27 March 2001

Press Release

Zionists commit a new   of crime

In line with the Zionist enemy’s terrorist schemes against our unarmed Mujahid people, the Zionists launched a new method in confronting our people and their blessed intifada, which is ever escalating.

The Zionists inundated the Shija’iah suburb in Gaza city with water, some of which was sewerage water, after opening huge water tanks that used to store water inside occupied Palestinian territories in 1948 and some of which are adjacent to the Gaza Strip leading to a humanitarian disaster that damaged houses, cattle and plantations in addition to paralyzing life activity of our people in the area.

The Zionists’ use of such a method in confronting our people and intifada points to a serious escalation and a cowardly act that targets breaking the determination of our people and aborting their intifada and struggle. It further represents the start of a new aggression planned by terrorist Sharon’s government and his gang, which stipulates using all means.

We, from the heart of Palestine, which is throbbing with Jihad and resistance, ask our Arab and Islamic Nation to boost its stands and solidarity with our besieged people and to support our people in face of that disaster that covered a whole region adjacent to the occupation forces and settlers.

Such a method displays the enemy’s bankruptcy and failure in confronting our people and their intifada. It will never weaken our people’s determination and insistence on persisting along the road of Jihad and struggle regardless of circumstances for the sake of realizing freedom, liberating Al-Quds and the Aqsa and returning our people to their homeland and property from which they were forcibly evacuated.

The Islamic Resistance Movement
Hamas – Palestine
2nd Muharram 1422H
27th March 2001AD