Hamas Founder Sends Solidarity Letter to Arafat

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Hamas Founder Sends Solidarity Letter to Arafat

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Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, founder and spiritual leader of Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), Monday sent a letter of solidarity to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat who has been besieged into his compound in Ramallah by Israeli troops.

In the opened letter he read in a rally organized by Hamas in Gaza City in solidarity with Arafat, Yassin urged Arafat to continue his struggle and not to surrender to the Israeli army.

He urged Arafat "never get your head down. Keep it up, die in dignity, never die humiliated and never surrender to the enemy, because surrender means ending resistance and Intifada."

"I urge you not to surrender and to continue your struggle because the Israeli siege imposed on you aims at making you accepting the Israeli conditions and stopping the Intifada and resistance," Yassin stressed.

He said that Israel had achieved a great failure to stop the Intifada and resistance, and it tries to justify this failure by besieging President Arafat's office and destroying his headquarters. Yassin, 65, sitting on his wheeling chair participated in the procession organized by several Palestinian political groups in support for Arafat that the Israeli army raided his compound on Thursday and destroyed most of it.

Hamas movement had carried out a suicide bombing attack on Monday in a bus in Tel Aviv killing eight people and wounded more than 60 others.

Right after the attack, the Israeli army began to destroy Arafat's headquarters in Ramallah.

It was reported that the Israeli government also decided at a cabinet meeting to deport Yassin out of the Gaza Strip, but it has not been implemented.

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