16-year-old dreamed of meeting the “Dark-Eyed Virgins” when becoming a “Martyr”

Interviewer: “If these are the last three minutes in your life, what do you want to tell your mother?”

Terrorist Ashraf Al-Sa’adi: “Forgive me, do not cry over me, and I love you… I’m not afraid of the [Israeli] army. I‘ll die as a Martyr and take the Al-Aqsa Mosque.”

Interviewer: “Why do you want to die as a Martyr? Why do you want to take Al-Aqsa?”

Ashraf Al-Sa’adi: “For God, for the land, and for the homeland.”

Interviewer: “What will you find in Paradise?”

Ashraf Al-Sa’adi: “Prophet [Muhammad] and the Dark-Eyed Virgins.”

[Fatah Movement – Bethlehem Branch, Telegram channel, July 9, 2023]

Islamic tradition teaches that a Martyr marries 72 Virgins in Paradise

Posted text on Telegram channel: “‘Forgive me [mother] and do not cry over me, I love you, and I am not afraid of the [Israeli] army.’

Martyr Ashraf Al-Sa’adi (i.e., terrorist) who ascended to Heaven in an Israeli aircraft strike in Jenin a number of days ago.”

Muhammad Aweis, Suhaib Al-Ghoul, and Ashraf Al-Sa'adi – Palestinian terrorists aged 28, 27, and 16 respectively who shot at Jalame checkpoint near Jenin on June 21, 2023. While the three terrorists attempted to escape the area by car, an Israeli military drone fired a missile at the vehicle, killing all three terrorists. Aweis was a commander of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades (Fatah's military wing), Al-Ghoul was a commander of the Jenin Brigade (part of Islamic Jihad's military wing), and Al-Sa'adi was a member of the Jenin Brigade. The terrorists previously committed shooting attacks targeting the Israeli towns of Gan Ner on May 28, 2023, and Meirav on April 17, 2023, both near Jenin.