Interview on Explosive Material Training

It involved assembling explosive materials.

How? Tell us what you assembled. I worked with TNT, meaning there was...

I had experience because I received training abroad.

So I had experience with TNT, as well as assembling

explosive materials.

Salameh received the explosives from Mohammed Deif, Ayyash's successor

and commander of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades.

Mohammed was the one who directly offered me the opportunity

to leave, exactly.

and join a group that I contacted.

Which group? A group from Jerusalem.

You told me, you told me that you were in Syria.

And then?

From Syria, I returned to Sudan.

After Sudan, I returned to Iran. What was in Iran?

There was training for the movement.

And I trained there. And in Iran, who were the

instructors? Iranian trainers.

Where?

At a site in Iran. I don't know where. I didn't leave

the site. What kind of site? A military site. What site? We lived

at an Iranian army site, I mean. I think after I joined the group in Jerusalem, it was...

Getting acquainted. Carrying out operations was considered.

The martyrdom operations that took place inside Israel.

I was assigned to carry out three operations. The issue of martyrdom or

jihad is considered the pinnacle of Islamic work.

A person gains the afterlife and earns the approval of God Almighty.

But martyrdom for what? Not for, say, not

for, say,

personal reasons or material goals

or anything like that. No, for a goal, the goal of Islam or the interests of

his homeland, since he has the right to defend his homeland

as a religious duty. And what happens to a martyr after...?

By God, I haven't tried it.

of Hassan Rahman Salameh, accused of murdering dozens of people

in suicide bombings and acts of terror, is still ongoing.