In #Nablus, the fathers of the martyrs demonstrated against the Palestinian Authority's detainment of them at the Beit Iba checkpoint to prevent them from attending the victory festival for the martyrs of #Jenin a few days ago.

The father of martyred Lions' Den commander Wadie Al-Houh: "We condemn the way in which the fathers of the martyrs were treated. We were headed to a Palestinian celebration, for all Palestinians who dream that their sons ascend as martyrs. The PA Security Forces, who we consider our brothers, stopped us on the way with checkpoints and ambushes in every place. They asked us for our IDs! Why IDs? Are you capturing a gang of thieves? You know us, Abu Wadie, Abu Tamer Al-Kilani, Abu Mishal Al-Baghdadi—we are all fathers of martyrs, not a gang of thieves. We tell you, this behavior is not right...because our sons are beacons for the entire Arab nation.

Our sons raised peaks, and they raised heads. One no longer feels safe with his brother, because these people sold their consciences. They sit in high chairs that they don't deserve."

The father of martyred Lions' Den commander Tamer Al-Kilani said: "We would be honored to attend the festival. They detained us for an hour and 25 minutes exactly. Every time we asked them, 'Where are our IDs?,' they would [repeat], 'Wait a little. These are orders.' Who gave you these orders? We are known in the homeland. We are all fathers of martyrs, not criminals or thieves. They shouldn't stop us at any checkpoint. And this is not the first time they did this, but the second.

"After being detained...we told them we don't want the IDs. We left, and as we got about 300-400 meters away from the checkpoint when they confirmed our departure, they gave our IDs to Abu Wadie...and they packed up and left. That means that this whole thing was intended for us exclusively! Why does the PA treat us this way?

"We offered the best of men. What does the PA want from us? It is like they are slapping us waiting for the final slap. They want to arrest us? Come, arrest us officially. If we did anything, come arrest us. We are the ones who sacrificed, and they did not. We offered the best of men, the best of our children; and what did they offer?! We are the sons of your people, and you are the sons of ours. So, where are you getting orders from? I mean, are we prohibited from moving?"

The father of martyr Mohammed Al-Dabeek: "They left us in the sun. They made us depart from the bus. We left them with our IDs, with our Palestinian IDs, because of how they treat the families of the martyrs... They kept searching the IDs with different devices. What do you mean you are taking my ID as the father of a martyr? And taking it from intelligence to police to preventative services to national security?! We don't want this to repeat, for us, for our children. We object to the arrests of the families of martyrs or freed prisoners to continue."

The father of martyred commander Ibrahim Al-Nabulsi, who attended, said: "We went to the festival, anticipating the arrival of the families of Nablus martyrs. For us, Jenin, and the entire homeland: their martyrs are our martyrs, and their pain is our pain. So we went to attend to express that our concerns, blood, and wounds are the same; our children sacrificed their lives and themselves to defend the journey of Allah's prophet (Al-Aqsa) and to bless our people with freedom and independence... We were surprised, after several calls, that the families of the martyrs were detained at Beit Iba checkpoint.

"It is not the first time. Before this, we were called by President [Abbas] to an honoring on Martyrs' Day. We headed to Ramallah based on this invitation from the President, and we were surprised that, unfortunately, the PA Forces detained four buses in the governate. The sons of the Security Services are our sons, and yet I tell the decision makers who lead these officers that what is happening is forbidden. What is happening is a shame. These are red lines that you cannot cross, and we will not be silent. I demand from the President to form an investigative committee to look into this issue."

The father of martyred Lions' Den commander Tamer Al-Kilani added: "We offered the best of our youth for the homeland. We don't want the heads of the PA to console us when we have a mourning home then to show us us a different face, telling us, 'These are orders!' What orders?... We are going to a memorial ceremony for the martyrs. Just like the families of Jenin console us, we are going to console them and stand with them, just as we would stand with the martyrs of any governate of the homeland."

🚨 BREAKING: IOF special forces have been discovered in the Al-Yasmina neighborhood of #Nablus. Intense clashes are currently taking place as the occupation army sends in reinforcements.

