Following are excerpts from a public address delivered by former Hamas Interior Minister Fathi Hammad, which aired on Al-Jazeera Network on October 31, 2014:
Fathi Hammad: We say to the brothers of apes and pigs: No matter how much you destroy, dig, and try to build settlements around the Al-Aqsa Mosque, we are coming to uproot you, to annihilate you, and to destroy you.
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The hypocrites will find themselves in the lowest level of Hellfire. Whoever shackles his people and their resistance, whoever shackles the AK-47s, will be trampled under the feet of our people in this world, and will find himself in the lowest level of Hellfire in the world to come.
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