Al Aqsa vows to continue intifada, criticises new Palestinian government

News, September 2003, www.aljazeerah.info

Khaleej Times, (AFP), Al-Jazeerah

28 September 2003

GAZA CITY - Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, linked to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s Fatah group, vowed on Sunday to continue the armed struggle against the Israeli occupation of Palestine and criticised the formation of a new Palestinian government.

“Resistance is the only language that the enemy understands and the only means to free Palestine from occupation,” the group responsible for numerous anti-Israeli attacks and suicide bombings said in a statement released here.

The “Palestinian people turn their back on plots, including, on the order of Zionists and Americans, the formation of a new government seeking to end the intifada and pursue members of its resistance,” the statement said.

The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades is the main secular resistance group waging an uprising against Israel.

Formed with the start of the intifada, it takes its name from the Al Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem, which Israel illegally annexed after the 1967 aggression. Al-Aqsa Mosque is Islam’s third holiest site (after those in Makkah and Medina), where the uprising broke out on September 29, 2000 with bloody clashes.

Israel has arrested and put on trial the Fatah leader for the West Bank, Marwan Barghuthi, for having orchestrated the Brigades’ operations, who also played a key role in arranging the Ceasefire that lasted almost a month and a half until the Sharon government ended it by assassination of Palestinian activists.

Earth, a planet hungry for peace

The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers (Ran Cohen, pmc, 5/24/03).

The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers in the West Bank (Ran Cohen, pmc, 5/24/03).

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