Qutuz, May Allaah Have mercy upon him, left Acre and headed South-East in search of a suitable place for the next battle. At the same time, the remaining troops of the Tatar army who had fled from Gaza reached Kitbuqa and told him about the movements of the Muslim army. Kitbuqa grew very angry because of the defeat of his garrison in Gaza, and was enraged even more because there were Muslims gathering to fight him, as if the Muslims, in principle, had no right of resistance; and if they resisted their enemy, this should infuriate Kitbuqa and the Tatars. Kitbuqa then held an advisory meeting with his leaders, and this meeting was attended by Al-Ashraf Al-Ayyoobi of Homs. Kitbuqa made his decision in this meeting to move quickly to fight the Muslim extremists who would spoil the peace process between Kitbuqa and the Muslim leaders, and put the Tatar-Islamic negotiations at risk.

It was clear that the movement of the Tatars towards the Muslims was so slow that it enabled Qutuz to cut most of Palestinian coast from South to North before the Tatars could enter the Palestinian borders, despite the fact that the distance between the Biqaa‘ Valley of Lebanon and the Lebanese-Palestinian borders was no more than 100 kilometers, and it would take 2-3 days for the army to cover that distance. The point is that Qutuz, May Allaah Have mercy upon him, was the first to move in search for a suitable place for the battle. That was a good point in his favor, which enabled him to arrange the brigades of his army in a better way, test the region and know well its nature and secret places.

Kitbuqa moved southwards between the mountains of Lebanon until he entered Palestine from the North-East, West of the Golan Heights, and then crossed the Jordan River and reached East Galilee. The Muslim reconnoiterers detected the movement of Kitbuqa, and soon transmitted the news to Qutuz, who had already left Acre in the South-East. However, when he heard the news, he hastened to cross the city of Nazareth, and moved further south-east until he reached a place known as the valley of ‘Ayn Jaaloot, nearly in the middle between Baysaan in the North and Nablus in the South, very close to the camp of Jenain, the place where one of the most important battles in the history of the earth would break out. Exalted be Allaah! Time passed and a very important battle broke out on this land between the Palestinian Mujaahids and the Jews in 2002, in which the Muslim martyrs exceeded 500, after they had showed wonderful perseverance when fighting.

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