Abu Obeida, the spokesperson of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, issued a statement on Sunday, April 5 in video, urging widespread action and resistance to defend Al-Aqsa Mosque, which has been forcibly closed by the occupation in Al-Quds for over 37 days, and the Palestinian prisoners, subjected to the new “execution law” of the Zionist regime.
The statement highlights the united fronts of resistance and battle in Palestine, Iran, Lebanon and Yemen, emphasizing that the fight against aggression in the Islamic Republic, in Lebanon and in Yemen is one with the battle in Palestine. He further emphasized that these battles are an “extension of Al-Aqsa Flood,” and urged broad unity to confront the common enemy.
Abu Obeida also saluted the popular mobilizations that are rising up for the prisoners and Al-Aqsa, paying special attention to the widespread demonstrations in Syria, and called upon the free people of the world to take to public squares and surround the occupation embassies:
“From this land that has offered all it has, and embraced the bodies of its sons in its depths for the sake of its Al-Aqsa, and broke the chains of thousands of our prisoners with its great sacrifices, we call on the masses of our Palestinian people in the valiant West Bank and blessed Al-Quds, and the occupied interior, to march towards the Al-Aqsa Mosque. We also urge the masses of our Islamic nation and the free people of the world to take to the streets and continue protest activities in public squares, and around the occupation’s embassies, in anger for Al-Aqsa and the prisoners. All the resistance forces of our nation, wherever they are, are called upon to make the Zionist enemy pay exorbitant prices for the crime of closing Al-Aqsa, and to strive by all possible means to liberate the prisoners. We also call on the youth of our people, the men of resistance, and our lone wolves in the West Bank, Al-Quds, and the occupied interior to rise up and carry out qualitative operations in defense of their sanctities and in pursuit of freeing their prisoners.”
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network noted, “As a global anti-imperialist movement, among Palestinians in exile and diaspora, and among liberation movements and every human who struggles for justice, we must meet this horrific law – and the ongoing aggression on Palestine, Lebanon and the Islamic Republic of Iran — with nothing less than complete rejection and a globalized intifada…Every one of the lives of our prisoners, our resistance fighters, our strugglers and our martyrs is precious and dear, and must carry a high cost, with the kind of pressure that goes beyond words of condemnation into actions of isolation and the imposition of accountability. The liberation of the prisoners is the gateway to the liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea.”
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The full translated English text of Abu Obeida’s statement is below:
Praise be to Allah, Lord of the Worlds, who honors His believing servants, and crushes the tyrants and the arrogant, even if after a while. He, the Exalted, said, commanding the Muslims to unite their ranks in the face of the disbelievers: “And those who disbelieve are allies to one another. If you do not do so, there will be fitnah on earth and great corruption.” Peace and blessings be upon our Prophet, the mujahid, the martyr, and upon his family and companions, and those who follow them in righteousness until the Day of Judgment, and upon the sincere mujahideen, and the steadfast, patient defenders seeking reward, in all our Arab and Islamic lands. To proceed:
It is no secret to any observer what we are going through in recent years, a decisive phase in the history of this Ummah, and a clear, shining milestone on the path to restoring its glory and status among nations, and lifting the occupation that has befallen it, and the enemies’ domination over its resources, sanctities, and children.
The Islamic Ummah is experiencing the events of the fiercest and most brutal Zionist-American savage attack, during which the mujahideen and leaders dedicated themselves, along with their families and peoples, and offered their blood, their souls, and their most precious possessions as credentials among the truthful, who speak the word and follow it with action. So blessed are the sacrificing, patient people of Gaza, and behind them the people of Palestine, and everyone who sacrificed and contributed from our Ummah and the free people of the world in this pivotal era.
