Mick Hartley

From MEMRI TV:

In a Friday sermon delivered in the Gaza Strip, during the February 7, 2025 funeral of Hamas military commander Marwan Issa, who was reportedly killed in March 2024, the imam addressed the crowd and told them: "You […] love martyrdom for the sake of Allah. You love to kill for the sake of Allah." He added that the resistance fighters could not have waged Jihad and massacred the Jews, had it not been for the "grace of Allah." He quoted a verse from the Quran stating: "You did not kill them it was Allah who killed them."

Regarding Trump's plan to relocate Gaza residents, the imam said that either they return to their land within the 1948 borders, referring to Ashkelon, Ashdod, Ramla, Haifa, and Jerusalem, or they will be martyred. He pledged to continue on the path of Jihad and resistance until the liberation of Palestine. The sermon was delivered during a ceasefire between Hamas and Gaza and aired by Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas).

"The [Islamic] nation has been plagued with a disease, of love for the material world and a hatred of death. You however love martyrdom for the sake of Allah. You love to kill for the sake of Allah.

"By Allah, the resistance fighters could not fight, and could not massacre the Jews, if it had not been for the grace of Allah."

He's not wrong. Yes, it's all for the sake of Allah. It's all about Islam.