23 November 2000

In the name of Allah the most Gracious the most Merciful

Press Release
On the Zionist assassination of Mujahid Ibrahim Abdul Karim
One of the Qassam Brigades’ commanders

The Zionist occupation forces, in consistency with their savage crimes against our steadfast people, today assassinated Mujahid Ibrahim Abdul Karim Bani Odeh from the town of Tammon, Nablus district. A missile that targeted his car led to the immediate martyrdom of Ibrahim, who was one of the commanders of the Qassam Brigades.

The martyr was released from the Palestinian Authority’s Junaid prison last night along with seven others on temporary basis.

The cold-blooded murder of martyr Ibrahim Abdul Karim at the hands of occupation forces follows the same suit of yesterday’s crime in the Gaza Strip when occupation soldiers murdered four Palestinians in broad daylight. It also falls in line with the occupation forces’ series of daily crimes against our unarmed people, which will never dissuade our Mujahid people from continuing with the Aqsa intifada and brave struggle for the sake of liberating our lands and defeating the occupiers.

We, in the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, affirm that blood of the heroic martyr and those of all Aqsa martyrs will turn into fire burning the usurpers.

The Islamic Resistance Movement
(Hamas – Palestine)
23 November 2000