27/12/2008 Hamas vowed Saturday revenge for the Israeli aggression against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip that killed at least 205 people and injured over 300. Hamas called on all other Palestinian resistance factions to join in the fight.
 
Today we are stronger then we've ever been," one spokesperson for the group said at a press conference. "We won't raise the white flag, we won't give anything up, and we won't retreat."
 
"We call on the Arab states in the region to take a stance against this massacre and not to be satisfied with just condemnations," he continued.
 
In retaliation for the most barbaric crime in Gaza, over 80 rockets and mortar shells struck areas throughout the western Negev. In Netivot, one settler was killed; five others were injured when their house was hit by a rocket. Hamas had launched dozens of projectiles on the settlements. In Ashkelon, at least 10 rocket strikes were reported, with one hitting an apartment building.
 
Qassam rocket struck Kiryat Gat. The "Color Red" warning siren also sounded for the first time in Ashdod.
 
"Hamas will continue the resistance until the last drop of blood," said Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum, speaking on a Gaza radio station.
 
Earlier, and after the Israeli massacres Hamas called on its fighters to hit back at the Zionist entity. "We call on all units to avenge with force against the enemy," a Hamas spokesman said in a message broadcast on the Islamic movement's radio.
 
“All fighters are ordered to respond to the Israeli slaughter," said a statement by the Islamic Jihad group, echoing statements issued by Hamas and other armed resistance factions.
 
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said that he was in "urgent contact" with numerous countries over the deadly Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip. "We have carried out urgent contacts with numerous Arab countries and other nations to stop the cowardly aggressions and massacres in the Gaza Strip," Abbas said from Saudi Arabia which he is currently visiting.