24 April 2002

In the name of Allah the most Gracious the most Merciful

 To Palestinian children

Your precious blood should not be wasted

The mischievous Jews’ savage massacres had a great impact on the Palestinian children. Such pogroms pushed those children to sacrifice their lives in several attempts to get even with the enemies. However, our heroic children’s attempts posed as a dangerous phenomenon that might waste the lives of many of them at the walls of Jewish settlements, which constituted a national catastrophe at a time when we are passing through a serious turning point in our Jihad march. Our children’s blood must be preserved until they grow up for they are the assets for the future and their role in Jihad has not come yet.

We in the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, are proud of Palestine’s children and ask for the following:

1-We appeal to Khatib (preachers) in mosques to address this matter in their Khutba (sermons) and lessons. We hope that they would try to put an end to it while treating the whole affair with absolute caution and wisdom.

2-We also appeal to the dignified teachers in schools to allocate part of their time to treat this phenomenon without foiling our children’s Jihad spirit.

3-We finally appeal to our brave children to abide by Islamic ethics including obeying orders. They should not venture to attack Jewish settlements until they reach the appropriate age qualifying them to such missions. They should then wait for the chance to receive proper training to perform a Jihad role to actualize their wish of inflicting casualties in lines of the enemy. They must realize that preparation for such a duty was a must as in Allah’s Words: “Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power”. Waiting for the proper age of soldiery is one of the elements for preparing strength. Preparing necessary plans to secure success of Jihad operations is also among the seeds of strength. Those children should also know that their blood is precious and must not be wasted in an uncalculated adventure.

We hope that all honorable people would cooperate to put an end to this phenomenon and find a suitable solution to it.

And it is a Jihad until either victory or martyrdom

The Islamic Resistance Movement
Hamas – Palestine
Wednesday 11/2/1423H
24/4/2002AD