The PCP firmly condemns the criminal assassination of the Hamas leader, regardless of the assessments, which may be made regarding that organization, and hols Ariel Sharon fascistic government responsible for the escalation of violence and terror, which can be expected. This terrorist operation in which other Palestinians have lost their lives, is a crime and a premeditated provocation that may have the most serious consequences.

The PCP demands that the Portuguese government clearly and unequivocally condemns the Israeli government’s terrorist policies and tales political and diplomatic steps seeking its isolation and international condemnation. It is inadmissible that the European Union does not suspend its Association Agreement with Israel, in a context of such blatant and frontal violation of International Law and if the most elementary human rights.

The PCP confirms its active solidarity with the Palestinian people’s liberation struggle, with the PLO, with the Palestinian National Authority and its Chairman, who continues to practically held captive and is under a permanent death treat.

The PCP calls on the workers, on the Portuguese people, the youth so that in the most diversified forms they may express their repudiation for Ariel Sharon’s criminal policies and the construction of the Zionist Wall, and to assert their solidarity with the Palestinian people and the struggle for their independent and sovereign state on Palestinian soil.