🟡 Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade - Nablus Brigade:
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Our valiant fighters are in the midst of an armed clash with a special zionist force after its discovery.

[Our fighters] have opened fire on the invading occupation forces now.

⚫️ Saraya Al-Quds - Nablus Brigade:
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Our fighters are targeting the special occupation forces and military reinforcements in Al-Yasmina neighborhood with heavy and successive barrages of bullets.

🟡 Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades - Askar Brigade (Al-Tariq Groups):
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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
“O you who believe, if you help Allah, He will help you and make your feet firm.”

Our soldiers and fighters in the Askar Brigade, Al-Tariq Groups, are now responding to the occupation forces' storming of the old city of Nablus with their fighting brothers. Your takbeers and your calls for victory [are requested].

Your brothers, Askar Brigade (Al-Tariq Groups).

⚫️ Saraya Al-Quds - Nablus Brigade:
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Our fighters are targeting the occupation forces inside the Old City with heavy and successive salvoes of bullets.

⚫️ Saraya Al-Quds - Qabatiya Groups:
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Our fighters managed at dawn today to target the occupation vehicles with heavy bullets during their storming of the town.

The IOF has fully withdrawn from #Nablus after arresting the wounded Akrama Al-Khammash, after raiding his house in Al-Yasmina neighborhood.

⚫️ Saraya Al-Quds - Qabatiya Groups:
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Our fighters continue to target the occupation vehicles storming the town with heavy shells of bullets and explosive devices.

⚫️ Saraya Al-Quds - Qabatiya Groups:
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Our fighters are targeting the occupation vehicles on Jabal Zakarneh with heavy barrages of bullets.

Footage from the intense armed clashes that took place at dawn in Qabatiya, #Jenin.

⚫️ Saraya Al-Quds - West Bank:
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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

“Fight them; Allah will punish them by your hands, disgrace them, grant you victory over them, and heal the hearts of a believing people.”

With the help, strength, and guidance of Allah, our heroic fighters in the Qabatiya groups successfully confronted the occupation forces and their vehicles that invaded the town, with intense barrages of bullets and explosive devices.

The Brigade’s soldiers engaged in fierce and extensive clashes on multiple fronts within the town, during which our fighters were able to detonate several explosive devices and set up ambushes for zionist vehicles.

Furthermore, our fighters in the Nablus Brigade discovered a special zionist force that had infiltrated Al-Yasmina neighborhood in the Old City of Nablus. They engaged in intense clashes with them, raining heavy barrages of bullets upon them.

We in Saraya Al-Quds, affirm that all our military formations in the occupied West Bank are ready to confront the zionist foolishness that the enemy threatens our steadfast people with. We will remain the protective shield for our people.

Your victorious Brigades, in all their formations across the occupied West Bank, will remain loyal to the martyrs and leaders. They are prepared to defend our people and inflict losses upon the enemy on all fronts. The enemy will witness the various forms of death that our fighters have prepared, which will be a source of regret for its soldiers and settlers.

Our jihad is ongoing and our weapons are legitimate in all arenas.

Indeed, it is a jihad of victory or martyrdom.

The Brigades and Groups of Saraya Al-Quds in the West Bank.

24/8/2023.

🟢 Izz El-Din Al-Qassam Brigades:
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“And do not think of those who have been killed in the cause of Allah as dead. Rather, they are alive with their Lord, receiving provision.”

Al-Qassam Brigades announces the martyrdom of the Qassami fighter, Ashraf Abdul Karim Hussein, who ascended to martyrdom due to an accidental explosion.

With complete faith in the decree and destiny of Allah, with the strength of the believers who are confident in the victory and relief from Allah, and with the pride of the fighters who firmly hold onto the torches of religion and homeland, guarding the beloved homeland's frontiers, considering their work, jihad, life, and death solely for the sake of Allah, the Lord of all worlds.

Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, proudly announces the ascension of the martyr, a knight of its brave knights:

The Qassami fighter: Ashraf Abdul Karim Hussein
(35 years old) from Al-Ribat Mosque in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip.

