Hamas representative in Lebanon Osama Hamdan stressed on Sunday that the resistance has the right to bring weapons into Gaza, Lebanon's New TV reported.

"The resistance has the right to posses and acquire weapons in the Gaza strip and the West bank," Hamdan was quoted as saying.

He vowed that the resistance will not surrender to any measure imposed on it, which would deprive it from its arms, stressing that "the enemy will not get by politics what it could not get by war."

The Hamas leader affirmed that the resistance will not accept the presence of Israeli forces on Rafah crossing, the way it was before.

Addressing Arab moderate countries without naming them, he said "those who are addicted to defeat and surrender do not know the meaning of dignity."

"They were not neutral during the war on Gaza, they were a part of the aggression," he added.

Hamas movement is the main Palestinian stream in the Gaza Strip, which was targeted in 22-day devastating offensive by Israel since December 27, 2008.