In just a two weeks of fighting, more than 160 people were killed, including 39 uninvolved bystanders.
For renouncing any part of Palestine means renouncing part of the religion; the nationalism of the Islamic Resistance Movement is part of its faith, the movement educates its members to adhere to its principles and to raise the banner of Allah over their homeland as they fight their Jihad… …There is no solution to the Palestinian problem except by Jihad.
They had stopped a bus carrying Islamic activists who wanted to join the battle against Fatah at Birzeit.