Islamic groups vow to continue armed resistance

Radical Islamic groups have vowed to continue their armed resistance to Israeli occupation, following a peace summit in Jordan…

Radical Islamic groups have vowed to continue their armed resistance to Israeli occupation, following a peace summit in Jordan today.

The radical Islamic Jihad group said "resistance will continue as long as the occupation persists here."

Hamas said it would "stand by the Palestinian people and by the gun".

"We won't allow anyone to give up a parcel of our land," Hamas leader Abdelaziz Rantissi said.

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Palestinian prime minister Mr Mahmud Abbas pledged full efforts to end the armed uprising against Israeli occupation following the Jordan summit. The summit was designed to realise the details of a plan contained in the internationally back "road map" for peace.

"We will exert our full efforts using all our resources to end the militarisation of the intifada, and we will succeed," Mr Abbas said, in a forceful declaration promising to meet Israeli and US demands.

"The armed intifada must end, and we must resort to peaceful means in our quest to end the occupation, the suffering of the Palestinians and the Israelis, and to establish our Palestinian state."