Name:  Mahmoud Sabri Sobhi Hana

Date of martyrdom:  January,15^th 2008

Hometown:  Al-Zaytoon brotherhood

Brief introduction:

There are men who create the history , they make a wonderful struggle and fight by their bloods. Those men don't be distracted by the daily life business, but they are working for the sake of freeing all the lands of Palestine from the Zionists.

Early life:

He was born in 1987 in the Al-Zaytoon brotherhood, he brought up in a family which is fit with the Islamic rules. Mahmoud had five brothers and five sisters and he was the elder one among them.

Since his childhood, Mahmoud loved to be a resistors against the Zionist entity since his childhood because he saw how aggressive the Zionist forces were when they treated the innocent Palestinian people by shelling, committing massacres, halting the initial materials and a lot of important things.

He begun his study in Safad school, he took the primary stage from Tunis school and he affiliated the secondary school after that. He didn't complete his study due to the hard and deteriorate material situations which his family was faced.

Mahmoud worked in an electric shop, his relation was characterized by a unique relation with the owner of the shop. One day Mahmoud was taken by the owner of the shop to work in a home, Mahmoud saw a bad picture inside the house so he cut it into pieces, after that the owner of the shop dismissed him from the job.

Next, Mahmoud worked in another shop and his ethics and morals were unmatched than the other. When Mahmoud had a leisure time, he was reciting from the holly Q'uran and he was performing the five prayers on time, besides fasting every Monday and Thursday.

Speaking about martyrdom:

Mahmud's father said that his son was speaking about the martyrs a lot when he was only fourteen. One day he went to the mosque, where he prays always, to pray and after finishing, he came back home remaining crying for three days and he was saying I want the martyrdom.

An other feature of Mahmoud worked as a secretary, Mahmoud was a secret person that no one of his neighbors knows about his work.

The supreme of patience:

Mahmoud knew the way of martyrdom, he began praying at the mid nights, Mahmoud was performing the mid-night prayers throughout a year. Mahmoud asked his parents to permit him sharing with his brotherhood the resistance path.

Finally, he joined to Hamas movement due to his strong faith and bravery. Then, he joined the Al-Mujahideen of Al Qassam Brigades in  2005. When his brotherhood witnessed his intelligence and smart, they let him joined to the engineering section in Al-Qassam organized Brigades.

His father talked to him about marriage, but Mahmoud refused and after some days he said to his father don't worry I will marry.

Day of martyrdom:

In January 15^th ,2008, Mahmoud was playing with his younger sister saying to her "please forgive me in case of hurting you". After that an official member in the military wing of Al-Qassam Brigades said to him that the Zionist tanks advanced to invade Al-Zaytoon brotherhood. When Mahmoud heard this news, he went fast to the area of the invasion. The Zionist planes noticed them and it shelled a rocket towards them, Mahmoud and his brothers were martyred. His comment on his son martyrdom "his scarifies was for the liberation of Palestine"