4 September 2002

In the name of Allah the most Gracious the most Merciful

Arresting and torturing Hamas leaders will not curb our insistence

on Jihad and resistance

The Zionist occupation authority has intensified its campaigns of assassinations, arrests and deportations in lines of the Palestinian people in addition to demolition of Palestinian houses over the past few weeks in a desperate attempt to halt the intifada and resistance. The occupation authorities focused on the assassinations and arrests of Hamas Movement Mujahideen, assassinating the Mujahid commanders Salah Shehade in Gaza Strip and Nasr Jarrar in the West Bank. The occupation authorities also arrested four of the Movement’s prominent leaders and Mujahideen: Hassan Yousef (Ramallah), Abdul Khaleq Natshe (Khalil), Jamal Abul Haija (Jenin) and Wajih Qawwas (Qalqilya) to join the previous leaders: Mohammed Jamal Natshe (Khalil), Jamal Tawil (Ramallah), Abbas Al-Sayyed (Tulkarm), Khaled Al-Haj (Jenin), Ghassan Hirmas (Bethlehem) and Khaled Tafesh (Bethlehem).

Available information indicated that those brothers are suffering due to cruel interrogation conditions and torture in occupation jails to grab any possible information from them on the one hand and to demoralize them on the other.

The Hamas Movement affirms that the occupation’s savage methods would not demoralize those heroes, God willing. The Movement also declares its pride over steadfastness of those heroes and calls on our Palestinian, Arab and Islamic masses to be rest assured that those arrests and other terrorist and repressive means will not check our Jihad and resistance. We also warn the occupation authorities that they will pay dearly. Deeds rather than words will confirm our statement Inshaallah.

A salutation to the Palestinian detainees in occupation prison and we promise them that we will remain proceeding along the road to release them and to liberate our holy land.

And it is a Jihad until either victory or martyrdom 

The Islamic Resistance Movement
Hamas – Palestine
Wednesday 26^th Jumada Thani 1423H
4^th September 2002AD