Nakba Day

Palestinians mark anniversary of Nakba in shadow of Gaza war

‘Nakba never ended, it continues as we see livestreamed in Gaza today’

There are hundreds of reports on Nakba day.  This is but two.  Not again!, say the people, and not again, say I.

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Ismail Haniyeh, the Head of the Political Bureau of Hamas, in his speech today, May 15th, 2024 (3/3):

We salute our lions behind the bars of captivity who are facing the fiercest campaign of oppression by this criminal zionist government, which torments our prisoners day and night, depriving them of their basic human rights, in addition to various forms of torture and medical neglect.

The world has been exposed to the criminal practices of the occupation in secret detention centers (https://t.me/PalestineResist/39032), where all kinds of atrocities, physical and psychological torture, and executions against detainees from Gaza are committed.

We have prepared a file on the assaults on prisoners and have begun to deliver it to international, regional, and human rights institutions.

I say to our brave prisoners, “With hardship comes ease, and the dawn of freedom is coming. Al-Aqsa Flood will bring you freedom, God willing.”

The fronts of resistance are writing the covenant with Palestine in the ink of blood in southern Lebanon through the honorable resistance led by our brothers in Hezbollah, the Palestinian resistance, and the Islamic Group, from the authentic and firm front of Yemen and in proud Iraq. We also highly appreciate the blow dealt by the Islamic Republic of Iran to the zionist enemy, and how it demonstrated this enemy’s need for protection.

It is a great honor for the youth of this nation to participate in this overwhelming flood in support of Al-Quds, Gaza, and Palestine. “March forth, whether light or heavy, and strive with your wealth and lives in the cause of Allah.”

We highly appreciate all the positions that support our people and their right to freedom, return, independence, and stopping the aggression on Gaza, particularly the decisions taken by Turkey to halt trade (https://t.me/PalestineResist/37982) with the occupying state and join (https://thecradle.co/articles/turkiye-to-join-genocide-case-against-israel-at-icj-fm) the lawsuit filed at the International Court of Justice in The Hague. We also appreciate the positions of Egypt (https://t.me/PalestineResist/39325) and Libya (https://t.me/PalestineResist/39132) in joining this lawsuit.

We are witnessing an unprecedented scene in history, with students from around the world in America, Europe, Australia, Japan, and elsewhere supporting the Palestinian cause and showing solidarity with our people in Gaza against the usurping entity, adopting our people’s demands for freedom and independence over the entire occupied Palestinian land. They are calling to stop the genocide against our people in Gaza, halt the export of weapons to this entity, and demanding their universities end their universities’ investments in the entity.

It is Gaza that has become the icon for the youth of the world in all movements. It is Gaza that has toppled the zionist narrative, revealing the true and bloodthirsty nature of this occupier.

It is Gaza that has reunited the nation around Palestine, embodying the unity of the fields in the Axis of Resistance, unleashing all pent-up and repressed emotions, and providing a broad horizon for rewriting history and drawing the maps of political geography.

Imagine how Netanyahu stood on the UN platform before the Al-Aqsa Flood, raising the map of Palestine as if it were the map of “israel,” claiming that there is no Palestine or Palestinian state. But after the Flood, the representative of the entity stood on the same UN platform, after 143 countries voted in favor of the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with Al-Quds as its capital, raising the picture (https://t.me/QudsN/405115) of our beloved fighter brother Abu Ibrahim Yahya Sinwar.

These are the major changes created by our people in Gaza—their men, women, children, martyrs, wounded, prisoners, their tents, their endurance of hunger and hardship, their heroes in the fields and axes of resistance and combat.