BEIRUT, (PIC)
The Palestinian National Popular Action Committee issued a statement on Friday on the 78th anniversary of Nakba affirming that its repercussions are still felt in our present days.
Here follows the text of the statement:
“On the seventy-eighth anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, the Palestinian National Coordinating Body for Popular Action affirms that the Nakba is not merely a painful memory, but an ongoing crime and a continuing settler-colonial project, whose tools are being renewed today through the genocide in Gaza, ethnic cleansing, the escalation of settlement expansion, the Judaization of Jerusalem, the targeting of the right of return, and attempts to dismantle UNRWA and eradicate the Palestinian cause in all its national and political dimensions.
What is taking place today is not a new chapter separate from the Nakba, but rather a continuation of the very same settler-colonial project; the methods may change, but the objective remains the same: to uproot the Palestinian people from their land and eliminate their national rights.
At this stage, our Palestinian people are facing one of the most dangerous conspiracies in modern history, as they confront systematic attempts to break their will, erase their rights, and liquidate their cause under the cover of war, displacement, siege, and dubious settlement deals, amid blatant international complicity, shameful silence, and every form of political collusion targeting Palestine, its land, people, identity, and rights.
While the Committee condemns all those who participate in, remain silent about, or gamble on projects aimed at liquidating the Palestinian cause, it affirms that Palestine is not a bargaining chip, that the right of return cannot be erased, and that Jerusalem is neither a cause to be Judaized nor one open to compromise. The blood of our people and their sacrifices are greater than all narrow calculations and suspicious agendas.
Today, national duty requires the mobilization of all Palestinian and Arab energies, along with the support of free people around the world, in the battle to defend the Palestinian presence and strengthen our people’s steadfastness on their land in the face of the occupation and its supporters, to defeat all projects of displacement and liquidation, and to uphold the full and inalienable historic national rights of the Palestinian people.
The Nakba will remain a witness to the crime, just as our people will remain a testament to the fact that Palestine is neither forgotten, nor for sale, nor to be erased, and that the determination to liberate the land and achieve return is stronger than all conspiracies.”