9 years have passed and Ahmed Manasra is still in the occupation’s prisons,

being subjected to torture and abuse.

Ahmed, who entered prison as a child, has become a young man while he is still in prison

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Hassan Salama says in his book, The Buses Are Burning, describing the situation of the resistance fighters in the Gaza Strip after the beginning of coordination between the Palestinian Authority and the occupation after Oslo:

We, the wanted ones, were targeted by the Palestinian Authority's security services.

At that time, there was a great search for the engineer Yahya Ayyash, so we were living in hiding.

We refused to open the Authority's front, refused to hand over our weapons, and confronted all the arrest operations.

This was the equation with the Authority.

Therefore, Gaza was a real prison.

It was difficult to carry out any jihadist action, and even if operations took place, most of them were unsuccessful.

The authority’s security forces carried out extensive arrests after each operation to find out who was behind it.


So our effort was based on developing our weapons. We started by manufacturing bombs.

We had a great experience, especially two brothers Yahya Ayyash and Adnan al-Ghoul.

We, the wanted ones, had a leadership headed by the commander-in-chief, Muhammad al-Deif, who is credited with the cohesion Al- Qassam Brigades apparatus and its continued effectiveness. He succeeded in overcoming all obstacles and is respected by the authority.

After that, Al-Qassam Brigades decided to carry out the Gush Katif martyrdom operation in 1995

To confirm that Al-Qassam Brigades would continue its jihadist operations regardless of the circumstances and reasons.

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Zionist journalists/reporters have zero integrity. They are sneaky and often omit and alter facts.

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