Ismail Haniyeh Quotes

Most people heard about Hamas after Hamas started carrying out terrorist attacks. Hamas started out as an idea. Let's say a noble idea - resisting occupation.

We promise you that we will not cede a single part of Palestine, we will not cede Jerusalem, we will continue to fight and we will not lay down our arms.

I want to say to you, friends, that the Jewish community in Palestine is going to fight to the very end. If we have arms to fight with, we will fight with those, and if not, we will fight with stones in our hands.

We shall not enter Palestine with its soil covered in sand, we shall enter it with its soil saturated in blood

Israelis must be encouraged to defeat the Palestinians.

I tell my brethren in Palestine: be patient and continue your blessed struggle. We did not forget you. We are still healing another wound in the Muslim nation, which is the occupation of our land by the Americans. Your battle and ours are one and the same.

I believe that Palestine is an occupied land from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River, and this is the right of the entire Palestinian people, this land.

Hamas is a Palestinian political party with an aggressive militant wing.

Hamas, also elected to governmental leadership in Palestine, includes the jihadists, people who have declared war on the United States of America and its ally, Israel.

Armed struggle is the only way to liberate Palestine.

We want a full-scale, popular war of liberation to destroy the Zionist base in Palestine. The time has come to use these arms for the purpose for which they were created.

We have said very clearly that we will never put down our arms while there is occupation and if one Palestinian prisoner remains in an Israeli jail.

There is only one way to liberate Palestine and Al-Aqsa, and that is the fighting, that is the Jihad, that is the slaughtering, that is the butchering…call it dialogue.

I believe in the armed struggle as the only solution for those people who fight to free themselves.

Forward, without ever turning back. ... All wars of independence have been obliged to suffer terrible tests.

Palestinian violence is not a response to the capture of the West Bank and Gaza. Palestinian nationalism's roots are not so shallow.

Israel defines Palestinians more than anything else.

Hamas's strategy is resistance and survival. As long as they survive, this is a victory.

Hamas is a humanitarian organization.

Long live jihad and long live Palestine.

Get the hell out of Palestine.

Palestine has a very strong nonviolent movement.

We must raise and train an army of fighters for freedom.

Let us fight to free the world!

The Charkha is an outward symbol of truth and nonviolence.