We are facing an armed military aggression and blatant thuggery that violates all international agreements and the noble ethics of peoples, tearing up the UN Charter with shells and missiles, after having torn its pages on its podium before. An aggression that does not hide that it came to rob the will and wealth of the peoples, and their right to choose the system of life and governance they accept. It brings to us via tanks and planes programs of social, religious, and cultural change, to alter the concepts of the Islamic religion, dismantle the components of the Arab and Islamic nation, and destroy its present and future, in a way that ensures its complete submission to Zionist hegemony in the region, and diverts its compass from its major causes, foremost among them the cause of Palestine and the blessed Al-Aqsa.
For after the war of genocide and ethnic cleansing on Gaza, and the most horrific massacres in modern history, whose chapters are still ongoing, here it is expanding its aggression, and dragging its masters into war. It seeks safety but reaps fear and isolation, and calls for an illusory peace through brute force, spreading destruction throughout the entire region, which has been afflicted by it and its inferiority complex. Its evil did not stop there; rather, we now see its repercussions on the whole world, in terms of woes and instability on all levels, the main and sole cause of which is the reckless, unjustified war into whose furnace the Zionists have thrown the region and indeed the world.
Their savagery was not satisfied by the massacres of Gaza, and the bombing of Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, and Syria, nor even the targeting of the sisterly State of Qatar, while it was making strenuous and sincere mediation efforts to stop the war of genocide. So they began a brutal, treacherous aggression against the sisterly Islamic Republic, in the midst of the deception of negotiations, in full complicity and conspiracy with the United States. This was followed by an aggression on sisterly Lebanon, paved by violations over fifteen months, striking all the rules of the alleged international law, which was specifically designed to be applied to the weak and oppressed and to serve the interests of tyrants. But the just law of heaven says unequivocally: “Permission [to fight] has been given to those who are being fought, because they were wronged. And indeed, Allah is competent to give them victory.”
And now the ugliness of this temporary entity has been exposed before the sons of our Ummah, and its weakness and total dependence have become apparent to them, on the lifeline of people, which will not last forever left to its own devices. And its face has been blackened before its friends, for whom it no longer constitutes the successful project as an advanced colonial outpost in the region, nor the bright moral face that they wanted to market as the only democracy in it. Rather, it appears today to everyone with insight that it is a weak, transient entity that has failed to integrate, and failed to achieve superiority over its surroundings, despite uninterrupted support, and has even failed to maintain a false moral image, as the world today sees it only as a destabilizing factor, feeding on stoking wars and perpetuating conflicts, and an outcast child killer striving to spread corruption on earth. “Every time they kindled the fire of war, Allah extinguished it. And they strive throughout the land [causing] corruption, and Allah does not like corrupters.”
In light of all these successive developments, and the absolute global silence, the one-eyed, hypocritical world with its double standards only raises its voice to demand that Palestinians make more concessions and implement the requirements of the second phase of the Gaza agreement, ignoring the occupation’s denial and failure to commit to any of the agreement’s terms, by continuing to target civilians and civil police elements, to create a security vacuum and attempt to spread chaos, as well as turning the so-called yellow line into a death trap for the innocent, drip-feeding relief and shelter supplies, and closing the Rafah crossing to the wounded and travelers, while subjecting the few allowed to pass to horrors at the hands of the occupation forces and tracking dogs. Its aggression has even escalated to the point of daring to close Al-Aqsa, preventing worshippers from performing their prayers there during the blessed month of Ramadan and up to this day, and brutally passing the law to execute prisoners, which violates all human norms, while continuing to impose the crime of de facto annexation of the West Bank, unleashing its usurpers to wreak havoc on the land.
O our steadfast Palestinian people, O our great nation, O free people of the world, we in the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, in the face of all these major and rapid events, and the reality lived by our steadfast people, and our Arab and Islamic nation, affirm the following:
First, our mujahid people in Gaza, your legendary patience with tent life, displacement, poverty, and destitution, which followed legendary steadfastness in the face of genocide, will not go to waste, God willing. You have set an example for the sons of our nation, and written a lesson for them with your blood, and it has become clear to them that Goliath, armored with iron, allies, and armies, is defeatable once his armor falls off, and the young David gathers his stones together. Your stone was the cornerstone, and that fatal blow will not be far off, by the power of God alone. And they say, “When will it be?” Say, “Perhaps it will be soon.”
