden’s mistakes,” the official added.

Another senior Hamas official told Agence France-Presse news agency that the US, under Trump, who claimed victory in the presidential election, must end its “blind support” for Israel in the war in the besieged enclave.

“This blind support for the Zionist entity must end because it comes at the expense of the future of our people and the security and stability of the region,” Bassem Naim, a member of Hamas’ political bureau, stated.

Trump had claimed that he's not going to start wars, but to stop wars.

Israel’s war on Gaza has killed over 43,000 people, mostly children and women, according to data from the health ministry in the besieged territory. More than 102,000 people have also been wounded, according to health officials.

The figures exclude tens of thousands of dead who are believed to be buried in the bombed-out ruins of homes, shops, shelters and other buildings.

The military campaign has turned much of the enclave of 2.3 million people into ruins, leaving most civilians homeless and at risk of famine.
The US has given military aid to Israel throughout the months-long war on the besieged enclave.

Critics have called on the administration of President Biden to cut off weapons and military equipment transfers to Israel, stressing that they make the US complicit in Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people in the tiny enclave.

Israel has struck nearly every part of the Gaza Strip using US-made bombs, according to Jewish Voice for Peace, an advocacy group that created a map showing over 70,000 bombs dropped on the besieged territory since October 2023, using United Nations satellite data.

Many in Gaza share that anger over Washington's willingness to keep shipping arms and military equipment to the Tel Aviv regime to carry out its campaign despite the death and devastation in Gaza. But across the territory, many say they were skeptical that either Harris or Trump would do much to improve their situation.

Many people interviewed in the enclave said they were more focused on keeping themselves and their loved ones alive after more than a year of war. They have had little access to electricity or the internet, or to adequate food and medicine, so they have not had much time to follow American politics.

Israelis generally believe that whoever wins, there won’t be a serious change in relations with the US, their most important ally. And many in Gaza agreed, stressing it was unlikely that Washington would waver in its support for Tel Aviv.