DFLP calls Fatah-Hamas dialogue in Cairo a monoploy on power

DFLP criticizes Hamas and Fatah for excluding other factions from talks

Date: 27 / 04 / 2009  Time:  09:53

Gaza – Ma’an – The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) criticized major factions Hamas and Fatah for excluding other parties from the latest round of unity talks, which begins on Monday. “Bilateral dialogue means monopoly and exclusion of others. It is a call by Hamas and Fatah to divide authority amongst themselves, excluding other components of the Palestinian people both inside and in Diaspora,” the movement said in a statement issued from Gaza. The statement also cited past bilateral agreements in its critique, noting that the 2007 Hamas-Fatah unity government collapsed a few months later into bloody infighting. “They are reproducing disagreement in a way which will be worse than what happened on 8 February 2007 when ‘civil war’ erupted between Fatah and Hamas, and Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip by military force,” the statement read. The DFLP called for comprehensive national dialogue based on the 2005 Cairo declaration, and the Palestinian prisoners’ document in addition to new elections on the basis of proportional representation.

DFLP’s National Resistance Brigades seeks to unify Palestinian military wings into a single army

DFLP: Palestinian fighters unite

Date: 12 / 02 / 2009  Time:  14:24

Gaza – Ma’am – The military wing of the leftist Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) called on Thursday for the creation of a unified Palestinian military front to confront Israeli incursions. National Resistance Brigades said in a statement, “the Brigades proposed to establish one united brigade and they are keen to make it happen to oppose the Israeli troops and all their aggression.” The group said that Palestinian resistance fighters had “learned lessons” from the three-week Israeli offensive on Gaza in December and January.

Five Palestinian factions agree to Feb. 5 truce with Israel, Palestinian reconciliation talks to begin Feb. 22

Egypt Wants Long-Term Gaza Truce to Start February 5

26/01/2009 Egypt has proposed that a yet to be agreed truce between Israel and Palestinian factions in Gaza begin on February 5, a Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine official declared on Monday.        DFLP official Saleh Zaidan said Egypt, which has been mediating truce talks between Israel, Hamas and several Palestinian factions, would continue discussions to shore up the ceasefire before February 5.    “The truce will encompass the opening of passages (into Gaza) and will be between Israel and the five main Palestinian factions,” Zaidan said, meaning Fatah, Hamas, the DFLP, the Popular Front of the Liberation of Palestine and Islamic Jihad. He added that Egypt has proposed that Palestinian reconciliation talks begin on February 22.    Israeli and Hamas officials have visited Cairo for talks with Egyptian officials since their ceasefires came into effect on January 18. Hamas has said it is mulling an Israeli proposal for an 18-month renewable ceasefire.    Hamas insists that Israel and Egypt open their passages into the Gaza Strip. Israel has said it would not open the crossings if Hamas did not release an Israeli soldier it captured more than two years ago. Egypt has also refused to permanently open its Rafah border crossing with Gaza in the absence of Palestinian Authority president Mahmud Abbas’s representatives at the crossing.

Palestinian factions declare victory, resistance to continue until Israel withdraws from Gaza, opens Rafa crossing

 

Palestinian factions give Israel 1 week to meet their demands

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Olmert’s “ceasefire” speech is a declaration of defeat

Source: PFLP Press Office

The “ceasefire” speech by Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert on January 17, 2009 is a declaration of defeat, said the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in a press statement, noting that halting the airstrikes and keeping the Israeli occupation army troops on the ground is not a “ceasefire” and stating that the occupation forces will be a continual target for the resistance so long as they are in Gaza.

Comrade Dr. Maher al-Taher, member of the Political Bureau of the PFLP and leader of its branch in exile, said in an interview with Al-Jazeera that “the criminal Olmert’s speech is a speech of defeat, and is a great victory for the resistance and for the steadfastness of our people in the Gaza Strip.” He stressed that this is a historical achievement for the Palestinian people and called for building upon this victory for the next stage of fighting back against the occupier.

Comrade Taher said, the enemy occupied our land in six days in 1967, but today they fail to occupy a corner of Gaza City, and this is a new stage and a tribute to the steadfastness of our people and our resistance. We must draw lessons from these accomplishments—that our clear political line and our national unity can be achieved on the basis of the continuation of the resistance and a political strategy that ends all reliance on the United States, Annapolis, the roadmap and Oslo, and all illegitimate and empty agreements with the occupation. Our people instead need a clear strategy based on our Palestinian national principles as raised by Palestinian prisoners in their national reconciliation document.

He noted further that the building of the massive of international popular solidarity and support for the Palestinian people, particularly as the brutality and crimes of the occupation has been revealed, has been a major force in support of our people, and that the people of the world are rejecting the occupier, rejecting Zionism, and rejecting this system as unacceptable, illegitimate and criminal.

