6 April  2001

In the name of Allah the most Gracious the most Merciful

Appeal to the Palestinian people and the Arab and Islamic Nation

The criminal terrorist Sharon provokes the Nation in its religion and desecrates its holy shrines

Our patient Mujahid Palestinian people

Our patient Arab and Islamic Nation

The terrorist mass murderer Sharon, who desecrated the Aqsa on 28/9/2000 and our Palestinian people retaliated with the blessed Aqsa intifada, returned to the same method after becoming prime minister of the Zionist entity. He ordered his security bodies to protect the Zionists’ alleged right of visiting the holy Aqsa Mosque and desecrating its honored yards.

The decision fell in line with his criminal plan to quell our people and in a desperate attempt to deprive them of the right of resisting brutal occupation and ejecting them from this holy land. The decision further came at conclusion of the Arab summit in Amman as if it was telling them that the Nation with its leaders and conferences did not have any weight or worth and that it should only submit to Zionist-American demands in pressuring the Palestinian people to cool down and yield to Zionist terrorism and arrogance.

We in the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, in face of such Zionist Sharonic recklessness, arrogance and provocation call on the Mujahid Palestinian people to abort Sharon’s aggressive plan through intensifying presence in the holy Aqsa Mosque regardless of circumstances and prevent the Zionist criminals from desecrating the first Muslim Qibla, third of the holiest shrines and the land of Isra’ and Mi’rage. We call on the Palestinian people to defend the Aqsa with hearts and souls and we are confident that Allah supports our Jihad and that the evil will one day terminate God wiling and that He is capable of everything “… and it was due from Us to aid those who believed.”

We also call on our Arab and Islamic peoples to take the initiative in supporting their religion and sanctities. We urge them to adopt all necessary measures to back our Mujahid people in their resistance of the Zionist aggression and in their insistence on national rights in lands and holy shrines including supplying them with all possible means.

We also ask leaders of the Arab and Islamic countries to side by our people and Nation’s rights and support their resistance option. We beseech them to be in harmony with our Arab and Islamic peoples’ demands for confronting Sharon and his aggressive schemes. We hope that they would not be deceived by the Zionist-American cunning that calls for dealing with Sharon and responding to his conditions and dictates under the pretext of stability and peace and the pretext of granting his a chance.

We hold the American administration the responsibility of the savage crimes perpetrated by Sharon day and night against our people, lands, holy shrines, children, trees and property. We also hold our brothers in Arab and Islamic leaderships part of the responsibility unless they hurried to defend our Aqsa and rescue our people rather than leaving them alone in face of the Zionist destruction machine. Almighty Allah will in the end bring those leaders to account where no single atom of good or evil is wasted.

As for us in Palestine, the land of Prophecies, Messages and sanctities, we are determined to go ahead along the road of Jihad until victory depending on Allah alone Who is the best of supporters.

O Allah we have voiced that statement O Allah be our Witness

And it is a Jihad until either victory or martyrdom

Allahu Akbar and victory to our people and Nation

The Islamic Resistance Movement
Hamas – Palestine
12 Muharram 1422H
6^th April 2001AD