Ramallah – Together – The Jerusalem House for Palestinian Studies and Research held a symposium on the challenges of the national project in light of the war on Gaza, in the Al-Bireh Municipality Hall. Historian and writer Hossam Abu Al-Nasr opened the session by refuting the latest statistics as a result of the ongoing aggression, which exceeded 40,000 martyrs, including civilians and unarmed people. Targeting medical teams and that the number of journalist martyrs has reached more than 140 martyrs, with the continued aggression of settlers against villages and cities in the West Bank, while the occupation has killed 450 martyrs in the West Bank since the outbreak of the war. This confirms that the occupation’s plan is not only Gaza, and I consider that the humanitarian need is urgent now in The Gaza Strip is in light of the shortage of food and medicine, the collapse of the entire health system, and the reconstruction of Gaza will not be completed without our unity and the restoration of our compass. There
is no defeat in unity and no victory in division, and there is no single peace or single war, that is, all of this can only be achieved with unity of decision.
Meanwhile, Dr. Jihad Harb, a researcher and writer in politics and governance affairs, spoke about the necessity of bringing back change within the factions’ ideology, giving an opportunity to youth, renewing the work of parties and getting closer to the street, and urging the public interest to prevail regarding the Palestinian issue, thinking about the day after the war, and working to establish a founding council. New to monitor the regime and take into account the priorities of the people. As for Ahmed Ghoneim, a member of the National Council, he refuted the challenges facing the Palestinian national project and reviewed the path of the Palestinian struggle, and the clear change in the international position towards the Palestinian issue, and we must benefit from that. Ghoneim stressed the call for Palestinian national unity away from all The int
ernal differences in which the Palestinian people lose, and he stressed that the PLO is the tent of all of us and our legitimacy and cannot be bypassed, so reforming it from within is an urgent necessity because it is our unification.
Meanwhile, Ratiba al-Natsheh, a member of the Political Bureau of the Feda Party, considered it important to read the enemy’s policy, in light of the loss of the Palestinian cause to the Arab incubator, and in light of regional and foreign conspiracies, and she stressed the role of the PLO as a national liberation movement, so its identity must be restored by calling on the leadership of the PLO to work to change Ideas, programmes, non-compromise and negotiations on the historic land of Palestine, and determining who are the allies of the State of Palestine and who are its opponents.
As for Issam Bakr, the representative of the People’s Party in the Forces and Factions Committee, he discussed the definition of the Palestinian national project first as an entry point to the sol
ution and the necessity of clarifying the Declaration of Independence in 1988 as an existing declaration or not. This is important in determining our priority and program more than 35 years after its declaration and that we must determine whether we as a people Is an authority in a stage of national liberation, or is the Oslo Accord still a title for the stage, and the truth is that it is no longer a title, while Bakr stressed the necessity of complete equality for our people inside and our right to return to our occupied lands, and the necessity of continuing and continuing to demand the rights of the Palestinian people, and he considered that the steadfastness of the people of Gaza during a period of 9 continuous months of war is against This aggression requires us to be responsible.
As for Dr. Muhammad Abu Hamid, head of the Ahd Institute for Studies, he stressed that Israel continues the process of obliterating the Palestinian identity, and considered that the Palestinian national project was previously
weak and must be addressed to solve our issues. He looked at the historical aspect and the role of the Egyptian army during the 1948 war, and how the sector arose. Gaza and the refugee camps arriving in the Gaza Strip, and the importance of the people’s steadfastness during previous wars, and the failure of the plan to displace the people of Gaza to Sinai several times, the most important of which was in the mid-fifties, while the attendees came up with recommendations, the most important of which are the necessity of unity and the success of the meeting with China, to rebuild what the occupation destroyed and stop the barbaric aggression against our people. .
Source: Maan News Agency