Camps, displacement and their impact on Palestinian society and its culture in a symposium

Damascus (ST):  The displacement of the Palestinian people as a result of the Zionist occupation and its impact on the structure of society in the occupied territories and in  the diaspora and the reality of the Palestinian refugee camps are the axes tackled in the symposium held by the Arab Writers Union in Damascus.

The symposium was attended by a number of researchers who made interventions about the suffering of the Palestinian people and their stay in the camps after the Zionist entity expelled them and the reflection of what happened on their thought, education and culture.

Secretary General of the Palestinian Popular Struggle Front Khaled Abdel Majid referred to the interconnectedness of the Syrian and Palestinian struggle in all the difficulties that are going on, stressing that the Palestinian refugee constitutes the core of the issue and the essence of the struggle with the occupation.

Researcher Mohammad Al-Buhaisi, head of the Palestinian-Iranian Friendship Society, stated that the tragedy of the Palestinian people was embodied in the camp and turned into glory and rejection of death and resulted in cases of cultural and literary distinction and creativity, especially in Syria, because the Palestinian refugees were granted the rights to a decent life that they were denied in other countries.

Researcher Ali Badwan explained that the Palestinian people are facing the harshest types of conspiracy and have  a victim of the Zionist settlement project in light of the complicity of several regimes and an attempt to deny that Palestine belongs to the Palestinian people.

 In a statement, the head of the Arab Writers Union, Dr. Mohammad Hourani, said, “The expansion of cultural activities in the Palestinian camps is an urgent necessity that seeks to develop the sense of resistance and raise the morale because the Palestinian who resorts to the camp is the first to have the right to return to his usurped land.”

 In his intervention, researcher Dr. Khalaf Al-Muftah, Director of Al-Quds International Foundation, Syria Branch, said that adopting the Palestinian cause is in action, culture and thinking, and advocating it in any gathering or culture to preserve the Palestinian national spirit strongly contributes to the adherence of the people of the occupied land to their land and their Arab affiliation.

Dr. Salim Barakat spoke about the necessity of pushing the Palestinian cause forward in all activities so that it would remain a beacon light for the option of resistance.

The director of the symposium, Dr. Ahmed Ali Mohammad, emphasized the necessity to support the essence of the Palestinian struggle, unify viewpoints, and advocate a culture of repatriation right the right to return.

K.Q.