Palestinian national forces hold mass rally in Al-Yarmouk” Camp in Damascus marking Land Day
The Palestinian factions and national work forces on Friday commemorated Land Day by holding a mass rally in Al-Yarmouk” Camp in Damascus.
Participants in the rally called for creating a national resistance front against the Israeli occupation aggressive policies and for forming an Arab front to resist normalization in all parts of the Arab homeland.
The participants affirmed that the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) is the only legitimate representative of the Palestinian people through its national charter which reiterates that Palestine is the homeland of the Palestinian people and an integral part of the Arab homeland.
They stressed the need to immediately end the state of division among the Palestinian factions through unifying the Palestinian people in the face of the occupation.
In a speech, Secretary of the Damascus Countryside branch of the Baath Arab Socialist Party Radwan Mustafa said that Land Day is an incentive for the Palestinian freedom fighters to adhere to the national identity and liberate the occupied Arab territories. He pointed that the unity of the Palestinian people and the resistance are the way to preserve rights, liberate the occupied lands and establish the Palestinian state with Al-Quds as its capital.
On his part, the Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Sebastia in Al-Quds Atallah Hanna said in a recorded speech that the unity of the Palestinian people has become a national and strategic demand to strengthen the Palestinians in defense of rights and principles and in the confrontation of the conspiracies and challenges.
The Palestinians commemorate Land Day on March 30th as an expression of their adherence to their land and national identity. The events of this Day date back to the year 1976, when demonstrations swept across Palestinian cities and villages in protest against the occupation authorities’ seizure of 21,000 dunums of Galilee land in the Palestinian territories occupied in 1948. The occupation forces suppressed the demonstrations and shot dead a number of Palestinians and wounded and arrested hundreds others.
Hamda Mustafa