7 August 2002

In the name of Allah the most Gracious the most Merciful

Qassam Brigades military communiqué

“Think not of those who are slain in the way of Allah, as dead. Nay they are living, with their Lord they have provision”

The Qassam Brigades mourns the martyrdom of the commander Mujahid: Hussam Ahmed Mohammed Nimir Hamdan, 27, from the Khan Younis refugee camp son of the Mujahid Sheikh Ahmed Nimir Hamdan.

He was assassinated on Wednesday morning 26^th Jumada Awal 1423H – 7/8/2002AD on roof of his house when snipers shot him from one of the Khan Younis settlements with four bullets in his chest while monitoring Jihad targets.

The assassination of commander Hussam Hamdan today affirms the policy of the oppressive state “Israel” in prosecuting Mujahideen and assassinating them in accordance with that Hebrew state’s systematic practice.

The state of “Israel” assassination of Mujahideen with the blessings of America is the best proof of international terrorism sponsored and blessed by America.

In face of such a sinful crime the Qassam Brigades would like to affirm the following:

First: We will continue to revenge for martyrs and be loyal to their blood deep inside our usurped country Palestine. We will not recognize the borders and we will not respect those who shell civilian homes.

Second: We condemn the silence of America and the world on continued presence of settlements on our country and we call on the world to denounce those settlements that plant death wherever they exist.

Third: We declare in the Qassam Brigades our denunciation of the voices of dissension that condemn use of Qassam missiles and mortar shells against those settlements.

And it is a Jihad until either victory or martyrdom

Qassam Brigades
Wednesday 26^th Jumada Awal 1423H
7/8/2002AD