24 October 2001

In the name of Allah the most Gracious the most Merciful

Massacre in Beit Reema … where is al-Mo’tasem?!

Our Arab and Islamic Nation:

A new massacre is committed by the Zionsit enemy this time in Beit Reema village, Ramallah district, scores of martyrs and wounded have fallen in the streets, squares and olive orchards of that village. The enemy has prevented paramedics from carrying away the bodies of martyrs or extending assistance to the wounded and has even fired at the doctors and medical teams. Such acts have been taking place today and last night in Beit Reema while scores of martyrs were falling in Tulkarm, Qalqilya and Bethlehem.

Our Arab and Islamic masses:

Our Mujahid, patient and steadfast people in Beit Reema and in the entire land of Palestine are asking today what is our Nation waiting for? What is our Nation’s reaction while witnessing its sons in the holy land murdered, slaughtered and their houses and villages demolished and destroyed? Is such silence towards this pogrom permissible among brothers and holders of the same religion? Will Arab dignity and chivalry accept continuation of that silence? What is the Nation waiting for, if such daily shed blood did not make it act?

We ask the Nation’s leaders and governments to shoulder their historic responsibility towards the Zionist enemy’s massacres of our people. We urge them to embark on an urgent initiative and practical steps to save and defend our people and check the Zionist aggressions. We call on them to exercise real and serious pressure on the American administration to halt the enemy’s massacre and end its protection of Sharon and his terrorist government.

We affirm that our people and Mujahid forces would remain loyal to their pledge of persisting in Jihad and resistance, defending their lands and holy shrines and remaining patient and steadfast for the sake of Allah. We also invite our Nations’ masses to rescue their brothers in Palestine and beseech them to commence practical steps to end that carnage and check its possible spread into other areas.

Our Mujahid and patient people:

Our enemy is only deterred by force and only steadfastness and confrontation would halt its aggression. In such difficult moments, we call on all our people’s forces and factions especially the resistance brigades in the Qassam, Aqsa Martyrs, Martyr Abu Ali Mustafa, Quds and elements of the Palestinian Authority police and national security to unite their efforts in confrontation of the Zionist enemy that is launching an open war. We urge them to retaliate to the atrocities in an open confrontation that would target all of its leaderships, soldiers and settlers in away that reaches the depth of its security.

“So lose not heart, nor fall into despair: for ye must gain mastery if ye are true in Faith.”

And it is a Jihad until either victory or martyrdom

The Islamic Resistance Movement
Hamas – Palestine
Wednesday 7^th Sha’aban 1422H
24/10/2001AD