15 October 2001

In the name of Allah the most Gracious the most Merciful

Zionist enemy requests ceasefire while proceeding with terrorist policy of assassinating Palestinian cadres and Mujahideen

“How (can there be such a league), seeing that if they get an advantage over you, they respect not in you the ties either of kinship or of covenant?”

Our Mujahid people, who have chosen the road of intifada and resistance and shunned other roads, … the Zionist enemy is proceeding in its criminal schemes against our people without heeding anyone or paying attention to the so falsely called ceasefire. The enemy is besieging and storming cities and suburbs and assassinating our heroes in cold blood. It is exercising terrorism without anyone denouncing its deeds. The enemy is exploiting the international circumstances and the world’s preoccupation with the American-led war against Muslims in Afghanistan to carry out its terrorist crimes against this persevering people.

Yesterday the Zionist terrorist forces assassinated the Mujahid hero Abdul Rahman Hammad in Qalqilya district and today they assassinated another hero of our people and one of the cadres of the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, the Mujahid hero Ahmed Hassan Mohammed Marshood. The Mujahid had spent seven years in occupation jails for resisting Zionist occupation and for being a member in the Qassam Brigades. He was released by the end of 1999 only to continue to follow up concerns of the Palestinian detainees. He had lived with them and served them within the prison then served them outside it through his work in the ministry of prisoners’ affairs.

The cowardly assassination operation was carried out while Marshood was heading to his work at the office of the prisoners’ affairs ministry in the city of Nablus where a booby-trapped car, parking in front of the office, exploded when he was passing near it, which affirms that the operation was engineered by occupation and its agents.

Our Mujahid Palestinian people

The Zionist enemy’s continuous policy of terrorism against our people should not be met on the part our Palestinian people with raising the white flag, surrendering to the de facto situation and abiding by the ceasefire, which made the Zionist enemy go to extremes in its terrorist crimes.

Our Palestinian people will not let the blood of their martyrs go in vain, neither will they waste sacrifices or accomplishments of the intifada and resistance. Our people have the right to defend themselves and to resist the usurping occupiers with all available strength.

It is high time for our people and lions of resistance, brigades and factions of our people, to go on the offensive and to retaliate to the crimes of  the Zionist enemy with the language that it only understands.

 Allahu Akbar wa Lillahi Al-Hamad

And it is a Jihad until either victory or martyrdom

The Islamic Resistance Movement
Hamas – Palestine
15/10/2001