Comrade Taher concluded by saying that the steadfastness of our people in Gaza sent a clear message to the leaders of Zionist terrorism, the official Arab regimes and the entire world that the will of our people has not been broken, and it cannot be defeated nor will it abandon the resistance under any circumstances.

The PFLP also condemned the so-called “memorandum of understanding” between the U.S. and Israel, saying that the occupier is only talking to itself, and that this is an “agreement” between strategic partners in the enemy camp. It stated further that this agreement is a new aggression against the Palestinian and Arab peoples, which aims to deny their right to defend themselves and resist occupation and aggression, and furthermore, to deny Arab sovereignty over our own borders and our own land. ▪

DFLP: Israeli ceasefire proves strength of Brigades; unity behind resisters essential

SALFIT, West Bank, Palestine, Jan. 18 (Ma’an)—Olmert’s decision to call a unilateral ceasefire shows the endurance of the resistance factions against the Israeli invasion into Gaza, said a Sunday statement from the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP).

The ceasefire is the result of the “legendary endurance of the Palestinian people in Gaza Strip and the worldwide reaction which has pressured the Israeli government,” said the statement.

The document affirmed that without an Israeli withdrawal from the Strip than factions would never agree to a ceasefire, and further demand that the borders to the strip remain open for goods and citizens.

The DFLP said that Palestinian unity behind the resistance is essential in the coming days, and noted that the party is working on forming a common political leadership that includes all parties and factions that maintain resistance as their goal.

Shallah: World failed to check Israeli arrogance but resistance did

DOHA, Qatar, Jan. 18 (PIC)—Ramadan Shallah, the secretary general of the Islamic Jihad Movement, has asserted that the Israeli occupation forces and leadership had failed in achieving any of their declared aims of the war on Gaza.

Shallah, in a press statement commenting on Israeli premier Ehud Olmert’s address in which he declared aunilateral ceasefire in Gaza, said that Olmert had failed in changing the de facto situation in Gaza, which is ending the Hamas rule. He also failed in halting the firing of rockets from the Strip, Shallah added.

The Jihad leader said that despite the fact that his Movement was not participating in the Hamas government in Gaza “we declare that the Hamas government is the legitimately elected government in Gaza”.

He said that Olmert’s statement that the decision was taken in response to an Egyptian request constituted an offense to Egypt because it indicated that Egypt was capable since the start of the aggression to stop it but it did not.

The world has failed to check the “Zionist entity’s arrogance” but he Palestinian resistance stood fast and refused to bow to Olmert’s conditions, Shallah elaborated.

He underlined that the continued presence of IOF troops in Gaza after the ceasefire declaration would make them targets for the resistance until the departure of the last soldier from Gaza lands.

Another Jihad leader, Sheikh Khader Habib, stressed that his Movement would continue to resist IOF soldiers as long as they remained in Gaza and as long as the siege on Gaza persisted.

He said that Olmert’s ceasefire declaration did not concern his Movement because it was unilateral, adding that the IOF did not achieve anything in its campaign against Gaza except killing hundreds of children and women.

MILITARY REPORT

PFLP Press Office

PFLP forces mourn Comrade Banar and affirm resistance will continue until occupation ends

The Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, the armed wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, announced on January 16, 2009 that Comrade Commander Ashraf Ribhi Banar, fell in the battlefield while defending his people in Gaza.

Comrade Banar demonstrated heroism on many occasions, and was in charge of the missile unit in the eastern Gaza area. Comrade Banar carried out a heroic operation utilizing a B-27 shell against the occupation tanks, in which a tank was a destroyed and several occupation soldiers were killed and wounded.

AAMB immediately responded with a barrage of rocket fire, launching 6 Grad rockets toward Bir Saba and Nafa, and 7 Sumoud missiles toward Sderot, the Western Naqab and occupied Asqalan.

Glory to our comrade! Victory is ours!

Responding to Olmert’s speech

Our armed forces responded to Olmert’s deceptive statement of January 19, 2009 about stopping airstrikes while maintaining occupation forces, by stating that these occupation ground forces will be met with missiles, explosive devices, bombs, snipers, B-27 anti tank weapons and all of the forces at our disposal.

The missiles and rockets will not stop, and our forces immediately announced the launching of Sumoud rockets against the occupier following Olmert’s speech in defiance of the continued threats of the occupier and demonstrating the steadfast continuation of our resistance. Any ground forces in Gaza, left behind as a defeated army, will be met with force and resistance until the Zionist invaders are swept away and Gaza is sovereign.

Towards victory!

Military factions continue to launch projectiles at Israeli targets

GAZA, Palestine, Jan. 18 (Ma’an)—Palestinian military factions continued to launch projectiles at Israeli targets Sunday, and Israeli troops responded to fire in the Strip despite the unilateral Israeli announcement of a ceasefire in the area.

