Militant Palestinian groups vow to avenge “Israel” massacres

Source: AFP, 23-6-2006
RAMALLAH, West Bank - Palestinian militant groups have severed their commitment to a de facto truce in anti-"Israeli" attacks in order to avenge "massacres" committed by "Israel".
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, loosely affiliated to president Mahmud Abbas`s Fatah party and the armed wing of the governing Hamas were among those groups that delivered the announcement at a news conference in the West Bank.
Militants from the armed wing of Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine were also at the conference in the town of Ramallah.
"We have decided to tell the occupier `no more truce from today` in response to the bloodletting our women, our children and our elderly," Ramzi Obeid, from the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, told reporters on behalf of the four groups.
"We will not suffer your repeated crimes in silence. We are going to destroy you and no one can stop us, if you do not stop these massacres against our people," he added.
Fourteen Palestinian civilians, including a pregnant woman and five children, have died in "Israeli" air strikes over the Gaza Strip in the last 10 days.
"Israel" has vowed to continue its campaign of air attacks, intended as executions as the best means to stop rocket attacks.
A unilateral and de facto Palestinian truce in attacks on "Israeli" targets officially expired at the end of 2005 but the majority of armed groups have bowed to demands from Abbas to continue to observe a so-called cool down.
As a result, there has been a marked reduction if not complete halt in such attacks since early 2005.