RAMALLAH, March 25: Sixty leading Palestinian personalities appealed for a "peaceful intifada" in a petition to local newspapers on Thursday.
In the letter published in the Ramallah-based Al Ayyam, the signatories condemned Monday's assassination of Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin".
"We are terribly pained by this tragedy but we appeal to the sons of our people to act in accordance to our national interests and seize the initiative from the hands of the criminal gang of occupiers by relaunching a peaceful, popular intifada with well-defined objectives," said the petition. -AFP
