The Islamic terrorist group Hamas has threatened Israel with more terror attacks and suicide bombings ahead of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan that begins March 23.
“The desire to commit suicide among the residents of the West Bank is unprecedented,” the deputy commander of Hamas’ military wing, Marwan Issa, declared in an interview published on Wednesday.
The warning comes as Israeli security experts believe that Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) plan to use the Ramadan season to escalate violence and trigger a third intifada, a reference to the two previous waves of Palestinian mass-rioting and terror attacks against Israel between 1987–1993 and 1999–2004.
The Palestinian terror groups also seek to galvanize the jihadist sentiment across the Arab and the Muslim world by making false claims that Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque was under threat from Israel.
“Security tensions rise ahead of Ramadan as Hamas issues threats,” by Jonathan Regev, i24news, March 15, 2023:
In a rare interview, the deputy commander of the Hamas military wing in Gaza, Marwan Issa, said that any change in the status quo on Jerusalem’s flashpoint Temple Mount will shake the entire region and Gaza will not remain quiet.
“We will protect our people with all our might, when direct intervention on our part is required,” he said.
He also claimed that the political solution in the West Bank “is a thing of the past” and threatened that “the next few days will bring (significant) events.”
“The desire to commit suicide among the residents of the West Bank is unprecedented and the state of resistance in the West Bank is excellent. So is the state of national unity in the face of the Occupation,” the Hamas official claimed.
In recent years, the Muslim holy month of Ramadan has been a period of violence. In 2021, it led to Operation “Guardian of the Walls” in Gaza. While some in the region are hoping to avoid a [repeat] scenario, others seem to be pushing for it.
As Ramadan approaches, Palestinian terrorist groups have unleashed a wave of attacks targeting Israeli civilians and armed forces. On January, a Palestinian gunman murdered seven Jewish worshipers leaving an East Jerusalem synagogue.
Since then, Palestinian terrorists and Islamists have carried out a series of attacks. These attacks are followed by public celebrations in Hamas-controlled Gaza and the Palestinian Authority-ruled West Bank. Palestinians are seen handing out sweets on the streets, and holding processions amid the chants of “Allahu akbar.”
Deodata says
Surely soon the Israelis will get fed up and go on the offensive, I and others wouldn’t blame them, the rest of the world would condemn them but would do exactly the same if it was their country under daily attack
OLD GUY says
Ramadan and the message of peace? Hamas just threatened Israel with bombing. Where is the UN and it’s leaders on this peaceful Islamic holiday.
Walter Sieruk says
Be such bombings before or after Ramadan those bombings are a horrendous murderous evil.
Therefore, in this twenty-first century conflict between the Judeo- Christian West and the Islamic East which also has been termed “The war of Ideas” the West needs ideas for its very foundation and defense that is far superior to something as weak and worthless as just “opinion.”
What the West needs is wisdom. As the Bible instructs “Wisdom is better than strength.” Ecclesiastes 9:16. [N.K.J.V.] Likewise, this same book of the Bible also teaches in 9:18 “Wisdom is better than weapons of war.” Therefore, wisdom is in strong contrast to opinion. Also greatly opposed to wisdom is folly and deceit. As the Bible in Proverbs 14:8 informs the reader ‘The folly of fools is deceit.”
This deception of deceit may be seen, by all those who are willing to see, in the Islamic doctrine of a virgin filled paradise designed specify for the male Muslim jihadist who dies in the jihad for the cause of Islam, in what they so inappropriately call a “martyrdom operation.” Many a times a jihadist/Muslim is so very deluded that he actually put on his video recording that after he dies in the jihad as a “martyr” he will then in paradise have a “wedding with virgins.” This firm but blind unquestioning folly is the result of such a man believing in deception of a false doctrine. With Light of the Wisdom of Jesus a belief in a “wedding with virgins.” is the outcome of a person accepting as the “truth” an invalid and false. For Jesus taught “you are mistaken, not knowing the Scripture nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are as the angles in heaven.” Matthew 22:29,30.
A jihadist will after dies and such a murderous way will have a very hard and harsh “reality check” In that “his expectation will perish…” Proverb 11:7. For he will then discover that he was deceived by false doctrine and lie of “a paradise with virgins” and to his shock and horror he will find himself trapped and suffering ,with no hope of escape, in the fires of hell. As the Bible teaches a murder “will not inherit the kingdom of God,” Galatians 5:21. This is sad and tragic but nevertheless it’s the reality of the truth.
Walter Sieruk says
Whenever a that kind of jihad bombings occurs it’s a deadly affront occurs. It’s a sin unto God and a crime against humans.
Any jihadist just after his Islamic suicide /homicide attack right after he died ,to his shock and horror, he found himself trapped and suffering in the fires of an awful place the Bible calls “hell.” Luke 16:19-31. That jihad minded Muslim of ISIS was dangerous to self and others because that he was indoctrinated with and likewise believed in the doctrine found in the Quran, 44:54. 55:56. 78;31.,of a lust –filled sex paradise with many virgins, in in for his use only, because he died as a “martyr” for the cause of Islam. That jihadist will discover the hard way that he was instructed in and put his faith in a false doctrine that is from a false religious book of false religion .This doctrine of a paradise for the jihadist who died fighting for Islam was only an enticing religious story of fiction. The Bible does give warning against giving “heed to fables…” First Timothy 1:4. [N.K.J.V]
As for dying in a murderous jihad attack, in spite, of the Muslim clerics falsely calling it a “martyrdom operation.” That jihadist after in dies in a jihad murder attack, and learn too late, the truth of Bible with informs its reader that a murderer “will not inherit the Kingdom of God.” Galatians 5:21.
In addition, such false teachers, as those imams and mullahs, who teach and ingrain false yet enticing doctrines as that a lust /sex fill place with virgins into the hearts and minds of others had been predicted in the Bible. For it is written, “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine , but according to their own desires , because they have itching ears ; they will heap up for themselves teachers ;and they will away their ears from the truth and be turned to fables.” Second Timothy 4 : 3,4.