Martyrs Draw our Path to God

Source: Al-Manar TV, 12-2-2009

It is the blood of patriots that keeps nations alive.
It is also the blood of leaders, cadres, fighters and patriots that has been giving Hizbullah momentum and drawing its clear and evident path to God.

A year ago, the "Israeli" Mossad assassinated Hizbullah's resistance commander martyr Imad Moghnieh (Hajj Redwan) in Damascus.
He is known as the leader of the two victories. Hajj Redwan was the architect of the 2000 liberation of most of Lebanese territories from "Israel's" 22-year occupation and the man who marked the beginning of "Israel's" end when he ‘destroyed the third temple'.
It is the creators of this malicious entity who predicted that their first defeat will bring "Israel's" end.

In a movement like Hizbullah, a resistance that chose death over humiliation, oppression and occupation it is not likely that the killing of its leaders and cadres will stop. Hajj Redwan was simply the last, at least for now.

"Those martyrs presented the good example, achieved liberation, and are still defending the country and supporting the resistance in Palestine. They are still raising the banner, the ensign, the flag that we vowed together not to drop. The flag will never fall. On the contrary, it will pass from one shoulder to another and from one hand to another until it is raised up high over our mountain tops and over the dome of our beloved 'Aqsa' and until our Lebanese, Palestinian, Arab, and Islamic lands are free from occupation," Hizbullah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said during the funeral of martyr Ghaleb Awali - a Hizbullah cadre assassinated in July, 2004.

The ensign that is moving from one hand to another was first carried by "the sheikh of the martyrs of the Islamic Resistance" Sheikh Ragheb Harb who once said: "A position is a weapon and a hand shake is acknowledgment", referring to the acknowledgment of "Israel". His positions prompted the "Israelis" to detain him, what sparked an uprising across south Lebanon to demand his release. "Israel" couldn't quiet him so it found no other solution than to kill him on February 16, 1984. "Israel" thought that, by killing Sheikh Harb, it will go on with its scheme more smoothly. However, his blood, like the blood of those who will follow him, was destined to draw the path of resistance and jihad.

A few years later, Lebanon witnessed another "Israeli" assassination of a resistance figure. This time, it was Hizbullah Secretary General Sayyed Abbas Moussawi. He was on his way back home after having marked the eighth anniversary of Sheikh Harb's martyrdom when his car was hit by rockets launched from "Israeli" warplanes causing his death, his wife's and their son Hussein. Sayyed Mussawi's fundamental will was: "Preserve the resistance."

Once again, a leader's martyrdom had given the resistance movement momentum. Eleven years later, the "Israeli" occupation targeted a key resistance figure, Abu Ali Rida Yassin. The now strong resistance retaliated and bombed Zionist targets. "Israel" backed for eight years, before Said Harb, another resistance commander, fell martyr. At that same day, resistance fighters carried out two military operations against "Israeli" posts and shelled Zionist settlements with 'Katyosha' rockets.

Still, the procession of martyrs never stopped, as it's not meant to stop before complete victory. On August 1999, resistance commander Ali Hasan Dib, known as Abu Hassan Salameh, was targeted by a bomb explosion on the 'Abra-Hilaliye' road in southern Lebanon. Collaborator Mahmoud Rafeh had played a significant role in his assassination. Rafeh is under arrest and awaits trial and perhaps the gallows. He was also involved in the assassination of resistance commander Ali Hussein Saleh in the Kafa'at region in the southern suburb of Beirut on August 2003.

11 months have passed before another resistance figure joined the procession. Ghaleb Mohamed Awali was assassinated when a bomb planted in his car exploded in the 'Moawwad' region in the southern suburb of Beirut.

Last but for sure, not least, top commander Imad Moghnieh joined his brothers and all the Islamic resistance martyrs who made us proud and rendered our enemy defeated.

And the procession of martyrs continues...