GAZA, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- A new Palestinian militant group named" Hezbollah Brigades in Palestine" declared its establishment in the Palestinian territories to fight against Israel, a statement by the group said Saturday.

    The statement, which could not be verified immediately, said the group's goals are to "carry out Jihad for the sake of Allah and to resist the enemies of Islam."

    The statement said the new group was established "after some ofthe factions gave up the militant work against the Israeli occupation," implicitly referring to Islamic Hamas movement which preserves an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire with Israel since June this year.

    "We are a Sunni Jihad group which has nothing to do with the politics," said the statement, adding the group "will not exceed the general interest."

    The members of the new factions are former members of the different Palestinian groups such as Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the leftist parties, said the statement.

    The group denied any link with the Lebanese group of Hezbollah "except the common factor of being Islamic resistance and the loveof the Hezbollah's way of resistance."

    The statement also said the Palestinian Hezbollah "supports theefforts to strike a national reconciliation" between Hamas and Fatah.