21 October 2001

In the name of Allah the most Gracious the most Merciful

Yes to our national unity and armed resistance

No to cowardice and capitulation

Our Mujahid people:

Our people everywhere, our people in Tulkarm, Qalqilya, Ramallah, Jenin, Bethlehem, Beit Jala and in all areas of Palestine … may Allah be with you while facing the biggest terrorist force on Earth. You are facing it with bare chests, flesh and blood while declaring that you would not be eliminated and that with Jihad, patience and sacrifices you will survive forever since you are backed by right and determination. You will continue to survive with the grace of Allah until victory and liberation.

Our proud, Mujahid people:

Here the enemy is storming cities, killing scores of our people, arresting and kidnapping hundreds while his war minister arrogantly declares that he will not withdraw from the cities that his army stormed. He was thus affirming that such practices were our enemy’s sole program in dealing with our people. The best proof is that the enemy’s arrests and assassinations had covered all those included in the list of wanted persons that was handed to the Palestinian Authority during the security coordination meetings.

We affirm that the whole world is called upon to condemn our enemy’s crimes namely the siege, murder, assassinations and detentions and should immediately and practically act to put an end to those crimes. We also declare that our Jihad would continue until ejection of occupation, that our people’s resistance would not be deterred by such aggressions and that our people’s steadfastness would not be shaken by those aggressions regardless of the murder and destruction tools used.

Our Mujahid people:

Despite that outrageous aggression, the shelling, destruction and storming and despite the fall of scores of martyrs and hundreds of wounded we are surprised to hear discordant voices speaking about a ceasefire. They even call for not confronting the aggression as if they were asking our people to allow the enemy to slaughter them the way it wished hoping to satisfy our enemy or please the American administration, which declares on each and every occasion its backing to our enemy and protects it at international forums.

Our people have the right to ask: which party would benefit from such calls? Is it in the interest of the Palestinian people to remain arms-folded while being slaughtered? Why are some parties so keen to satisfy the American administration and woo terrorist Sharon endangering the lives of  our people for the sake of reaching that goal?

Our proud people:

In such circumstances and at a time when we are in dire need of unity of ranks and national unity, the Palestinian Authority issues a very serious decision outlawing all military wings of our national and Islamic factions. This entails prosecution of all Mujahideen in a treacherous stab in the back of our people’s Mujahideen who are united over the resistance option.

We denounce that decision and urge the PA to rescind it and request its support of the Mujahideen along with safeguarding them and supplying them with necessary arms. We also affirm the importance of ending all forms of security coordination and meetings with the enemy and warn the PA of the dangerous repercussions of its continued tampering with our people’s unity and the national forces and factions’ united stand in resisting occupation.

We ask all Palestinian forces especially the resistance brigades and our sons in the police and national security to shoulder their responsibility in defending their people, cities and villages. We urge them to unite in face of the aggression and to reject any procedure that might infringe on national unity or aid our enemy in achieving its mean aims. Let all of you carry the slogan: “Truly Allah loves those who fight in His Cause in battle array, as if they were a solid cemented structure.”

And it is a Jihad until either victory or martyrdom

The Islamic Resistance Movement
Hamas – Palestine
21/10/2001