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Security Forces, the best unit available, to attack the workshop. The
battalion surrounded the workshop for several hours and occupied the
roofs of nearby buildings, where they mounted their machine guns.
“Before dawn, the police called our brothers through loudspeakers
and told them that the workshop was under siege and that they ought
to surrender. Immediately after that, the break-in unit, which is made
up of the best Central Security officers wearing shields, began the
attack by spraying the door with an endless hail of bullets and shouting
to the brothers to surrender. . . .
“Isam and his companions were prepared for this eventuality. They
had an electric wire fastened a few centimeters away from the iron door.
They had two old short machine guns, two revolvers, and a number of
hand grenades in their possession.
“When the break-in troops tried to storm their way into the gate
they were jolted, and they immediately retreated in shock. Isam seized
the opportunity and hurled a hand grenade over the door. It landed in
the middle of the break-in team, killing or wounding the team members.
The battalion officers and soldiers panicked when they heard the
screams of the break-in team. There was complete silence in the air.
Isam and his companions climbed to the roof of the workshop and
started hailing the neighboring rooftops with bullets from their two
machine guns, which soon stopped working. But Isam and his companions
did not stop. They rained the force with 10 hand grenades,
nine of which exploded. The resistance by the force stopped, and here
Isam realized that it had been weakened. The brothers emerged from
the workshop. They found a soldier in front of them pointing his
weapon at them. However, he turned his back on them. Brother Nabil
Na’im shot him in the head.
“Isam asked them to sit still and wait for him to throw a hand grenade
then start running in the direction of the grenade. The brothers
started running through the cordons of the siege. It was as if they were
running amidst dead people and ghosts. They continued to run until
they reached the neighboring hills of Al-Muqattam. From a distance,
they sat down to watch the badly hurt troops as they gathered their
wounded men and moved back to their vehicles. Ibrahim Salamah
suggested that this was the best opportunity to attack the battalion
with what was left with the brothers in terms of ammunition, but Isam
decided it was enough.
“The brothers continued to walk on the hills of Al-Muqattam.
Ibrahim Salamah had a hand grenade in his hand. He had removed
the pin from it then returned it again. However, it seemed that the pin
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