What the enemy is trying to pass today onto the Palestinian resistance and the people of Gaza through our brother mediators is extremely dangerous. The Palestinian side has fulfilled its obligations with all honesty and responsibility, considering the interests of our people, respecting the mediators’ efforts, and removing the pretext from the occupation’s hands. What is required today from our brothers, based on their religious and moral duty, is to pressure the entity to complete its obligations in the first phase before talking about the terms of the second phase, as well as holding the biased American administration to its responsibilities, since the enemy is the one obstructing the agreement, based on reports from the UN and international organizations. As for raising the issue of weapons in this crude manner, it is nothing but a blatant attempt by the occupation to continue the killing and genocide against our people, which we will not accept under any circumstances. We affirm that what the enemy could not extract from us with tanks and genocide, it will not extract from us through politics and at the negotiating table.
Second, the occupation’s aggression against our people, its continued closure of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque to worshippers in an unprecedented manner, and the passing of the law to execute Palestinian prisoners, is a mark of shame on the forehead of all those who are complacent and silent, and a mockery of this generation of Muslims, and of the two-billion-strong nation that has begun to stir like embers under the ashes, about to ignite.
O youth of Islam, the destination of your Prophet’s night journey groans as never before, and is about to be demolished if it finds no supporters. And your oppressed prisoners, free men and women, whose redemption our Lord has made obligatory on the entire nation, cry out to you with the chivalry of Al-Mu’tasim.
From this land that has offered all it has, and embraced the bodies of its sons in its depths for the sake of its Al-Aqsa, and broke the chains of thousands of our prisoners with its great sacrifices, we call on the masses of our Palestinian people in the valiant West Bank and blessed Al-Quds, and the occupied interior, to march towards the Al-Aqsa Mosque. We also urge the masses of our Islamic nation and the free people of the world to take to the streets and continue protest activities in public squares, and around the occupation’s embassies, in anger for Al-Aqsa and the prisoners. All the resistance forces of our nation, wherever they are, are called upon to make the Zionist enemy pay exorbitant prices for the crime of closing Al-Aqsa, and to strive by all possible means to liberate the prisoners. We also call on the youth of our people, the men of resistance, and our lone wolves in the West Bank, Al-Quds, and the occupied interior to rise up and carry out qualitative operations in defense of their sanctities and in pursuit of freeing their prisoners.
Show God the best of yourselves, for you have prayed to Him to use you in such a situation. And your chant on the path is the chant of Sa’d bin Mu’adh, may God be pleased with him, on the Day of the Trench: “Wait a little while, let Haml witness the battle, there is no harm in death when its appointed time comes.” And let the enemy know that harming Al-Aqsa and the prisoners will not pass without consequence, no matter the cost to our people, and it will have consequences for the occupying state. Rather, it will be an additional detonator for the entire region.
Third, the heinous crimes committed by the Zionist-American aggression against our brothers in the Islamic Republic, such as the Minab school massacre, remind the world of the genocide in Gaza. In this context, we mourn all the righteous martyrs of the Republic and its great leaders, led by the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, the great martyr Sayyed Ali Khamenei. We follow with great pride and honor the powerful strikes carried out by the Revolutionary Guards and the Iranian Armed Forces in the heart of the fleeting entity, God willing, in Tel Aviv, Arad, Dimona, Haifa, and others, in response to the Zionist-American aggression. We have seen how these strikes inflicted massive destruction on this fragile entity, and made it taste from the same cup it previously gave to the oppressed.
We also received with great pride and honor the message of the Islamic Republic addressed to our Palestinian people, through the words of the Mujahid brother Zulfiqar, spokesman for the Khatam al-Anbiya Headquarters, and the dedication of some operations to our great martyred leaders, such as Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, Sinwar, and Abu Obeida. We consider the strikes of the Mujahideen of Iran, Lebanon, and Yemen, and every pain inflicted on the Zionist enemy, an extension of the Al-Aqsa Flood, which was sparked by Gaza, and shattered the prestige of the enemy of the nation and all humanity, and a punishment for war criminals for the genocidal massacres they committed against our people. We look forward to this making a significant contribution to defeating the occupation and the fall of its fragile entity, God willing.
