Iran-backed forces in Gaza adopted an optimistic tone in the face of Israeli airstrikes, as the militants maintain the long-running Israeli-Palestinian conflict has reached a new phase.

“Sooner or later, the Zionist regime will have to submit to the conditions set by [Palestinian] resistance groups,” Hamas spokesman Abdul Latif al Qunu said Monday, according to Iranian state media. “The fact that the Zionist regime’s armed forces target Palestinian infrastructure, roads and houses shows its real inability to confront the resistance’s attacks.”