Following is the statement issued by the National and Islamic Forces on January 20, 2001; signatories are: Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fateh); Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP); Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas); Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP); Palestinian People’s Party (PPP); Palestinian Democratic Union (FIDA); Palestinian Popular Struggle Front; Palestinian Liberation Front; Islamic Jihad Movement; Arab Liberation Front; Palestinian Arab Front; Popular Front—General Command; Islamic National Salvation Party; and Popular Liberation War Pioneers (Sa’iqa):

Our great Palestinian masses
Our Arab and Islamic Masses
Our Intifada heroes

Your steadfastness and heroic positions has the influential impact on frustrating the US-Israeli conspiracy that aimed to transfer the proposals of President Clinton into a term of reference for the peace process. The firm clinging to the right of return and to all the national constants constitute the shield that will protect and safeguard the right of our people in self determination and the establishment of their sovereign independent Palestinian state with the blessed al-Quds as its capital.

The National and Islamic Forces view that continuation and intensification of the negotiations under the policy of the Zionist entity government that denies the constant rights of our people are futile and won't secure a solution that can guarantee the full withdrawal of all occupation and settlers from our lands.

The National and Islamic Forces praise the position of the PNBA regarding the punishment of the collaborators and warns of the spread of the Israeli criminal schemes that aim to cause a split inside the Palestinian society through the collaborators. The Forces condemn any party that tries to take the law into its own hands and affirm that implementing the law is through the judicial commissions and institutions that deal with the rule of the law.

The steadfastness of our heroic prisoners in the detentions of the Zionist enemy at a time when the blessed Intifada of the Aqsa, Jerusalem, Independence and Return escalates constitute a positive momentum that affirms the determination and will of our people. Confronting settlements and protecting the lands at this particular phase constitute part of the Intifada activities so that settlers will not know the taste of calm and stability and start thinking of leaving as an alternative.

As the National and Islamic Forces reaffirm the need to evacuate the markets from the Israeli goods by January 31, they call upon the masses to participate in the following activities:
 

1. Tuesday, January 23, 2001, a day of organizing popular marches and activities to reject the aggression, siege and arrests and to demand temporary international protection and the freedom for the prisoners and detainees.
2. Friday, January 26, 2001, a day of marches and activities to affirm the right of return and resist settlements and settlers and protect the lands and activate the activities on the bypass roads and the areas near settlements and move against the settlers' gangs and their bloody attack against our masses.

The Intifada of our great Palestinian people wherever they are is supported by the Arab and Islamic masses constitute the effective lever that maintains the national constants towards achieving the goals and impose the will of our people regarding freedom and independence god's willing.

Long live the blessed Intifada
Glory and eternity for our martyrs
Fast recovery to the injured and freedom for our heroic prisoners
It is an Intifada until victory

The National and Islamic Forces