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Dec 12, 2022
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Rajaa Al-Halabi, Head Of Hamas Women's Movement: A Martyrdom-Seeking Girl Has Only One Thing On Her Mind – To Meet Her Lord Through Her Blood, Body Parts; Children In Gaza Are Raised To Love Jihad From Infancy

#9998 | 01:48
Source: Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas/Gaza)

Rajaa Al-Halabi, the head of the Hamas Women's Movement, said in a December 12, 2022 interview on Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas-Gaza) that a girl who sets out to be a "martyrdom-seeker" has "only one thing on her mind – to meet her Lord by means of her blood and her body parts." She said that any woman in Hamas would be a "martyrdom-seeker" if she had the opportunity. Al-Halabi further said that the teachers in Gaza's kindergarten, the majority of whom belong to Hamas, raise the children to love Jihad from infancy. For more about Rajaa Al-Halabi, see MEMRI TV Clips Nos. 9252, 8150, and 7800.

Rajaa Al-Halabi: "Let me begin by saying that the word 'martyrdom-seeker' means that when a girl sets out, she has only one thing on her mind — to meet her Lord by means of her blood and her body parts.

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"If anyone among the women of Hamas had the opportunity to be martyrdom-seekers — not a single one of them would back down.

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"Many women wish to be in the place of martyrdom-seekers, or together with them.

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"Most kindergartens [in Gaza] belong to our sisters in Hamas. Children are raised from a young age on this culture — 'Allah is our goal,' '[jihad] for the sake of Allah...' From infancy, children are nurtured to love jihad, to want to meet Allah, and to love fighting the enemy.

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"It is no surprise that women set out [to blow themselves up], leaving their children behind, because they know that even if they would raise their children, they would raise them for these moments — to be martyrdom-seekers for the sake of Allah. I am talking to you as a mother. If a woman is given a choice to either go first or have her son go first — of course she would offer both herself and her son, but if she had to choose — she would choose to be the martyrdom-seeker herself."

 

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