OCCUPIED JERUSALEM,(ST)_The Palestinian People ‘s Committee for Solidarity with Syria and its national leadership organized in Kafr Qare village, northern occupied Palestine of 1948 a solidarity rally with Syria ‘s people and army against the ongoing terrorist aggression against Syria.
Under the title “Syria is victorious” the participants in the rally hoisted banners condemning the US ,Turkish and some Arab countries policies in supporting terrorism in Syria, asserting that the criminal gangs that kill the Syrian people are battalions in the Israeli occupation army.
They stressed the need to intensify activities to stand by the Syrian people and their national leadership to challenge the fierce colonial attack on the Arab nation.
The committee ‘s secretary Wasfi Abdul Ghani, and several Palestinian speakers expressed confidence that the Syrian people will emerge victorious , and that Western countries are trying to manipulate the Arabs and fighting them by targeting Syria because it represent the Arab castle of steadfastness and resistance, voicing full solidarity with Syria until terrorists are eliminated and victory declared.
Meantime, Arab Orthodox institutions held in occupied Jerusalem on Friday a sermon and marches on the occasion of the ” Great Friday” , and thousands of Palestinians marched in the same route taken by Jesus Christ, peace be upon him “Via Dolorosa to the Church of Resurrection.”
In a speech on this glorious occasion, Bishop Atallah Hanna of Sebastia of the Greek Orthodox Church said : “We are with the Palestinian people in their legitimate struggle to achieve full freedom , the return of Palestinian refugees to their homes and release all the prisoners,” stressing that the issue of Palestine is the central cause and denouncing the war of barbarism to subvert and destroy Syria
Bishop Hanna reiterated regret and severe pain for the continued abduction of Bishops Paul Yazigi Metropolitan of Aleppo and Iskenderun for the Greek Orthodox and John Ibrahim Metropolitan of Aleppo of Syrian Orthodox, who were kidnapped by an armed terrorist group while conducting humanitarian duties in Aleppo countryside last month.
T. Fateh