8 October 2000

In the name of Allah the most Gracious the most Merciful

The holy Aqsa Intifadha
From Lebanon to Palestine … 
one people who do not capitulate

Our Mujahid Palestinian people:

From the land of Jihad, sacrifice and liberation Lebanon … to the land of resistance, steadfastness and conquer Insha’all Palestine … our Palestinian masses marched from the steadfast camps in Lebanon to the northern borders of Palestine to smell the scent of the Aqsa, the country and martyrdom. They affirmed their loyalty to the option of Jihad and struggle and their constant belonging to Palestine and their support to the steadfast and revolting people there. Yet the enemy, whose nature is treachery, would not allow the spirit of Jihad to move from Palestine to our people in the camps and the diaspora. So the enemy’s soldiers fired at our unarmed people and two martyrs fell to join the convoy of martyrs those of the Aqsa’s Intifadha. The blood of those martyrs and that of the other wounded men thus declared that there would be no surrender to that enemy and that our people in the diaspora, similar to our people at home, reject all forms of humiliated settlements, refuse to erase Palestine from their memory and affirm that Jihad and struggle are the means of returning to their homeland. All hail to our Mujahid Palestinian masses in Lebanon and salutations to the Mujahid people of Lebanon and to the blessed hands that are throwing the enemy with stones.

Our Mujahid Palestinian people … Our Arab, Islamic Nation:

We would like here to re-affirm unity of Palestinian blood within and outside the usurped homeland. We would also like to affirm that our brothers in Hizbullah through retaliating to the enemy’s bombardment by shelling its military positions and capturing three soldiers, assert the unity of that nation in confrontation against the Zionist enemy and the Nation’s insistence on the option of resistance and Jihad. They further prove that our people were not alone in the field but rather that the whole Nation was backing them. We thus greet our brothers in Hizbullah and our Arab, Islamic Nation and we call on our Nation to exert more action against the Zionist enemy.

Our Palestinian people … Our Arab, Islamic Nation:

The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, hails the martyrs of our people in south Lebanon and affirms that it would shoulder its duty towards the families of both heroes:

The martyr hero Hassan Hassanain
The martyr hero Shadi Anas

We renew our pledge before Allah then before our people and Nation that we will remain guardians of our wounded and martyrs ‘s blood and will continue to look after our captives. We affirm that the blood and sufferings will not go unheeded but rather, with the will of Allah, would furnish the road to victory, liberation and dignity.

“Allah has decreed: It is I and My messengers who must prevail”

“Allah will certainly aid those who aid His (cause)”

Allahu Akbar … and victory to our people and our Nation

The Islamic Resistance Movement
(Hamas – Palestine)
Sunday 8 October 2000