He ascended to martyrdom on Thursday, 8th Safar 1445 AH, corresponding to 24th August 2023, due to an accidental explosion. He departed to his Lord after a blessed life filled with dedication, jihad, sacrifice, and steadfastness in the path of Allah. We consider him among the righteous and pure martyrs, and we do not elevate anyone above Allah.

We ask Allah to accept him among the martyrs, to grant him a place in the spacious gardens of Paradise, and to bestow beautiful patience and solace upon his family. Surely, we belong to Allah, and to Him, we shall return.

Indeed, it is a jihad of victory or martyrdom.

Izz El-Din Al-Qassam Brigades - Palestine
Thursday, 8th Safar 1445 AH
Corresponding to 24th August 2023.

The occupation courts extended the detention of PIJ leader Maher Al-Akhras by a week, setting his court date for Wednesday. He continues his hunger strike for the second day.

Zionist sources announced the arrest of four Palestinians in occupied Lydd and Kafr Qassem in '48 Palestine who were allegedly in contact with Hezbollah and had received a number of advanced Iranian-made explosives from them.

For several years, Hezbollah has worked to increase the number of weapons inside the occupied interior, awaiting the day of the uprising as well as to transfer to West Bank resistance groups. The type of explosives found with the group resembles the type used in March's "Megiddo" operation, which Hezbollah was accused of facilitating in coordination with Palestinian resistance groups.

In defiance of normalization, resisting youth in Aida camp, #Bethlehem expelled a group of visiting American students belonging to the zionist organization Hillel at UC Davis.

The youth of the camp also smashed the bus, which was escorted by Palestinian Authority Security Forces. #NoToNormalization

🚨 A large fire broke out in the "Jabot" IOF camp, which is located on the lands of the town of Nahalin in #Bethlehem after being targeted with Molotov cocktails by Palestinian youth.

🟢 Amid assassination threats, the Deputy Head of the Political Bureau of Hamas, Sheikh Saleh Al-Arouri, gave an interview on Al-Aqsa Channel today:
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"We are all part of one organization named the Palestinian people. This is our organization for which all factions and the people work."

"Either we drive them out, or they drive us out, and we will drive them out by the will of Allah."

"Does the occupation expect that after its assassination threats, we will declare surrender?! These threats don't scare us, and as the Palestinian people, we have no options; hence, we will not stop resisting."

"O sons and daughters of our people, escalate the resistance to a level that holds the entire world accountable. My message to the youth of the West Bank, rise up and fight. With anything your hand reaches, resist."

Read the full highlights on Medium at the link: https://medium.com/@resistancenewsnetwork/interview-with-hamas-leader-saleh-al-arouri-d5096cec8461

🟢 Amid assassination threats, the Deputy Head of the Political Bureau of Hamas, Sheikh Saleh Al-Arouri, gave an interview on Al-Aqsa Channel today (1/4):
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We will not surrender, and our people do not intend to surrender. They have never before discussed the idea of surrender. We are a people who have not succumbed to their fate and accepted what this occupation imposes on them.

The occupation wants to uproot our people from our land, our history, our present, our future, and our holy places, and plant in its place this falsehood they brought from all corners of the world. That's why we have no intention of surrendering, nor any intention of compromising.

This zionist government says you either accept being our slaves, or we will uproot you from this land. We say to them: as long as this war is of an eradication nature, the newcomers, the invaders, and the scattered ones coming from everywhere in the world are the ones who will be uprooted and will go, just as it happened with other invaders and colonizers. This people will remain.

It is very natural for our people to return to their resistance time and again. This resistance has been ongoing since the inception of the zionist project. It is true that the resistance comes in waves, sometimes rising and sometimes declining due to the severity of oppression, siege, conspiracies, and some illusions that some are convinced of, like the illusions of peace.

The collective consciousness, the subconscious, and the constants of our people return time and again to the true path of dealing with the occupiers, which is resistance. Thus, all the bets and all attempts to create the new Palestinian and intensifying oppression, persecution, displacement, house demolitions, and killing are futile.

