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Hamas Political Bureau Chairman Ismail Haniyeh: “I announce to you this mighty victory that was recorded by the heroic resistance (i.e., Hamas rocket attacks on Israeli cities). This divine, strategic, complex victory at this stage of the conflict with the Zionist enemy… This battle will have a...”

Hamas Political Bureau member Fathi Hammad: “In every house in the Gaza Strip there is an AK-47 [assault rifle] in the hands of a jihad fighter, and he is ready – after standing all night praying to Allah that he be chosen as a Martyr. We in the Gaza Strip prefer death to humiliation. We prefer...”

“This is the guy I told you about (i.e., the suicide bomber). I wanted to carry out the operation with him.”

Woman: “I set out‏ ‏to murder criminals like you!”‎

"They will sacrifice their blood and all that is precious to them in defense of their land, defense of their Jerusalem,"

“By Allah, if the blood turns into rivers, their prisons will not remain but will be destroyed"

A Hamas militant loads bullets into an ammunition magazine and shoots at an Israeli hand with an Israeli flag

“Our prisoners, your images have never disappeared from our eyes”

This video was originally broadcast on Nov. 12, 2018 and rebroadcast several times

"The Palestinian resistance has a right to an earth-shattering response to this crime"

"Explode, onward, explode, and let your soul be liberated"

"We must attack every Jew on the planet – slaughter and kill"

"Yasser Arafat would say to us: ‘At this stage we want to calm things,’ and we would calm them."

Voice off-screen: "O beloved resistance member, strike - strike Tel Aviv!"

Lyrics: "We have started blowing up Tel Aviv… We will ambush them. We will trample the necks of the enemies."

"The coming days will be a test for the occupation.”

"According to the Israeli media, more than 700 missiles were launched from the Gaza Strip – which is patient, carrying out Ribat, and besieged – towards the oppressive occupation entity in the last two days"

"The resistance will define a number of the conditions...that will force the occupation to implement these understandings"

Senior Hamas official: "Set out with Allah’s blessing on the path of Jihad and resistance" 

Lyrics: "We’ll fight with the rifle, with the Molotov [cocktail], and with rocks"

Lyrics: "Advance, [Israeli soldier], and await your grave, advance and be defeated; So that you will see the gate of death"

Song lyrics: "We’ll make our enemy live in fear, in fear, in fear…"

"Blow up the Zionists"

Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas), message from Hamas during direct broadcast from the Gaza Strip Visual: Text on screen: “Urgent news item Hamas: We express our appreciation of and pride in our wonderful people, who stood behind the resistance and supported it.” Israel-Hamas clash in November 2018 – an Israeli...

Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas), live broadcast from the Gaza Strip Al-Aqsa TV host: “In a live broadcast we are seeing young Palestinians waving flags of Palestine, expressing the Palestinian resistance’s great achievement (see note below –Ed.).” Israel-Hamas clash in November 2018 – an Israeli special forces...