Victims? Of jihad? What? Don’t they know it’s a struggle to better oneself?
“At Event Marking Hamas’ 35th Anniversary At Al-Quds University In East Jerusalem: Calls For Jihad To Liberate Palestine ‘From River To Sea,'” MEMRI, December 28, 2022:
Hamas’ student organization, the Islamic Bloc, is very active in the Palestinian universities in the West Bank, where it openly incites armed struggle and terrorist activity against Israel.[1] Recently, Islamic Bloc members held mass-events at several West Bank universities to mark the 35th anniversary of Hamas’ founding. At one of these events, which took place on December 11, 2022 at Al-Quds University in Abu Dis, a village in the Jerusalem area, students marched through the campus carrying flags and emblems of Hamas and of its military wing, the ‘Izz Al-Din Al-Qassam Brigades, the emblem of the Lions’ Den militia, and signs bearing slogans such as “resistance,” “I sow fear” and portraits of martyrs. The event was attended by young children.[2]
In a pre-recorded speech played at the event, Hamas’ spokesman for Jerusalem affairs Muhammad Hamada warned that “the [young] generation of the resistance is coming like a raging torrent to liberate Jerusalem, and no occupier or invader will stop it.”
A statement issued by the Islamic Bloc on the occasion of the anniversary asserted that Hamas would not stray from the path of jihad and resistance, whatever the number of victims may be, until it liberates all of Palestine from the River to the Sea….
On December 14, alongside the main event held in Gaza to mark Hamas’ 35th anniversary, the Islamic Bloc at the West Bank universities issued a statement that highlighted Hamas’ commitment to the armed struggle against Israel and also criticized the PA for the recent wave of arrests targeting Islamic Bloc activists. The statement said: “…With a flood of martyrs, prisoners, wounded and resistance that grows from day to day, Hamas, on the 35th anniversary of its founding, is advancing towards the liberation of all of Palestine from the Sea to the River, along with its [Palestinian] people and its [Islamic] nation. Thirty-five years of giving, resistance, sacrifice and defiance. [Hamas] never bargained and never relinquished a single grain of our pure soil. [Over the years] it sacrificed its leaders, its front-line fighters and the best of its men and soldiers, who were martyred. It will not weaken and will not abandon its people despite the aggression, pressure and persecution from within and without [i.e., by the PA and by Israel].
“O free men, O our resistance-fighting people, who are the haven and the fuel of the resistance. The founding of Hamas was a natural continuation of our people’s path of struggle and resistance, which has been ongoing since the British occupation of Palestine… On the 35th anniversary of the blessed founding of our movement, we proudly uphold our people’s path of resistance, sacrifice and martyrdom, and beseech [Allah] to have mercy on the souls of our martyred founders and leaders, chief of them the jihad-fighting sheikh and founding Imam, the martyr Ahmad Yassin, and all our pure-hearted martyred leaders. We also mention our martyred compatriots from the [other] resistance factions, such as the martyred commander Yasser ‘Arafat Abu ‘Amar; the martyred commander Fathi Shqaqi [founder of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad]; the martyred commander Abu ‘Ali Mustafa [secretary-general of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine]; the martyred commander ‘Omar Al-Qassem [of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine], and an endless roster of [other] heroes who decorate Palestine’s procession of martyrs…
“Our free and proud people, on the 35th anniversary of [Hamas’] founding, the PA security apparatuses insist on continuing the policy of oppression, exclusion and persecution [against us], as part of the policy of security coordination with the occupation. They are currently engaged in a mad operation of arresting Hamas and Islamic Bloc members and of summoning them for questioning, in all the cities, villages and [refugee] camps [of the West Bank]… We in the Islamic Bloc, the student organization of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas, stress on the anniversary of the blessed founding [of our movement] that these depraved actions will not frighten us… We shall not stray from the path of jihad and resistance, no matter what the number of victims may be. [This] path, blazed by the blood and sacrifice of our martyred leaders, is the path we believe will lead us to our goal: liberating the land and [its] holy sites and expelling the oppressive occupier from every inch of it. Lastly, we reiterate our commitment to our Palestine, to every martyr and prisoner, to every gun[man] of the resistance who raised the banner of defending our people and whose compass has never shifted to serving the occupation. [We are committed to] jihad until [achieving] victory or martyrdom…”
࿗Infidel࿘ says
How does Israel allow a Hamas university in any part of Jerusalem?
ploome says
How does the US, UN and EU support, fund and encourage jihad and murder of Israelis?
ElderlyZionist says
When you kill enough of them, they stop fighting. It just hasn’t been done, yet.