Islamic Jihad: We Will Resume Martyrdom Operation

02/08/2010 Islamic Jihad said on Sunday that it had decided to resume martyrdom operations against the Zionist entity from the occupied West Bank.

The threat came in response to attacks launched by IAF planes on the Gaza Strip in the past few days.

Islamic Jihad has only a few hundred followers in the West Bank. Its members have carried out a number of martyrdom operations in the Zionist entity.

PA security forces have arrested many of the group’s members in the West Bank.

The Israeli occupation army has also arrested dozens of Islamic Jihad activists in recent years.

“Martyrdom operations require places for training and preparing explosive belts,” said Abu Ahmed, spokesman for the Al-Quds Battalions, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad. “It’s very difficult to do these things because of the policy of security coordination and the arrest of [would be] suicide bombers.”

Members of his group were “suffering a lot” in the West Bank because of the PA’s security measures and “persecution,” he said.

Abu Ahmed described the PA’s crackdown as a “national crime” against Palestinians.

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