Document: Complete Text of Hamas/Islamic Jihad Declaration

Aaron Lerner Date: 29 June 2003

IMRA has obtained a translation the complete official Arabic text:

STATEMENT OF INITIATIVE

Out of our desire for the unity of the Palestinian ranks at this dangerous
phase which our people and our cause are going through, and in order to
protect our national unity achieved through the intifada and the resistance
and documented by the blood of the martyrs, and as our contribution to
consolidating Palestinian national dialogue on the basis of adherence to the
rights of our people, and in order to protect our internal front from the
danger of schism and confrontation, and in order to prevent the enemy from
having any excuse to wreck it, and in an assertion of the legitimate right
to resist the occupation as a strategic option until the end of the Zionist
occupation of our homeland and until we achieve all our national rights, and
in response to efforts by many in the Palestinian and Arab arena who care
about the unity of the Palestinian national ranks, we declare the following
initiative:

A. Suspension of the military operations against the Zionist enemy for three
months, effective today, in return for the following conditions:

1. An immediate cessation of all forms of Zionist aggression against our
Palestinian people including incursions, demolitions, closures and sieges on
cities, villages and refugee camps. This includes the siege imposed on
President Yasser Arafat, house demolitions, levelling of agricultural land
and assaults against land, property and Christian and Islamic holy sites,
especially the holy Al-Aqsa Mosque. In addition, the immediate cessation of
all individual assassination operations, massacres, all arrests and
deportations against our people, leaders, cadres and fighters.

2. The release of all prisoners and detainees, Palestinian and Arab, from
occupation prisons without condition or restriction and the return to their
homes first and foremost of those who have spent long periods and those with
lengthy sentences, women, children, the sick and elderly.

B. In the event that the enemy does not heed these conditions and
commitments, or breaches any of them, we see ourselves unencumbered by this
initiative and we hold the enemy responsible for the consequences.
Hamas (Islamic Resistance Movement) Islamic Jihad

29.6.2003

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