3 April  2001

In the name of Allah the most gracious the most Merciful

Assassinating Mujahid Mohammed Abdel Aal

New cowardly crime by coward people

The coward Zionist enemy, ascertaining its savagery, endorsing its terrorism against our Mujahid people and implementing the cowardly scheme of assassinations, has assassinated Mujahid Mohammed Abdel Aal in the southern city of Rafah. He was one of the Islamic Jihad Movement’s Mujahideen and a fighter who worked alongside our people’s Mujahideen.

The enemy’s persistence in its campaign of liquidation and shelling of cities such as what took place in Bethlehem, Khalil (Hebron), Rafah, Khan Younis and Beit Lahya, and which included the abduction and detention of numerous Palestinians working in the Authority or members of Islamic and national forces, exposes the nature of that cowardly war launched by that damned enemy. The Zionist enemy is preparing for a large-scale war on all levels against our heroic people.

The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, mourns the martyr Mohammed Abdel Aal and affirms its insistence on the road of Jihad and resistance against the enemy and its herds of settlers. It also affirms that the cowardly assassinations, cruel bombardment, kidnapping and arrests will not terrorize our people and will not affect their insistence on Jihad and struggle in face of that enemy. We will confront that offensive via a lengthy march of Jihad and we will humiliate the enemy and spread terror in its usurping entity until Allah’s victory is achieved for our people and Nation.

And it is a Jihad until victory or martyrdom

The Islamic Resistance Movement
Hamas – Palestine
9 Muharram 1422AH
3^rd April 2001AD