No need in Gantz's acknowledgement

Hamas spokesman Hessam Badran says the resistance movement had downplayed the the Israeli Chief of Staff, Benny Gantz's acknowledgement that the Palestinian resistance fighters are valiant, saying the movement has no need in the military chief's admittance.

Pal-Today website quoted Badran as saying that the military chief had made the remarks in light of the large number of Israeli soldiers killed or wounded by the Palestinian fighters.

The spokesman added however that the acknowledgment helped thwart an internal schism against the resistance.

Badran was apparently alluding to PA head Mahmoud Abbas who had earlier called the Hamas fighters 'militia,' saying there is no prospect for a country in which militias account for that half of its population.