UN Watch

@unwatch · Twitter · 2024-10-01 14:30 UTC

🚨 BREAKING: Hamas-run TV channel eulogizes Fathi al-Sharif, slain chief of the UNRWA Teachers Union in Lebanon, confirming he was the “leader of Hamas in Lebanon,” and “fought as a martyr in the Battle of the Blessed Al-Aqsa Flood.” “You were a successful teacher and a spectacular principal.” TRANSCRIPT: Sharif: “If you believe that we will submit to you, or surrender to you, you are delusional.” Hamas: “In a cowardly and treacherous Zionist strike, planes assassinated the brave mujahid leader, Fathi Sharif Abu al-Amin, the leader of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in Lebanon and a member of the movement’s leadership abroad.” “Early this morning, the leader, Abu al-Amin, joined the ranks of the noble martyr mujahiddin leaders and the heroes of the resistance, who passed away to be at the side of Allah and in His pleasure, following an airstrike that targeted him and his family in his home in the Al-Buss Refugee Camp, near the city of Tyre, in southern Lebanon.“ “The leader, Abu al-Amin, played an important role in the movement’s leadership in Lebanon, and an active role in support of the Palestinian resistance in its battle against the Zionist occupation.” “He led a quest full of work and Jihad in the service of the Palestinian people, its legitimate struggle, and its just cause.” “The leader was an unceasing flame of activity and vitality, brave and daring, a steadfast pillar of work on behalf of the national cause, charity, education and Jihad.” “The Islamic Resistance Movement - Hamas announced to the Palestinian masses and to the Arab and Islamic nations that the leader, Abu al-Amin, has been martyred on the path to Jerusalem, and against the backdrop of the War of Al-Aqsa Flood, as was his wife, the martyred educator, Umayya Ibrahim Abdul Hamid, and his martyred son, Amin Fatah Sharif, and his martyred daughter, Wafa Fatah Sharif.” “In its announcement, the movement stated that the brother and leader, fought as a martyr in the Battle of the Blessed Al-Aqsa Flood, in the path of the martyred leaders of our movement and our martyred nation, and added: “You excelled as an educator. You were a successful teacher and a spectacular principal. The school that you administered was always at the forefront of the distinguished schools which produced generations of Palestinian refugee graduates in Lebanon.” “So, the occupation believes that by assassinating the leaders, it will be able to score victories, but each time, it forgets that the resistance is an idea, that ideas don't die, and that the martyrdom of our leaders will only boost the resolve of our mujahiddin to continue in the path of resistance and liberation and in the path of their leaders with full determination and resolve, until the end, and until victory.”