Ramallah: Commenting on the criminal escalation of massacres by the Zionist unity government in the last two days, and the falling of dozens of our people as martyrs, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine has said in a statement that the fascist massacres will never break the will of our people and its heroic resistance. They will never deter them from continuing the option of intifada and resistance.
Their resistance struggle has recently escalated and taken on qualitatively new features that have put Sharon's choice of using military and security means to stamp out the resistance in a genuinely tight spot and caused him to lose control. The Israeli street understands that Sharon's approach has failed.
The Popular Front statement appealed to the masses of our people to rally more closely around the resistance and its escalation. That is the shortest and the guaranteed path to expelling the occupation and to seizing back our people's rights of return, freedom, and independence.
The statement called on the Palestine Authority to cancel the existing State of Emergency and all the political arrests and closures of offices that have been based upon it. The PFLP calls on the Palestine Authority to declare that it is in confrontation with the Zionist massacres and to take immediate steps to form armed national defense committees for comprehensive national steadfastness now that Sharon's fascism has been unleashed. This will enable our people to dig in to defend themselves and the rights from which they have been robbed.
The Popular Front statement called on the masses of our Arab Nation to move, to pressure the official Arab regimes into shouldering their Arab national responsibility regarding the massacres that are being committed against the people of Palestine. These crimes are aimed at imposing conditions of surrender upon us. The Popular Front statement underlined the call on the United Nations Organization to provide temporary international protection for our people.
Central Information Department Press Office Palestine 20 February 2002.