Twenty-nine years have passed since the signing of the Oslo Accords, which have put the Palestinians, at home and in the diaspora, and their cause in a predicament and brought about more restrictions and pain for them. Thus, the Palestinian cause has been going through difficult stages while the Israeli occupation’s colonial project on our land was flourishing with more colonial settlement expansion and Judaization schemes in Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Moreover, the Oslo Accords have also deepened the tragedy of our people by forcefully displacing them and targeting our Palestinian freedom fighters and activists.

As the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) adopted policies in the path of political compromise and security coordination with the Israeli occupation authorities have failed to meet our people’s aspirations to enjoy their legitimate rights, the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas states the following:

First: the Palestinians’ steadfastness, resilience, sacrifices, and unity behind the comprehensive resistance across the occupied West Bank and 1948 occupied territories, their defence of Jerusalem, and the detainees’ fights against the Israeli occupation all affirm that resistance in all its forms is the most appropriate way to liberation, return, and self-determination.

Second: The PA’s Security coordination with the Zionist enemy and the attacks targeting the Palestinian people and activists who defend their lands and sanctities in the face of the settlement and Judaization schemes, are crimes against national norms and values.

Third: We call on the Palestinian Authority to cancel the Oslo Accords, disengage from its security and economic subordination, and withdraw recognition of this Zionist entity. We also call on the Palestinian factions across Palestine and in the diaspora to rearrange the Palestinian house, reform the Palestine Liberation Organization, and agree on a unified struggle strategy of comprehensive resistance, to confront the Israeli occupation and achieve the aspirations of our people.

Fourth: The efforts of the extremist Israeli government led by Lapid to co-opt the Palestinian Authority and its security services and invite it to participate in the war and aggression against the Palestinian people, after it had failed to achieve its malicious goals in the face of the steadfastness of the Palestinian resistance fighters across the occupied West Bank, is a suspicious act that we warn the Authority against compromising with.

Fifth: We renew our absolute rejection of whatsoever agreements that do not recognize the legitimate rights of our people, foremost among which is their struggle and resistance to defend themselves, their land and their holy sites, and their right to liberation and return.

Sixth: We pray to Allah Almighty to have mercy on the souls of our Palestinian martyrs and grant a speedy recovery to the wounded, and we salute the heroic detainees in the Israeli occupation jails, the Palestinian freedom fighters across Palestine and in the diaspora who are adherent to their rights.

Hamas Movement
Tuesday, 13 September 2022