Now, the West Bank returns to its recurrent pages of glory, and our people are united in the West Bank, Gaza, the interior, and the diaspora, holding firmly to their right and their thawabet, always ready to face challenges with resistance in order to assert their rights, defend their holy sites, their past, present, and future.

Our people always have the ability to surprise the occupation, and among these surprises is the escalation of resistance in the West Bank in the face of unprecedented challenges.

It's the occupation that caused the escalation of this resistance by escalating unprecedented actions against our people, our holy sites, and through settlement.

The Hamas movement is a part of this people and at the heart of the resistance. We do not disavow or shy away from resistance. Thus, we are present in the resistance, and we do not allow ourselves to be absent from our people's resistance.

In the Hamas movement, we strive to be at the heart and weight of the resistance. We don't consider this an accusation but rather an honor for us and our duty to be at the forefront of those defending our people, our land, and our holy sites.

Organized movements like Hamas always prepare and work towards launching resistance. However, when the confrontation turns into a comprehensive popular resistance, it's due to the occupation and its measures which push all members of our nation to engage in resistance.

I am more optimistic when there are individual acts of resistance from people who aren't part of any organization because we are all part of one organization named the Palestinian people. This is our organization for which all factions and the people work.

The occupation imposed on all members of our nation to engage in resistance when it publicly declared its plans. The zionist government stated that it is working on a settlement control in the West Bank, a control that's irrevocable, and will Judaize Al-Quds and take over the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

The zionist government made settlement decisions and put all the tools in the hands of the finance minister, Smotrich, who is the most extreme and insane person. He says that during the remaining term of this government, he will transfer at least one million settlers to the West Bank.

🟢 Amid assassination threats, the Deputy Head of the Political Bureau of Hamas, Sheikh Saleh Al-Arouri, gave an interview on Al-Aqsa Channel today (2/4):
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The occupation and its government made decisions, utilized tools, and created organizational and legal structures to accomplish their plans of controlling the West Bank, Al-Quds, and the Al-Aqsa Mosque through millions of settlers. Thus, they imposed on us the battle of confronting the settlement and occupation.

Hamas's stances are clear: as a Palestinian people, we must engage in our battle against the settlements. Until now, Hamas focuses its operations against the settlements because it's the heart of the occupation, and it's the most dangerous face of the occupation.

We, as a people, are capable of confronting the occupation. Every day we delay in igniting a comprehensive battle against settler colonialism in the West Bank, we will face this battle in harder and worse conditions.

Smotrich was on a visit to France and presented during a press conference there a map of Palestine and Jordan. According to the decisive plan he and the entire zionist right adopt, Jordan is the homeland of the Palestinians, and historical Palestine remains entirely for them without a Palestinian people.

Instead of confronting this project after they've occupied the West Bank with millions of settlers and prepared all the reasons, we should confront them now. We have the opportunity, given their internal division and the global division and an unprecedented negative stance against this government due to its extremism and its violations of all international laws and norms. We have the chance to engage in our battle against the settlements and win it.

We have the opportunity to remove the occupation and the settlements from the West Bank instead of them removing us from it. There's no escape from a comprehensive battle in the West Bank. Either we drive them out, or they drive us out, and we will drive them out by the will of Allah.

In Hamas, we first planned to show our people, our nation, and the world the danger of this government and its overt, exposed schemes aiming at destroying our people, displacing them, and taking full control over the West Bank. We want to reinforce, push, and provide everything necessary, and to be at the forefront in resisting the settlement project in the West Bank, just as we drove them out of Gaza.

The threat of assassinating the leaders of Hamas is not new to the occupation. Their project began with massacres, killings, displacement, and torture. Indeed, they assassinate martyrs from our people every day. And we, in Hamas, are part of this people.

We in Hamas are part of this people, and thus we get martyred like our people, we get arrested as they get arrested, our homes get demolished, and we are pursued and hunted. This is the unfortunate normal situation under the occupation. But also, we resist, chase, and fight because we are in the right.

