Speech by Abu Obeida, spokesman for Hamas’s Al-Qassam Brigades, November 4, 2023.

Source: Al-Jazeera

Translation: resistancenews.org

In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.

“Fight them. God, through your hands, will chastise them, cover them with ignominy, give you victory over them and heal the hearts of a believing people.” [Quran, IX, 14]

Praise be to God, who grants victory to the (sincere) fighters and humbles the arrogant, and may God’s peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of God, fighter and martyr, upon his family and companions, and upon all those who fought in his path.

O children of our majestic people, who stand tall in the face of a savage Nazi aggression and barbaric, atrocious genocide, full of faith, endurance and strength, O our Arab and Islamic Community, may God’s peace be upon you, as well as His Mercy and Blessings.

We address you again today from the heart of the battle of the “Al-Aqsa Flood” on its 29th day, to pay our respects to our people who are being subjected to methodical extermination by an enemy who concentrates his strikes on the innocent, faithful in this to its lineage of assassins of Prophets, an enemy that does not fear punishment for its acts on behalf of a world governed by the law of the jungle, and has therefore flouted all human morality and all international laws. The collective punishment he imposes on our people in order to inflict upon Gaza the greatest trauma, the greatest suffering, and to pour out tears and blood, he pays it every moment by facing our fighters on the ground since October 7.

“Do not falter, nor be pained, for you will be the ultimate victors, if you are believers. If you are wounded, so is the enemy. Thus do We make the days (good and bad) alternate among people, so that God may recognize those who have faith, and that He may choose martyrs from among you. And God loves not the oppressors.” [Quran, III, 139-140]

Our fighters continue unceasingly, by the Grace of God, to fight on the enemy’s axes of advance, in the north-west of Gaza City, in the south of Gaza City, in Beit Hanoun, in the north-east of the Gaza Strip. They are fighting with heroism and courage, and continue to attack the enemy’s tanks and destroy them. Over the past 48 hours, we have documented the total or partial destruction by our fighters of 24 military vehicles, including tanks, personnel carriers and bulldozers.

We destroy them with anti-tank weapons, especially “Al-Yassine 105” missiles, and explosive charges from the acts of fedayeen ready to sacrifice themselves by literally laying them on enemy tanks, springing up from underground and from the air, and smashing into incursing or stationed Zionist forces. Our fighters ambush them and hit them at point-blank range, just as we are hitting them from afar with anti-tank missiles in the southern axis of Gaza City tonight.

Over the past two days, we have brought into the confrontation the locally-made Al-Yassin TBG armor-piercing missiles, which have hit Zionist forces entrenched in apartments and houses. We caused proven losses against these forces, with God’s help. Despite the scale of the enemy’s ground maneuvering, with advances and retreats along the various axes, our fighters continue to carry out rear-attacks against the invading forces, and to strike directly at their troop and armor concentrations in hand-to-hand combat. Similarly, our snipers are carrying out precise operations against soldiers amassed in buildings, or those who dare to stick their heads out of tanks, and our mortars continue relentlessly to pound troop and vehicle concentrations.

Extract from Abu Obeida’s speech on November 2: “I declare to the Zionist people: your leaders, who lied to you about the extent of the losses we inflicted on the Gaza Brigade on October 7, who lied to you in their analysis that we would not launch an offensive for many years, who lied to you about the hostages and killed dozens of them in their strikes against Gaza, having resolved to return them to you in shrouds, are still lying to you today about the number of your soldiers killed in Gaza, in the battles we are waging on dozens of confrontation points. We assure you that the death toll is far higher than your leaders claim, so expect many more of your soldiers to be returned to you in black body bags. The Tiger armored personnel carrier, which the enemy claims to be the most secure in the world, was destroyed in its first test against our missiles, explosives and the courage of our mujahideen, after God’s help and rescue. […] We feel pride and glory when we hear the enemy’s leaders boast of having pierced our defensive lines here or there, as if they were boasting of having pierced the defensive lines of a great State power. And the truth is, they’ve only broken through a street or alley in Gaza, after dumping tons of bombs on it, or entered a deserted area after scorching it with air strikes. And despite all this, our mujahideen continue to come out of the woodwork and surprise them. The Prophet, peace and blessings of God be upon him, spoke the truth when he said: “There will always remain a part of my Community that will defend the true, crush its enemies, and not suffer from the treachery of those who abandon them.”

O children of our people and our Arab-Muslim Community, O free men of the world. It is common knowledge that we are fighting an unequal battle, but it will be studied in (the military academies of) the whole world, and will be etched forever in history, like the battle of David against Goliath, which saw the victory of the shining truth against arrogant falsehood. Everything we have already published, and will continue to publish in the minutes and hours to come, in the way of videos showing the destruction and ambush of enemy troops, and the confrontation of their tanks, even our fighters climbing on top of them, will provide sufficient insight into the fighting spirit of our mujahideen, their heroic struggle and their blessed operations on the ground, with the Grace of God the Most High.

In conclusion, we declare to the enemy that if he thinks that by perpetrating atrocious massacres and taking despicable measures against our people, he will make us back down, he is deluding himself and is even stupid. Let him reconsider our past and our present, and he will realize that our suffering will explode in his face in a deluge of anger and fire, and that from the destruction he sows, he will reap only failure, defeat and humiliation.

Glory and homage to our innocent martyrs, healing to its inflexible wounded, freedom to our heroic prisoners, and greetings to our heroic people ready for all sacrifices wherever they may be.

“And God is the Sovereign of the Order of things, but most people do not know.” [Quran, XII, 21]

We are waging a jihad whose outcome can only be victory or martyrdom.

May God’s peace be upon you, as well as His Mercy and Blessings.

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