RAMALLA (DNA) -Palestine National Council (PNC) has said that the celebration of The Land
Day every year is an affirmation that the land is the core issue in our
struggle against the Israeli occupation, and an expression of the
Palestinian people’s adherence to the land of their forefathers and
grandparents and their rejection of the settler colonial policies and
procedures that target their national and historical presence on their
land.
In a statement PNC issued for the 45th anniversary of this national day,
which will fall tomorrow, Tuesday, March 30th, PNC called on the
Palestinian people in all places of their presence to defend their land,
strengthen their national unity, and their resistance to occupation,
settlement and Judaization in all forms.
The Land Day, which came after the gift of the masses on the 30th of
March 1976 in response to the policy of seizing the land and the attempt
to Judaize the Palestinian Galilee, embodied the highest meanings of
sacrifice and redemption for our people who have the inherent right to
it in the face of Zionist colonialism, PNC said.
The Land Day strengthened the Palestinian national awareness of the
masses of our people in the Galilee, the Triangle and the Negev,
strengthened the bonds of unity between our people in the homeland and
the diaspora, and contributed to the formulation of the national
narrative in the face of the false and fabricated narrative of the
Zionist movement, PNC added and called on our people in the 1948
territories to adhere to unity and to miss the opportunity for the
Israeli occupation that tried and is still trying hard to penetrate the
national position and divert attention from the issue and the national
goals.
In its statement, PNC pointed to the seriousness of the settlement and
Judaization policies and measures implemented by the occupying power in
the Palestinian territories, especially in Jerusalem and the Jordan
Valley, warning against continuing the occupation, creating a Settlement
Ministry, providing tax facilities for settlers, and supporting and
protecting their terrorism against Palestinian people.
PNC indicated that the settlement attack today is intensifying on
Al-Bustan and Batn Al-Hawa neighborhoods in Silwan, Sheikh Jarrah, Wadi
Al-Joz, Walaja, and Qalandia Airport, to displace Palestinians and expel
them from the Holy City and change its cultural features to continue its
Judaization and impose an occupation fait accompli, in an attempt to
prevent its incorporation as the capital of the Palestinian state.
PNC called on Arab, regional and international federations and
parliaments to condemn the Israeli policy of ethnic cleansing, and to
strengthen their support for the Palestinian people and their legitimate
national rights, and to emphasize the prosecution of Israeli war
criminals by international courts and bring them to trial and not with
impunity.
PNC also called on the United Nations and its institutions to implement
its decisions on the Palestinian issue and the necessity to activate
international binding mechanisms to implement these decisions, and to
oblige the occupying state to comply with international legitimacy to
end the occupation and enable Palestinian people to exercise their right
to return and self-determination in their independent state with
Jerusalem as its capital.
PNC concluded its statement by affirming that Palestinian people
everywhere continue to defend their land. PNC directs a salute of
reverence and exaltation to the souls of the martyrs, and the steadfast
heroic prisoners in the prisons and jails of the Israeli occupation.