The Hizbullah Brigades in Palestine said they launched three projectiles towards Sderot and the western Negev. They are calling their projectile blitz the “Blaze of Gaza,” said a statement from the group Sunday.

Al-Quds Brigades claims to have killed 18 soldiers in 22 days

Gaza, Palestine, Jan. 18 (Ma’an)—Islamic Jihad’s Al-Quds Brigades lost 34 fighters during the Israeli onslaught in Gaza and launched 262 projectiles at Israeli targets, according to their spokesperson on Sunday.

Of the more than 1,300 Palestinians killed by Israeli fire, 34 Al-Quds Brigades fighters and leaders were killed. A statement said those who died were prepared to engage in “fierce” battles with Israeli troops.

Of the projectiles launched, said the spokesperson, 158 were at Ashkelon, Sderot, Kfar Azza, Nahal Oz, Nir Oz, Be’eri, Nirim, Miftahim and Eshkol. They claimed to have injured 16 Israeli “settlers” in the attacks and caused structural damage to homes and public properties.

The Brigades said they fired 77 mortars at Megan, Kissufim and gatherings of armored vehicles in the north-central and southeast areas of Gaza, injuring a number of Israeli soldiers.

There were 27 RPGs and 32 explosive charges detonated at armored vehicles and undercover units of the Israeli army, according to the Brigades.

Seven Israeli soldiers were shot, and at least 18 killed and 56 injured as the Brigades detonated explosives in homes where troops were taking cover, the Brigades spokesperson said. There was no way to independently verify the claims.

The Israeli military insists just 10 soldiers were killed in the Gaza fighting.
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Lebanese President Michel Suleiman meets DFLP delegation

Suleiman Urges Palestinians to Unify Ranks

President Michel Suleiman on Monday urged Palestinian factions to unify their ranks, recalling that Hizbullah’s resistance enjoyed state backing while confronting Israel in 2006.

Suleiman, addressing a delegation from Nayef Hawatmeh’s Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), said Lebanon is not against better living conditions for Palestinian refugees.“This requires cooperation between the state and the Palestinians, starting with implementing what Lebanese leaders had agreed on during dialogue sessions, especially what is related to eliminating Palestinian military bases outside refugee camps,” Suleiman added.

He said all the Lebanese People “sympathize with the cause of Palestine” and expressed hope that a cease-fire could be reached in Gaza prior to the Arab Economic Summit in Kuwait.

“Israel should halt its aggression and withdraw from Gaza immediately,” Suleiman stressed.

Military Report: Palestinian resistance hits occupation forces in Ashkelon, Sufa, Zekim, and elswhere

Palestinian factions launch more attacks on Israeli targets

Date: 11 / 01 / 2009  Time:  21:27

Bethlehem – Ma’an – Armed Palestinian factions continued firing projectiles on Israeli towns from the Gaza Strip on Sunday, claiming responsibility for a number of attacks. In statements to Ma’an, Islamic Jihad’s Al-Quds Brigades claimed responsibility for shelling the Israeli military post of Nahal Oz with three projectiles. Al-Quds said an assembly of armored vehicles southeast of the evacuated settlement of Netzarim in central Gaza was the prime target of a second assault, which saw four mortar shells launched from Gaza. Meanwhile, Al-Quds, along with another group affiliated with Fatah, claimed joined responsibility for shelling armored vehicles in the Al-A’tatarah area of Gaza. They hit Nitzarim with four other shells earlier in the day, according to their statement. Each of the concerned groups said in a statement that the shelling came in response to “Israeli atrocities in Gaza,” and to ensure that resistance “remains an option.” The An-Nasser Brigades, which is affiliated with the Popular Resistance Committees, told Ma’an they hit Ashkelon with a Grad missile and fired two RPGs and seven other projectiles at Israeli armored vehicles advancing on Ash-Shuje’eiyah. Two other mortars hit the Sufa military post east of Rafah. An-Nasser also claimed to have targeted Israeli warships off the coast of Gaza “with heavy fire.” Al-Aqsa Brigades, Fatah’s armed wing, claimed responsibility for shelling Eshkol with two projectiles and for shelling the Zekim military post with two other projectiles, as well as attacks that hit armored vehicles in Netzarim. The National Resistance Brigades, an armed wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), claimed responsibility for sheling Kfar Sa’d and Kfar Aza with two improvised projectiles. The Fatah-affiliated group also claimed responsibility for detonating a 10-kilogram explosive charge near a military jeep near Adureem in the southern West Bank city of Hebron on Sunday, “injuring a number of Israeli soldiers.” The group said the attack was “in response to the Israeli crimes in Gaza,” according to a statement.