Hamas, leader says Palestinian martyrs’ blood has a very high price, describing it as a fuel for the al Quds (Jerusalem) Intifada.
Ismail Haniya, Deputy chief of Hamas Politburo made the
remarks remarks came in a phone call with the family of Tharwat Ibrahim
Sharawi, 75, who was killed earlier Friday by Israeli troops.
A statement by Haniya’s office on Saturday said during phone conversation, the
Hamas senior Hamas official expressed condolences to Ahlam Sharawi the
daughter of the elderly victim.
Haniya asserted reiterated that, “martyrs’ blood has a very high price,
and it will not go in vain but rather will serve as the fuel for the Intifada
(uprising).”
For her part, Ahlam Sharawi expressed gratitude over Haniya for the phone
call.
Sharawi was critically injured in the Israeli gunfire and that she succumbed to her wounds shortly after arrival in hospital. Eyewitnesses said that the elderly woman was driving a Hyundai car towards a petrol station when the Israeli troops opened heavy fire at the vehicle fatally wounding her.
Meanwhile the senior Hamas official congratulated ex-prisoner Mohamed Allan, in another phone call, for regaining freedom from the notorious Israeli regime jails.
Allan was arrested by Israeli regime forces in November 2014 and held under a measure known as administrative detention, which allows imprisonment without trial for six-month periods renewable indefinitely.
In June, he began a two-month hunger strike that brought him close to death and heightened tensions in the occupied West Bank.
Islamic Jihad Resistance Movement says the 31-year-old lawyer from Einabus, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, is a member.
