The 38th anniversary of the launch of the Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas comes more than two years after a savage aggression and a war of extermination, starvation, and destruction—unprecedented in history—against more than two million besieged people in the Gaza Strip, alongside systematic crimes against our people in the West Bank and occupied Al-Quds, and plans aimed at annexing land, expanding settlements, and Judaizing Al-Aqsa Mosque. Over these two years, our great people, united with their valiant resistance, have confronted this brutal aggression with steadfast will, legendary resilience, and a heroic epic rarely seen in modern history.
On the 38th anniversary of our blessed launch, we in the Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas pray for mercy upon the souls of the founding leaders, foremost among them the martyred Imam Ahmed Yassin; upon the souls of the great martyred leaders of the Al-Aqsa Flood, Haniyeh, Sinwar, Al-Arouri, and Al-Deif, and their fellow martyrs in the movement’s leadership, who were at the heart of this heroic battle, shoulder to shoulder with the sons and daughters of our people. We also pray for mercy upon the convoys of martyrs from our people in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, Al-Quds, the territories occupied in 1948, the refugee camps and the diaspora, and all the martyrs of our nation whose blood has mingled with that of our people.
We stand with pride and honor before the steadfastness, courage, sacrifices, and perseverance of our great people in all arenas—foremost among them our people in Gaza, the land of dignity, defiance, and pride—who strove, endured, and stood guard in defense of the land and the holy sites on behalf of the entire nation; likewise in the West Bank, Al-Quds, the lands occupied in 1948, and in refugee camps and the diaspora. We ask Allah Almighty for a swift recovery for the wounded and the sick, and for near freedom for the prisoners, detainees, and abductees in the prisons of the zionist enemy.
We affirm the following:
First: The Al-Aqsa Flood was a towering milestone in our people’s march toward freedom and independence, and it will remain a firm landmark marking a true beginning for driving out the occupation and ending its presence on our land.
Second: Over two full years of aggression against our people in the Gaza Strip, the occupation has achieved nothing but the criminal targeting of unarmed civilians and civilian life. With all its barbaric war machine, fascist army, and American support, it has failed to achieve its aggressive objectives.
Third: The movement has adhered to all the provisions of the ceasefire agreement, while the occupation continues to violate the agreement daily, fabricating flimsy pretexts to evade its obligations. Accordingly, we reaffirm the following:
1. We demand that the mediators and the U.S. administration pressure the occupation and compel its fascist government to implement the agreement’s provisions, and condemn its ongoing, systematic violations.
2. We demand that the U.S. administration honor its declared commitments to the ceasefire framework, pressure the occupation to respect the ceasefire, halt its violations and assaults against our people, open the crossings—especially the Rafah crossing in both directions—and intensify the entry of aid.
3. We categorically reject all forms of trusteeship or mandate over the Gaza Strip or any inch of our occupied land, and warn against acquiescing to attempts at displacement and the re-engineering of the Strip according to the enemy’s plans. We affirm that our people alone decide who governs them; they are capable of managing their own affairs and possess the legitimate right to defend themselves, liberate their land, and establish their fully sovereign independent state with Al-Quds as its capital.
4. We call upon our Arab and Islamic nation—leaders and governments, peoples and organizations—to act urgently and mobilize all efforts and capabilities to pressure the occupation to halt its aggression, open the crossings, allow the entry of aid, immediately implement relief, shelter, and reconstruction plans, and provide the requirements of normal humanitarian life for more than two million Palestinians.
5. The crimes of the zionist enemy over two years of extermination and starvation in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and occupied Al-Quds are systematic and well-documented crimes that will not lapse with time. The International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court must continue to pursue the occupation and its criminal leaders, prosecute them, and prevent their impunity.
Fourth: Since its inception, the movement has remained—and will remain—steadfast in its principles, faithful to the blood and sacrifices of its people and prisoners, preserving its values and identity, and embracing and defending the aspirations of our people in all arenas of the homeland and in refugee camps and the diaspora, until liberation and return.
Fifth: Occupied Al-Quds and the captive Al-Aqsa Mosque will remain the central symbols of the struggle with the zionist entity. The occupation has neither legitimacy nor sovereignty over them. Judaization and settlement plans will not succeed in erasing their features. Al-Quds will remain the eternal capital of Palestine, and Al-Aqsa Mosque will remain purely Islamic.
Sixth: The crimes of the fascist occupation government against our people’s prisoners and detainees in its prisons constitute a sadistic approach and a systematic policy of revenge that has turned prisons into arenas of direct killing to liquidate them. We affirm that the liberation of our prisoners will remain at the top of our national priorities, denounce the international silence regarding their just cause, and call on the international community and human rights institutions to pressure the occupation to stop its crimes against them.
Seventh: Our inalienable national rights—foremost among them our people’s right to resist in all forms—are legitimate rights under international law and humanitarian norms, and cannot be relinquished or compromised.
Eighth: Achieving national unity and mobilizing to build a national consensus to reorder the Palestinian house according to a unified resistance strategy is the only way to confront the plans of the occupation and its supporters aimed at liquidating our national cause and preventing the establishment of our independent state with Al-Quds as its capital.
Ninth: The war of extermination and starvation perpetrated by the occupation against our people over two years—along with the accompanying horrific crimes and grave violations of the sovereignty of Arab and Islamic states—has revealed a rogue entity that now poses a real threat to the security and stability of our nation and to international peace and security. This requires international action to rein it in, stop its terrorism, isolate it, and end its occupation.
Tenth: We highly value and appreciate the efforts and sacrifices of all resistance forces and the free people of our nation and the world who have supported our people and our resistance. We call for unifying the efforts and capabilities of the nation in all fields to support our people and their resistance by all means, and to direct the compass toward the liberation of Palestine and the end of the occupation.
Eleventh: We commend the global popular movement in solidarity with our people and appreciate all official and popular positions supporting our just cause.
We call for escalating global action against the occupation and its criminal practices against our people and land, and for strengthening all forms of solidarity with our just cause and our legitimate rights to freedom and independence.
Mercy to the martyrs, healing to the wounded, and freedom for the prisoners and detainees.
It is indeed a jihad of victory or martyrdom.
Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas
Sunday: 23 Jumada al-Akhirah 1447 AH
Corresponding to: 14 December 2025