Senior Islamic Jihad official Khalil Al-Bahtini: “What we were educated on, and [what] our culture is, is that
whoever lives on this land and does not merit Martyrdom, he has lost out. Allah has honored us in this land with
Ribat (i.e., religious conflict over land claimed to be Islamic) and
Jihad, and
we have no role in this blessed land other than Jihad.It is our honor, all the honor, that we are fighting against Israel, this thieving entity, and that we are educating our sons to hate this entity.It is our honor that we are continuing with all our days, efforts, and intentions to blow up all of this Zionist entity’s cities. Thus we will record in history that the resistance fighters of Palestine, and the resistance fighters of the Gaza Strip, were like a thorn in the throat of this entity, and that
they did not negotiate and did not renounce a [single] grain of soil of this land.”
[Fatah Movement – Bethlehem Branch, Telegram channel, May 9, 2023]