“And do not speak of those who are slain in Allah's way as dead; nay, (they are) alive, but you do not perceive” (Al-Baqara 154)
His rent was tested with poverty… He was tested with orphanhood… He was thrown into dungeons, exiled; but he did not deviate from his cause… Rantisi, who was the fearful dream of the Zionists, despite his successful academic career, rejected the blessings of the world and chose martyrdom by making jihad with his property and life.
RESISTANCE MUJAHEED: RANTISI
Rantisi is one of the great leaders of the Islamic world who was imprisoned, tortured, exiled, ended his life with martyrdom as he wished, and left his mark on the century for our cause of Palestine and Jerusalem.
Rantisi, who said one week before his martyrdom, "Death will come to us eventually, either by having a heart attack in our bed or by a missile fired from Apache... I choose Apache," cannot endure longing for his leader. A month after Sheikh Ahmed Yassin was martyred, he was martyred by a missile fired from an Apache as he wished, and joined Hamza's (R.A.) army.
A LIFE DEVOTED TO THE FIGHT
Abdel Aziz Rantisi was born in 1947 in Yebna village between Askalan and Jaffa. With the occupation in 1948, Rantisi and his family had to take shelter in Gaza. The family settled in Khan Younis, in the south of Gaza, where the poor live mostly. Because the Israeli gangs confiscated all the property of the Rantisi family, they remained poor. Rantisi, who has 9 brothers and 3 sisters, was only a six-month-old baby at the time. He starts primary school at the age of six. However, due to the very bad financial situation of his family, he has to work in his spare time from school. Rantisi's brother, who lost his father when he was at the end of secondary school (1962), goes to Saudi Arabia to work to provide for his family. Rantisi walks barefoot while she is preparing to enter high school. He has no money to buy shoes because he is poor. One day he finds money from somewhere and buys shoes. His mother asks him to give the shoes to his brother who went to Saudi Arabia. Rantisi does not say no to this and returns home barefoot.
Rantisi describes the summary of his childhood as follows:
"We were living a dignified and wealthy life in our own homeland. However, the Jews, who occupied my country and dispersed their owners, crushed us as they crushed us in the grip of poverty."