1 May 2001

In the name of Allah the most Gracious the most Merciful

Booby-trapped cars and blasting civilian houses

Dangerous stage in Zionist aggression against our people

The Zionist criminal mentality invented a new form of terrorism and murder against our unarmed people namely exploding residential buildings full of innocent civilians with the use of booby-trapped cars in each of Gaza and Ramallah killing children, women and men. At the same time Zionist foreign minister Shimon Peres was embarking on his deceptive tours misleading the world into believing that the Zionist entity was heading towards calming down the situation!

Apparently the Zionist interior minister Uzi Landau’s threats to perpetrate explosions in a number of Arab capitals especially Damascus and Beirut had already started in cities of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Our people’s various forces should be on the alert in view of the seriousness of the current stage and be prepared to confront it especially when the enemy was practicing its crimes against our people in a very serious duality run by the terrorists Sharon and Peres. Murder, destruction and escalation on the ground are practiced while deceptive political maneuvers are launched in various capitals to cover up for the enemy’s crimes in the field. The goal is one namely to crush the intifada and resistance and to spread despair among our people in the possibility of liberating their lands and restoring their rights in addition to pressuring the Palestinian Authority into returning to the negotiations according to Sharon’s conditions.

Confronted by such serious developments, we affirm the following:

1- We call on our Mujahid people along with their forces, factions and brave resistance groups to intensify efforts and mobilize potentials to defend our people and to continue and escalate the intifada in addition to stepping up resistance operations against enemy targets.

2- We urge leaders of our Arab and Islamic Nation to stop dealings and meetings with the Zionist enemy. We beseech them to drop the mediation roles or initiatives and invite them to support our people’s intifada and resistance and to provide our people with political protection which a religious and national duty.

3- We ask the PA to suspend all political and security meetings with the criminal Zionist enemy and to refrain from passing resolutions curbing the resistance or dissolving popular resistance committees because our people have the full right to defend themselves with all means.

4-We condemn the PA’ return to the policy of political detention and demand the immediate release of Mujahid Dr. Abdul Aziz Ranteesi and the Mujahid hero Mahmoud Abu Hannoud and the rest of the detainees. The natural place for leaders of our people’s Jihad is the confrontation arena and not prisons.

In conclusion, we affirm that such explosions would not terrorize our people and that our people, with their factions and masses, reject to go backward. Our people insist on their intifada and resistance until liberation of their lands and ejection of occupation.

May Allah have mercy on our people’s martyrs

Allahu Akbar and victory for the Mujahideen

The Islamic Resistance Movement
Hamas – Palestine
Tuesday 7^th Safar 1422H
1^st May 2001AD