We do not fear the threats of the occupation, and I feel that I have exceeded my default life, and martyrdom is welcome when it comes like the rest of those who preceded us, and Muhammad Al-Deif was threatened with assassination, but he will enter Al-Quds, Allah willing, with the occupation in the dustbins of history.

Does the occupation expect that after its assassination threats, we will declare surrender?! These threats don't scare us, and as the Palestinian people, we have no options; hence, we will not stop resisting.

Once, a defense minister named Lieberman came and said, "I will cut off Ismail Haniyeh's head." Now he's in the dustbin of history, while Ismail Haniyeh still serves our people's cause. Similarly, they tried to kill the leader, Mohammed Deif. Allah willing, he will enter Al-Quds, and they will be the ones out of history.

🟢 Amid assassination threats, the Deputy Head of the Political Bureau of Hamas, Sheikh Saleh Al-Arouri, gave an interview on Al-Aqsa Channel today (3/4):
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My message to our people in the West Bank is that this occupation and this government have left us no choice but to fight. No one has an excuse to refrain from participating in this battle. I neither think nor believe that any youth among our people would accept bearing this shame in their history and conscience.

The occupation wants to demolish Al-Aqsa, build the temple, Judaize Al-Quds, uproot our people from the West Bank, and falsify our entire history. Therefore, it's incumbent upon each one of us to have a role in resisting the occupation in the West Bank. I focus on the West Bank because it is the heart of the battle right now.

Every Palestinian, every free and honorable Arab and Muslim, should contribute to this battle. This is the battle to liberate Al-Aqsa, to defend it and to prevent its Judaization.

The number of youths clashing with the occupation in the West Bank is limited. Yet, this occupier can't sleep at night. They are in a constant state of tension, holding endless meetings, and are in confusion and distress. As a result, the personal security of the settlers is lost, and the government's attempt to bring millions of settlers becomes much more difficult day by day.

Instead of a thousand youths participating in the resistance, a hundred thousand should participate, and a million should participate. Then, the occupation will depart, they will be defeated, and they will destroy their houses with their own hands and with the hands of the resistance fighters.

O sons and daughters of our people... The settlements in the West Bank are illegal in the eyes of international law, the United Nations, the US, and the entire world. Therefore, your fight is legitimate and legal in every sense and at all levels. You are not terrorists in the eyes of the United Nations. You are defending your land that the occupation is trying to steal from you.

O sons and daughters of our people, escalate the resistance to a level that holds the entire world accountable. You will find that the world will stand with us when they see our determination for our right and our readiness to face all challenges to achieve our rights.

My message to the youth of the West Bank, rise up and fight. I know that the Palestinian people in the West Bank have more weapons than the settlers. It's forbidden to neutralize these weapons when settlers attack Palestinians in Turmusa'ya, Huwara, or villages in the Jordan Valley and in Yatta.

Smotrich and Ben-Gvir are not allowed to reside in the West Bank. The settlements are prohibited to be here. Hence, everyone should contribute in some way. Throw a stone or a Molotov cocktail, with a pistol or a homemade rifle; with anything your hand reaches, resist.

The resistance is centered in the north. They had to mobilize most of their ground army in the West Bank because the proliferation and spread of the settlements have become a burden on them. They need 25 to 30 battalions of their army to guard them. Imagine if the resistance spread across the entire West Bank.

Now Al-Khalil has started to be hit, and the army is beginning to mobilize again in the south, so we must fight them throughout the West Bank until the occupation realizes that this endeavor is a losing one.

I heard a comment from one of the leaders of this zionist government saying that killing a mother in front of her daughter is something that cannot be ignored. I ask: does this apply to us as Palestinians as well? Don't we have sanctity or feelings when a mother is killed with her daughter, when a daughter is killed in front of her family, when children are killed in front of their mother?

Our people have options in responding to the aggression, and the days will reveal to you what you were ignorant of, and bring you news you weren't expecting.

Any aggression on Al-Aqsa Mosque with the intention of controlling it and changing its current status will be met with a regional battle.