On May 5, 2011, a day after the signing of a Fatah-Hamas reconciliation agreement, the
shari'a council of the Gaza-based jihadi organization Jama'at Al-Tawhid Wal-Jihad issued a statement on the jihadi forum Shumukh Al-Islam calling the agreement null and void. It pointed out that the agreement was based on man-made laws rather than on the Koran and Sunna, and thereby contradicted the
shari'a.
Jama'at Al-Tawhid condemned the fact that the agreement was grounded on international pacts and laws and that it had been signed under the auspices of the Egyptian security apparatuses, which, it said, fought Islam. It concluded by pointing out that the Fatah-Hamas agreement involved recognition of a Jewish presence on Islamic land, despite the fact that no one was authorized to give up Islamic land.
