Hossam Badran, the head of the National Relations Office of the Hamas Movement, said that the martyr leader Saleh Al-Aruri, has left his mark in all aspects of resistance work.
Badran affirmed in a press statement on Wednesday that Al-Aruri was an intellectual man with broad knowledge in addition to being a skillful politician. Al-Aruri was a liberated prisoner, an exile, and finally a martyr, Badran added.
He pointed out that Al-Aruri had a strong personality, setting his goals and moving forward to achieve them with determination and dedication. “He worked day and night and went beyond the stage of party leadership to reach the stage of national leadership, which is a position that is difficult to attain in our Palestinian situation,” Badran underlined.
He said, “Today, your people have lost you, and the fields of jihad and resistance will miss you, but you have achieved what you wished for … martyrdom.”
Badran added, “As for the criminal occupation, the battle between us and it is open, and the blood of Sheikh Al-Aruri and his brothers has been mixed with the blood of the people of Gaza in the battle of the Al-Aqsa flood, and the blood of all the free people of our people and nation, and it is precious and cherished blood, but every drop of it brings us closer to victory and liberation.”
Badran concluded by saying, “We do not say goodbye for we wish to meet with you in paradise. I ask Allah to honor us with martyrdom on the same path.”
Sheikh Saleh Al-Aruri, the Deputy Chairman of the Political Bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, was martyred after being targeted by an Israeli drone in the southern suburb of Beirut, after a long journey of jihad, imprisonment, and exile.
Al-Aruri, 57, was one of the founders of the Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, in the West Bank and spent 15 years in Israeli prisons before being deported from Palestine in 2010. He lived with his family abroad.
After his release in 2010, Al-Aruri was selected as a member of the Political Bureau of the Hamas Movement. He was also a member of the negotiating team from Hamas to complete the prisoner exchange deal in 2011 with Israel, mediated by Egypt, which Hamas called Wafa’ Al-Ahrar.
On October 9, 2017, Hamas announced the election of Al-Aruri as the Deputy Chairman of the Political Bureau of the Movement.
