Following is the statement issued by the National and Islamic Forces on January 6, 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 masses, at the time when the criminal Zionist attacks and aggressions executed by the Zionist occupation army and the settlers'
gangs escalate against our masses, the US-Israeli conspiracy heightens; this conspiracy that aims to drag us into the trap of accepting the US
Proposals which are nothing but a blatant expression of the Zionist scheme that aims to impose on our people surrender and aims to force the
PLO to extinguish the torch of the great Intifada of the Aqsa, Jerusalem, Independence and Return. The National and Islamic Forces affirm on
their constant position that rejects the conspiracy and aggression; the forces stress on the following:

1. Firm rejection to the US Proposals and condemn the proposals and condemn any party that tries to exert pressure on the PLO To accept the Proposals and affirm the position of the Executive Committee which rejected these proposals in principle.
2. Affirm the clinging to the national constants that constitute the basis of our rights, mainly the right of return to the Palestinian refugees to their homes and properties; affirm the Arab and Islamic nature of Jerusalem and reject the fragmentation of this sovereignty over this city which is the eternal capital of the Palestinian state. Reject any concessions on the borders and reject any exchange of lands. Stress on the withdrawal of the occupation army and settlers' gangs from all occupied territories and the establishment of the independent Palestinian state, with al-Quds as its capital.
3. Reject the return to negotiations in the light of the oppressive Zionist aggression and reject any security coordination with the murderers who aim to strike the Intifada and eliminate the cause of our struggling people.
4. Affirm the continuation of the Intifada as a struggle option that develops and escalates through developing its various activities.

The National and Islamic Forces call upon our masses to work towards achieving the following activities:

1. Sunday, January 7, 2001, to mark the anniversary of the Palestinian Martyr. The Forces call upon the masses to devote this day to visits to the tombs of martyrs and visit their families.
2. To declare Monday, January 8, 2001, a day of the Right of Return, a day for broad and wide mass movements in which the Palestinian people wherever they are can express their comprehensive national consensus on clinging to the right of the Palestinian refugees to return to the homes and properties in Palestine from which they were evicted since this is a right that cannot be touched and call upon the teachers to devote a special class to talk about the right of return and Jerusalem.
3. To organize mass festivals and rallies on Wednesday, January 10, 2001, to express the Palestinian people rejection to the US Proposals and stress on the national constants and on the continuation of the Intifada.
4. Friday, January 12, 2001, a day of Jerusalem, a day of massive marches to affirm the Arab and Islamic nature of the city and reject the US-Zionist attempts to fragment the sovereignty over Jerusalem and Aqsa and call upon the masses including the Palestinians inside the Green Line to come and pray at the Aqsa Mosque.

Victory to the Intifada and Defeat to the Conspiracy
Glory and Eternity to our Martyrs
Recovery to the heroic wounded and Freedom to the Courageous Prisoners
It is an Intifada till Victory