Tareq's father: The operation that Tareq carried out took place on April 28, 2004, on a Wednesday. It was carried out after surveillance, which showed that a bus of settlers would come from Kisufim to Kfar Darom. Tareq got ready in a car with explosives, intending to crash into the bus. Circumstances delayed him from reaching the bus. But, Allah be praised... He saw the jeep behind the bus, and he immediately turned to it. The moment he saw that the bus was gone... All his thoughts were focused on carrying out the operation...

...Interviewer: So, he turned towards the jeep...

Tareq's father: He didn't hesitate for a moment. Some of the brothers, who were doing the surveillance and filming, told me they had said to him: "Tareq, come back, the bus is gone. Get back, and we will do it another time." He said to them: "I swear by Allah that I see the black-eyed virgins of Paradise on the hood of my car, so how can I possibly go back?" Of course, Tareq didn't return, and, Allah be praised, he crashed into the jeep, which led, according to what the Zionist enemy admitted, to the killing of six of them...

...Some people claim that all these young mujahideen who blow themselves up are desperate people with no money and no homes. These claims are wrong. These are lies and clear Zionist propaganda. All the mujahideen I came to know - and we pray that Allah will unite us with them in Paradise - are the finest of Palestinian society. In addition, they all have homes, money, and so on. They lack nothing. The only thing they need is to reach Paradise, by means of defense and martyrdom for the sake of Allah.