A senior Hamas leader called Wednesday for the formations of Palestinian resistance groups loyal to his Gaza-based Hamas movement in refugee camps in Lebanon and Syria for attacks on the Zionist entity.

A senior Hamas leader called Wednesday for the formations of Palestinian resistance groups loyal to his Gaza-based Hamas movement in refugee camps in Lebanon and Syria for attacks on the Zionist entity.

Mahmoud Zahar told reporters in the Gaza Strip that Lebanese and Syrian branches of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas' armed wing, should launch attacks on the occupied territories "to help us liberate Palestine".

He also denied "any interference" by Hamas in Egypt, which last month declared the Brigades a terrorist group and accused it of aiding a spate of militant attacks on security personnel in the restive Sinai Peninsula.

"Our guns are always trained on the enemy," Zahar said, referring to the Zionist entity.

The Zionist military launched a 50-day war on the Gaza Strip in mid-2014 that killed nearly 2,200 Palestinians, mostly civilians. While 73 Zionist were killed in the resistance retaliatory attacks, most of them soldiers.