Shallah, Zahar, and Hindi Affirm No Recognition of Israel, No Giving Up of the Palestinian Right of Return

Zahhar and Al-Hindi: "No recognition of Israel; no giving up the right of return"

Date: 14 / 05 / 2008 Time: 15:38
Gaza - Ma'an –

Senior Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahhar demanded the recognition of the right of return for Palestinian refugees, and the importance of 'not recognizing Israel' in light of the dispossession of the Palestinians.

Zahhar was speaking at the beginning of a conference marking the 60th year of Palestinian exile in Gaza. He said that Israel "is doomed" and that Palestinians will win their rights, including the right to return, through resistance.

Zahhar harshly criticized US President George Bush's visit to Israel this week to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the county's founding.

He said that Palestinian land "is not for sale" and the right of return is sacred. He also said that the resistance will erase the Israeli occupation as it had done to other empires.

Zahhar called on the Arab states to support the Palestinian people.

With regard to Palestinian prisoners, Zahhar said in a message, "We will not surrender to cheap blackmail regardless of the consequences. We will protect the land with our bare bodies because we are its indigenous inhabitants who will serve it and water it with our blood."

The Vice President of the Gaza conference, Islamic Jihad leader Muhammad Al-Hindi said, "The Palestinian people will not beg for a ceasefire and they can bear double suffering than the occupation can. This heavily-armed entity can't endure a small confrontation with resistance fighters."

Commenting on Bush's visit to Israel, Al-Hindi said, "At these moments, the one responsible for killing thousands of innocent children in Iraq and Afghanistan came to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the establishment of Israel. This is the anniversary of killing and displacing the Palestinian people and planting that entity in the heart of the Arab nation over the debris of Palestine and its people."

He added, "The US president will stand up in the Israeli Knesset tomorrow to distribute awards and pledges. He will deny the right of return of Palestinian refugees. He will reject removal of Israeli settlements from the West Bank. He will talk about Jerusalem as the united capital of Israeli occupation."

Shallah: Oslo was more catastrophic than the Nakba of Palestine

[ 14/05/2008 - 10:26 AM ]
GAZA, (PIC)--

Dr. Ramadhan Abdullah Shallah, the secretary-general of the Islamic Jihad Movement, stated Tuesday that the Oslo agreement was more catastrophic than the Nakba (catastrophe) itself that befell on the Palestinian people in 1948.

These remarks were made in a speech delivered by Dr. Shallah in Gaza in the presence of the political leadership of the Islamic Jihad and Palestinian masses who gathered to commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the Nakba of Palestine.

The Islamic Jihad leader lashed out strongly at some Arab regimes, without naming them, and accused them of being allies of the Israeli occupation through turning their backs to the Palestinian people and achieving everything Israel wished since the beginning of the Nakba.

Shallah expressed his regret and dismay at the participation of some Arab leaders in Israel's celebrations of its occupation of Palestine through sending their greetings to Israel for the establishment of its entity at the expense of the Palestinian people and their rights.

He also castigated the signatories to Oslo on behalf of the Palestinian people, saying that even more serious than the Nakba they waived, through their signing of this agreement, the Palestinian lands at the pretext that the balance of power was unequal.

The Jihad leader underlined that the national project that was initiated by the PLO had ended with the death of late president Yasser Arafat.

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