11 April  2001

In the name of Allah the most Gracious the most Merciful

Zionist criminals demolish houses on its inhabitants

Our Mujahid Palestinian people …

Our Arab and Islamic Nation …

The Zionist enemy is launching a ferocious war using its terrorist war machine against our people. In one of its beastly and dirty offensives, the enemy forces launched a barbaric assault against our steadfast people in Khan Younis refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. They razed around 30 houses to the ground with all their furniture and other contents. They frightened children and women and attacked the camp like wild beasts: shelling, demolishing and destroying whatever was in their way.

This cowardly war unleashed by terrorist Sharon and his terrorist gang against our people, in which he dares to storm areas previously evacuated, points to the enemy’s murderous and destructive plans carried out by land, sea and air.

Our Palestinian people, who are resisting, challenging and defending in absolute bravery and who stand united in face of continuous treachery, asks our Arab and Islamic Nation: why this silence and humiliation? Why fly to Washington to seek solutions while our Palestinian people are continuing to sacrifice blood and soul for the sake of Allah and in defense of the Nation’s dignity and sanctities that are occupied by the Zionists with complete American support.

We warn the Nation against repercussions of this war, which is escalating against our unarmed people, especially when that enemy was still mobilizing its forces at the outskirts of the Khan Younis refugee camp and along all borders with Palestine occupied in 1948 in a bid to repeat its storming operations and inflict more killing and destruction and to further frighten children, elderly and women.

Let the Nation stand united and let its marches and protests against the usurping occupation hit the streets of all Arab and Muslim lands.

We affirm that our Mujahid people will not be intimidated by this terrorism and that their march will not be halted by those aggressions depending, in this regard, on Allah first then on our glorified people and Nation.

The martyrs in the Khan Younis battle the martyr hero Elias Abu Issa and the martyr hero Hani Abu Rezk along with scores of wounded persons are enough proof of that enemy’s savagery. They also affirm that our people will persist along the Jihad and resistance march and will never surrender or bow down except to almighty Allah.

And it is a Jihad until either victory or martyrdom

The Islamic Resistance Movement
Hamas – Palestine
17 Muharram 1422H
11^th April 2001AD