Following is the statement issued by the National and Islamic Forces on November 5, 2000; 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 courageous people,

Our Intifada is continuing towards liberation and independence, with increasing determination and national unity. In this context, the Islamic and national forces wish to confirm the continuation of the Intifada. We call upon our people to continue their struggle and their Intifada with one will in order to achieve its goals of liberation and independence. We also call upon them to expand the circle of their activities in the Palestinian countryside, that is, confronting soldiers and settlers, cutting off bypass roads and forming popular and self-defense committees. We also call upon them to reinforce the activities of our people in Jerusalem, the capital of our independent state and the starting point of this Intifada of Al Aqsa, of Jerusalem and of our glorious independence.

The national and Islamic forces also call upon our people to reinforce national directives to boycott Zionist Israeli and American products and especially to boycott normalization projects funded by American and Israeli institutions and other funding institutions, which target students, youth and other sectors of our people.

Resisting normalization projects and Israeli and American products requires the reinforcement of initiatives and the investment in the potentials of our youths and students in order to reinforce popular awareness in achieving this boycott. This also requires the cooperation of the chambers of commerce and the ministry of supplies and the ministry trade and economy.

The national and Islamic forces call our people to the following activities:

• Tuesday, 7/11/2000: On the occasion of the Aqsa Intifada’s, 40th day, we call upon our people to participate in marches to reaffirm the continuation of the Intifada and to honor the memory of our people’s martyrs.

• Friday, 10/11/2000: A day of mass marches and demonstrations, as a reaffirmation of the Intifada’s continuation. Slogans should be raised, which demand the convening of an Islamic summit for Arab and Islamic support of the Palestinian people; it should also call upon the summit to sever all political and economic ties with the Israeli enemy in order to eliminate the occupation and to establish our independent state with Jerusalem as its capital.

We also call on our people not to heed to the Zionist enemy’s attempts to ban our people from praying at Al Aqsa mosque, or to limit the number of worshippers. We call upon our people, including the Arab masses inside the Green Line to head to Al Haram to pray.

• Sunday 12/11/2000: Day of solidarity with our courageous people in Bethlehem, Beit Jala and Beit Sahour, who are facing brutal Israeli shelling with an iron will; it will also be a day of marches and demonstrations lead by Muslim and Christian clergy towards Red Cross and United Nations headquarters to demand international protection for our people; to demand a halt to the Zionist aggression and a release of prisoners and detainees in Isareli prisons.

National and Islamic Factions
Palestine
5/11/2000