Name: Bilal Khalil Ashirbasi

Rank: Qassam member

Martyrdom: 6^th of June, 2008

Introduction:

"Al Qassam Brigades remains in the field by theirs' commanders and by its strong resistance men who avenge the Palestinian crimes ", Bilal used to say this sentence. Bilal admired by the achieved operations which were done by the Al Qassam Brigades in the Al-Aqsa intifada.

Early life:

In a house kept with the faith of Islam, Bilal Khalil Ashirbasi was brought up in a family which committed with Jihad, his family is composed of eleven members scattered among six sons and four daughters in addition to the father and the mother, Bilal is the third among his brothers.

He received the faithful education in his family since his childhood, he learnt to maintain prayer and religion and he attended the mosque and the Quran circles with his brotherhoods. His family migrated from the village of "Alkovkh" following the Zionist occupation to the Palestinian territories in 1948.

School life:

Bilal took his lessons in several schools during his school stages, he studied the primary stage in Al-Hashimya School, and the preparatory in the UNRWA school. After completing his primary and junior high school he moved to Yaffa School in the neighborhood of Addaraj to study the secondary stage.

 
During his secondary stage, he enrolled in the ranks of Islamic bloc, student wing, of the Islamic Resistance Movement "Hamas", he was an example of activeness of work within the Labour student, where he participated in many activities of the Bloc's in the school, he participated in distributing leaflets and statements of the Islamic Bloc and its activities.

 
Beyond that he joined the faculty of industry for training at Imam Shafei, and he specialized at this faculty. After that, he opened a supermarket to rely on himself helping his family, and he got married in 2005.

Mosque:
Bilal used to pray at Ali Bin Marwan, he conserved to do the five prayers regularly and he was marked with steadiness to be in the first line in every prayer, specially the dawn pray.

 
He was as a stimulant to the Muslim youths in the area and his family for the dawn prayer. Abu Suhaib, who accompanied Bilal in the mosque, said "Abu Anas dealt with the youth continuation in the mosque and he used to wake up early in order not to miss the dawn prayer."

Muslim Brotherhood:

He was distinguished by his activities within the invitations, along with his family and social activities that he was in the service of the Islamic faith, he entered the Muslim Brotherhood at the beginning in 2007. Bilal was one of the most committed young people in the group prayer, he has been guiding some young people because of his good style in dealing with others.

Abu Hamza, one of the Muslim youth, said, "Bilal was taking the youths from places of entertainment and submit them to one of sheiks in the mosque and says to him: you should take care of those young men."

Al Qassam Brigades:

Since the beginning of the Al Aqsa Intifada and the beginning of jihadist and military actions against the Zionist enemy and the usurper Zionist occupier, he loved working within the ranks of Al Qassam Brigades. Then he began moving and trying to achieve his desire by several points to be included within Al Qassam Brigades and he insisted to be joined in Al Qassam Brigades a lot, that he joined the ranks of Al Qassam in 2006.

 
He began working in protection groups of Al Qassam Brigades, and he was one of the watchful eyes in anticipation of his brothers and monitoring the movements of the Zionist enemy, he was always looking for the military targets of the Zionist enemy to be able to hit it and planting the mines and explosive devices .

 
Because of his courage and disruption , he joined the ranks of the Special Unit, he obtained many of the refresher courses in the Special Unit, he specialized in the engineering explosives and he was a creative and a distinctive enough in this aspect.

Got what he wanted:

On the night of Saturday, 6^th, June 2008, Bilal got out to guard Gaza borders, which he was entrusted on, he was full of readiness to repel the Zionist aggression. During his work in the front lines, the Zionist tanks fired a missile at him and he martyred in this incident.