19 October 2001

In the name of Allah the most Gracious the most Merciful

Assassinations and arrests

Will not stop our people’s Jihad, resistance and intifada

Our Mujahid people

O’ you who have chosen Jihad, resistance and intifada as the road towards restoring rights have clearly said to the whole world that the Palestinian rights could not be bargained over or relinquished. O’ you who have proven that the Palestinian people despite a year of intifada that was full of wounds and pains were still capable and prepared to offer more sacrifices. The Palestinians are always capable of creating new methods of confronting the enemy. The Palestinians affirmed through the operation that targeted one of the symbols of Zionist terrorism (Rahba’am Ze’evi) that all the enemy’s security measures could not protect it or its occupation.

If the entire Palestinian people, with their various trends and forces, have expressed strong support of the heroic operation launched by Martyr Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades. They even expressed satisfaction to see the enemy have a taste of the suffering that it has been subjecting us to by killing our leaders, symbols [of our struggle] and Mujahideen. However, the Palestinian Authority regretfully disappointed the Palestinian people by arresting leaders and cadres of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ignoring the feelings of its people. It should have been, instead, busy with defending its people against the Zionist enemy’s crimes in the past few days when the enemy assassinated a number of resistance cadres,  murdered Palestinian women and children and reoccupied  Palestinian towns.

We condemn the arrests of our brothers in the PFLP and all previous arrests that included cadres in Hamas and Jihad Movements. We also urge the PA to immediately release all detainees and halt all security and other meetings with the enemy. We further ask the PA not to tamper with national unity to serve the interests of our enemy and the patron of its terrorism, the American administration.

We also affirm our solidarity and extend our warmest condolences to our brothers in the Aqsa Martyrs Brigades who lost a group of Mujahideen especially martyr Atef Obayat. We urge the PA to prosecute agents and severely punish all those involved in this crime. We also call on the Qassam Brigades and military wings of all factions to retaliate to the enemy’s crimes and continue their Jihad program asserting our rejection of the so called ceasefire. Our people’s option, which won national consensus, was that of resistance and persistence of the intifada. Our people and their Jihad and struggling factions will not be terrorized by Zionist threats and will not be deceived by American promises and will continue in their steadfastness and resistance until ejection of occupation and liberation of our lands and holy places God willing.

And it is a Jihad until either victory or martyrdom

The Islamic Resistance Movement
Hamas – Palestine
19/10/2001