The following official statement was reported on an official Hamas website
www.alqassam.ps/arabic/win_bayan.php?nid=3844
as translated by Google:

2008-05-14 2008-05-14 0805-39 0805-39
Blessed be the Qassam Brigades bombardment of Ashkelon

And stresses it a natural response to the crimes of occupation and
aggression
(Fight them with their hands and God will punish them and insist on Ikhozhm
and cured the people believing)
Military statement issued by the Martyr Brigades, Izz al-Din al-Qassam

Blessed be the Qassam Brigades bombardment Ashkelon
And stresses it a natural response to the crimes of occupation and
aggression
14/05/2008

T. Park Martyr Brigades, Izz al-Din al-Qassam brothers in the Mujahedeen
Brigades, Jihad Jibril, the martyr - the military wing of the Popular
Front-General Command - quality operations of the bombing of the city of
Ashkelon south of occupied Palestine rocket type "locusts" evening approved
today, Wednesday, 14/05/2008, which resulting in dozens of casualties in the
ranks of the Zionists due to strike the missile trade center in the city
center.

The Qassam Brigades, the process and the bombing is blessed natural response
to the continuous Zionist crime against our people in the Gaza Strip and
West Bank, which did not stop for one moment and not so martyred five of our
people today in Jabaliya and Khan Younis.

We Martyr Brigades, the Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades as to congratulate our
brothers in the Martyr Brigades, Jihad Jibril, this process; told warn the
Zionist enemy to commit any folly in the Gaza Strip and the escalation of
aggression which means more operations more sudden and quality that bedevil
the occupation and balkanization of harsh and painful lessons.

God is great, and victory of the mujahideen
It is a jihad victory or martyrdom,,,
Martyr Brigades, Izz al-Din al-Qassam
M. approved 14/05/2008