Press Release
Minister of Interior Ziad Hab Al-Reeh Speaks on Behalf of the Wrongdoers!
(Translated)

The Minister of Interior of the Palestinian Authority, Ziyad Hab Al-Reeh, along with the Governor of Hebron and security apparatus leaders, held a meeting in Hebron on Wednesday, September 11, 2024. The meeting was filled with deceit and hostility toward the resilience and struggle of the people of Palestine. In his speech, the Minister stated that he wanted to avoid bloodshed and would not allow a repeat of what happened in Gaza. He further emphasized: "We will work with all the power at our disposal to remove the justifications!"

So, what are these justifications he wants to eliminate? How will he prevent the wronged from doing what was done in Gaza and the northern West Bank? Did the criminal entity need any justification when it occupied Palestine in 1948, slaughtered its people, wiped out entire villages, and displaced its inhabitants? Or did it wait for treachery and a pre-arranged surrender?

Did it also need a justification to occupy the remaining lands of Palestine in 1967, or did it occupy them amid betrayal and withdrawals? Moreover, it disarmed the people just as the Palestinian Authority is doing now. When it began confiscating land and building settlements, did it need any justification, or was it relying on a Palestinian Authority (PA) that had already conceded most of Palestine?

Did the criminal entity really need an excuse when it began demolishing homes and burning villages in the north and south? Was it as though it had no plan for displacement or intentions of genocide? Did the PA’s concession of most of Palestine prevent the entity from continuing its crimes, even though it gained nothing from these concessions, security coordination, and its war on the Palestinian people, except illusions, mirages, and a few petty privileges for its officials? Is there any greater justification for the enemy than finding some of our own people who justify its crimes, blame the oppressed for their plight, and side with the criminal in its wrongdoing?

And what have the Palestinian Authority's security forces done to protect the people and their rights? Or is their primary mission to pursue and arrest the mujahideen?

Instead of using the security forces’ weapons to defend and protect the people, they abandoned them when their blood was being shed bythe settler militias. They did nothing while people were being abused and their villages attacked by armed settlers. Rather than protecting the people, the Authority has become a third party in a trinity alongside the entity, its army, and its armed settlers, all of whom are persecuting the Palestinian people in an effort to displace them.

O People of the Blessed Land: There is a coordinated campaign to hunt down the mujahideen for the sake of Allah and blame them for the destruction and bloodshed. By Allah, this is a great slander. Aren't the agent regimes that bind the Ummah and its armies the ones who provide cover for the crimes of the wrongdoers? Aren't the rulers of Egypt, Jordan, the Gulf, and Turkey the ones who sustain the Jewish entity? Aren't these agents partners in killing us, destroying our homes, and murdering our women and children?

We know that the Palestinian Authority and its apparatuses have been cloaked in treason, chasing after the mirage of promises made to them by those who have evoked [Your] anger (Jews). However, to name this treason and this crime in the name of the people of Palestine, this will never be. None of us stand with the enemy; rather, whoever stands with the enemy is part of them. And Allah(swt) spoke the truth.

[أَلَمْ تَرَ إِلَى الَّذِينَ تَوَلَّوْا قَوْمًا غَضِبَ اللهُ عَلَيْهِمْ مَا هُمْ مِنْكُمْ وَلَا مِنْهُمْ وَيَحْلِفُونَ ‌عَلَى ‌الْكَذِبِ وَهُمْ يَعْلَمُونَ * أَعَدَّ اللهُ لَهُمْ عَذَابًا شَدِيدًا إِنَّهُمْ سَاءَ مَا كَانُوا يَعْمَلُونَ]

“Have you not considered those who make allies of a people with whom Allah has become angry? They are neither of you nor of them, and they swear to untruth while they know [they are lying].,Allah has prepared for them a severe punishment. Indeed, it was evil that they were doing.”[Al-Mujadila:14-5].

Palestine, with its men, tribes, women, and even its infants, disowns those who persist in betraying Allah, His Messenger, and the people of Palestine and their mujahideen. Those who have branded themselves with the shame of treason and allegiance to the Jewish will not escape their crime. They will stand in the court of the people of Palestine and the entire Ummah, and then before the court of Allah, where all disputes will be settled. There, they will face the disgrace in this life and the Hereafter that they deserve.

And indeed, Palestine has men from the Ummah of Muhammad (saw) who will liberate it, just as Salahuddin liberated it, and with that liberation, all filth, impurity, and worthless remnants will be purged.

[إِنَّ فِي ذَلِكَ لَذِكْرَى لِمَنْ كَانَ لَهُ قَلْبٌ أَوْ أَلْقَى السَّمْعَ ‌وَهُوَ ‌شَهِيدٌ]

“Indeed in that is a reminder for whoever has a heart or who listens while he is present [in mind].”[Surat Qaf:37]

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in the Blessed Land – Palestine