Fourth, the barbaric aggression against brotherly Lebanon is a full-fledged crime that comes in the context of the aggression against our nation and its vital forces. We declare our solidarity with Lebanon, its people, and its resistance, mourn its martyrs, and wish a speedy recovery to its wounded. We affirm our confidence in the determination and might of Hezbollah’s fierce fighters, who have inflicted heavy and humiliating losses on the Zionist enemy, after it delusionally thought that Lebanon and its resistance would be an easy prey. Peace be upon the heroes of the Lebanese resistance, and upon the soul of the martyred Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, whose sons are writing epics, proving his words with actions, and fulfilling his threat to the occupation: “You will have no tanks left.”
We renew our call to them to make the clash with the enemy a real opportunity to capture Zionist soldiers and complete the mission started by the Palestinian resistance in liberating Palestinian and Arab prisoners. We also send our greetings and gratitude to our beloved, the true brothers, Ansar Allah in Yemen, who rose to support Palestine and Gaza in the war of extermination, and today they renew their support and backing, declaring their solidarity with Palestine.
Greetings to every proud free person who supported our cause and the people of Gaza with whatever they could, like the brave people of Jordan, Iraq, and all the free people of the world. Here, we must send greetings to the masses who came out on the Friday of Prisoners and the Isra, in support of Palestine. Allow us to send a special jihadist greeting, crowned with pride and glory, to the beating heart of the Levant, the home of the Muslims’ camp, and the birthplace of our Sheikh Al-Qassam, to dear Syria, and its generous people, who have embraced the Palestinian resistance and refugees for decades, and today they are coming out across the country’s geography to declare their anger at the occupation’s crimes and affirm their solidarity with Palestine, its sanctities, and its prisoners. This is not a strange stance for those who shared suffering and pain with us, and a precious part of their land is still occupied by the Zionists. We are confident that a day will soon bring us together with them and all the free people of our nation in the courtyards of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque as victorious liberators.
In conclusion, the arrogance and rabid Zionist campaigns against the countries and peoples of our nation are a sign of the imminent collapse and fall of the enemy, for expansion precedes contraction, and arrogance precedes brokenness. We are certain that this aggression will not achieve its results, by brute force or otherwise. Likewise, the illusion of normalization they seek is doomed to fail. This region has always been the center of the world, the center of its basic resources, trade routes, and waterways, and only its sons will rule it and restore its glory. Its bounties and wealth are an inherent right for them alone, which no one will take away from them. “Greater Israel” will inevitably have no existence except in the illusions of the lost, cursed intruders.
However, this Zionist-American arrogance must sound the alarm bells for our nation, as they try to implement their plans on the remains of our children and the ruins of our countries, after subjugating them one by one. So beware of fragmentation, and being preoccupied with side battles designed by the nation’s enemies, while they strike the sources of strength of our united nation, and bring down its resistance forces that have long formed a barrier preventing this enemy from achieving its ambitions. “And hold firmly to the rope of Allah all together and do not become divided.”
And we say to those who delude themselves into imposing overseas ideologies and cultures on our nation: you do not truly know what legacy, civilization, and strength this nation possesses in its Quran and its faith, which we would sacrifice our blood and our most precious possessions to defend. You are merely chasing a mirage, and you will reap, God willing, nothing but ruin and punishment. Even if the balance of power shifts, our truth is stronger than their falsehood. Our nation is one, its enemy is one.
“But those who disbelieved—their deeds are like a mirage in a lowland which a thirsty one thinks is water until, when he comes to it, he finds it is nothing but finds Allah before Him, and He will pay him in full his due; and Allah is swift in account. And Allah is predominant over His affair, but most of the people do not know.”
It is a jihad of victory or martyrdom. Peace, mercy, and blessings of God be upon you.
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