6 December 2002

In the name of Allah the most Gracious the most Merciful

No to those who tamper with unity of the Palestinian people

Our intifada and resistance masses:

A roguish group is insisting on dragging the Palestinian people into a dangerous strife that would serve the Zionist scheme of liquidating the intifada and paralyzing resistance. However, “… but Allah will not allow but that His Light should be perfected,” and this mischievous group will not succeed in dragging us into the swamp of civil war. But it has to realize quite well that our people are highly conscious and that “the sun of truth would not be hidden by a sieve of fabrications and lies”, as the Arab saying goes.

Our Palestinian people’s masses:

We are still exercising self-restraint and insist on avoiding the publication of names of the killers who are affiliated with Fatah. And we realize that Fatah knows them and knows all of this stray group’s feverish attempts to spread dissention topped by publishing names of innocent Muslim youths as the killers, voicing insults in the streets and charges against the Mujahid Islamic Movement, which offered best of its youths in defense of the people and country, of collaboration and finally attacking houses and institutions.

This group that falsely accused Hamas leaders and Mujahideen and rode the Zionist plot would not succeed in its conspiracy against unity of this people and their intifada and resistance.

This gang has killed martyrs Essam Ghaban and his son Allam and wounded the child Abdul Rahman Ahmed then fired at dawn Thursday at houses of Hamas leaders and Mujahideen then on Friday fired machineguns at house of Eng. Ismail Abu Shanab, one of the Hamas leaders. The gang carried out such practice in an attempt to complete the circle of Zionist vicious plot to drive a wedge in lines of the Palestinians and to wipe out the blessed intifada. The gang also directed threats to sons of the respected families: Siyam, Zaghra, Dababish, Ghandour and Abdullah trying to accuse their relatives of the murder so as to save members of the gang from responsibility.

Our people’s masses:

We believe that the secret of our strength is in our unity, consequently we are keen on maintaining dialogue with Fatah Movement and we will remain absolutely keen on retaining the cohesion. However, brothers in Fatah must clearly declare their position towards that criminal group that is acting in the name of Fatah. If this group is affiliated with Fatah then Fatah should deter it, but if it is not affiliated with Fatah then Fatah must dissociate itself from it. It is not reasonable to leave this group igniting strife and killing Palestinian innocents endlessly.

Our heroic masses:

In the name of you all, we demand execution of those who killed the martyrs Essam Ghaban and his son Allam so as to hold back the death squad that slaughtered Palestinians in Palestine Mosque, Islamic University, Jabaliya and Palestine roundabout.

Executing the killers has become a national request and duty as well as being a religious obligation.

To the Palestinian masses from the (Mediterranean) Sea to the (Jordan) River … our guns will remain directed at the enemy but we will not allow the rouges to drag the people into the quagmire of internal fighting and we will not remain silent vis-à-vis their crimes.

And it is a Jihad until either victory or martyrdom

The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas
Friday 2^nd Shawwal 1423H
6^th December 2002AD