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56th Anniversary of the Founding of the PFLP: Full StatementDecember 11,
2023
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[image: Deputy Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of
Palestine, Jamil Mezher, during the central festival commemorating the 55th
anniversary of the Front’s launch in Al-Katiba Square in Gaza City on
December 2022. Photo: Ali Jadallah/File photo.]

Deputy Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of
Palestine, Jamil Mezher, during the central festival commemorating the 55th
anniversary of the Front’s launch in Al-Katiba Square in Gaza City on
December 2022. Photo: Ali Jadallah/File photo.

Today marks the 56th anniversary of the founding of the Popular Front for
the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP.) Founded on December 11th, 1967, the
PFLP has been a powerful force fighting for justice and freedom for the
Palestinian people against Zionist occupation. In the midst of the
genocidal imperialist war on Gaza and the entire Palestinian nation, the
PFLP opted to cancel all festivities and celebrations
<https://pflp.ps/post/23863/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%A8%D9%87%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D8%B9%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%AA%D9%82%D8%B1%D8%B1-%D8%A5%D9%84%D8%BA%D8%A7%D8%A1-%D8%A7%D8%AD%D8%AA%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87%D8%A7-%D8%A8%D8%B0%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%89-%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%82%D8%AA%D9%87%D8%A7-%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%AD%D9%88%D9%84%D9%87%D8%A7-%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B5%D8%B9>
that would normally occur on the anniversary of its founding and instead
dedicate all efforts to “to turn this anniversary into an occasion to
escalate the confrontation with the Zionist enemy and settlers in all axes
and points of engagement in Gaza, the West Bank, Jerusalem and everywhere
in Palestine.” Here is the complete translation of their official statement
released yesterday
<https://pflp.ps/post/23861/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D8%B9%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%A8%D9%87%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D8%B9%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%AD%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B1-%D9%81%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%B7%D9%8A%D9%86-%D8%A8%D9%85%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A8%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B0%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%89-%D8%A7%D9%84-56-%D9%84%D8%A7>
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Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — Dec 10, 2023

On the occasion of the 56th anniversary of its glorious inception.
All guns toward the enemy. The resistance continues.

*O great masses of our Palestinian people,*
*O masses of our Arab and Islamic nation,*
*O all the free and honorable people in the world,*

56 years have passed since the birth from the womb of the homeland, from
the profusely bleeding wound of all of Palestine, from its epic love in the
resisting “breath of Gaza” to the depths of history in the “Flower of
Cities [Al-Quds],” with the guns of generations throbbing in the “heart of
the West Bank” and the rest of the cities of Al-Jalil and Al-Naqab, to the
land of our ancestors that inhabits our stories, not confined by geography
nor surpassed by history. Let us set forth and affirm that our legendary
people, who sacrifice without limits, deserve life and deserve Palestine.

56 years, and our faith in the sanctity of our struggle and the justice of
our cause is reinforced. The confidence in our people’s ability, patience,
and resilience is renewed, with a firm will and unyielding determination,
since we emerged from the womb of the Arab Nationalist Movement. On
December 11, 1967, the birth of the revolutionary response marked a
qualitative station, a historical turning point in our people’s struggle,
and a response to the Naksa of June 4, 1967, expressing rejection of its
implications, the occupation of the remaining land of historic Palestine,
the Sinai Peninsula, and the Golan Heights.

56 years, and throughout its combative journey, on the path to liberating
all of Palestine, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine has
presented tens of thousands of martyrs, from its finest leaders, cadres,
and fighters, and long caravans of martyrs, wounded, and prisoners,
defending the honor and dignity of the nation, and all values of truth,
justice, and humanity in the world. It formed a model of pride for all the
rebellious fighters of our people, our nation, and the free of the world,
in various fields of the existential and civilizational conflict with the
occupation entity, on political, combative, cultural, and media levels,
having the honor of actively contributing to acquainting the world with the
Palestinian cause, the reality of the conflict, and exposing the zionist
and Western narrative based on the myth of “A land without a people for a
people without a land.”

The 56th anniversary of the launch of the Popular Front for the Liberation
of Palestine comes this year, at a time when the genocidal campaign waged
by the occupation army continues for more than two months, with
participation, complicity, and savage American-Western support, and the
impotence of the international community and its human rights and
humanitarian institutions, and official Arab betrayal reaching the extent
of complicity, aiming to break our people’s will and impose surrender, and
liquidate its national cause, fought for over 75 years, and still offering
blood and body parts, unbowed and unbroken, believing in the justice of its
cause and the sanctity of its struggle, more determined and resolute to
continue raising the flag of resistance, more clinging to its inalienable
historical rights, unyielding to compromise and trade, on the path to
liberation and return.

*O great masses of our Palestinian people,*
*O all the free and honorable in our nation and the world,*

The anniversary of the launch, for us in the Popular Front for the
Liberation of Palestine, is an occasion to evaluate and review our journey
of struggle, and to renew the pledge we made to our people since the
launch, that we will remain steadfast to the covenant and the promise,
loyal to the blood of the martyrs, the pain of the wounded, the torments of
the prisoners, the tears of the mothers, the cries of the orphans, to the
hopes and dreams of our people, we will not change or alter, we will not
compromise or relinquish, and we will always remain loyal to the oath and
the covenant, no matter how severe the difficulties and the sacrifices. The
Front will remain as you have known it, the front of the poor and the
revolutionaries, the front of loyalty, honesty, altruism, and sacrifice,
drawing determination from our people’s steadfastness. From their patience
and firmness, we grow more determined and resolute to continue the struggle
until achieving the upcoming victory that will inevitably embrace the skies
on the wings of glory and write on the forehead of the sun a legend of a
people who knows no impossible.

As the occupation escalates its crimes and massacres, in a frenzied
campaign, and a premeditated plan to displace the residents of the Gaza
Strip, Al-Quds, the West Bank, and the occupied territories of Palestine of
1948, aiming to realize the project of the Jewish state and entrench it as
a reality in the context of its plans wrapped in Talmudic myths, with
partnership, support, and unprecedented American-Western coverage, our
people stand with all pride and defiance, with the strength of right and
survival and an unyielding will in the face of the most brutal Nazi killing
machine of the modern era, practicing the latest forms of moral obscenity,
unprecedented in its savagery, racism, and bloodiness, devoid of all human
values, burning children and women, choking fetuses in their mothers’
wombs, crushing the bodies of unarmed civilians, destroying homes, schools,
and life facilities, exploding hospitals, mosques, and churches, targeting
everything connected to human life in the Gaza Strip. All this to break the
will of our people, who refuse to surrender and submit, growing more solid
and aggressive, more determined to fight and withstand, until defeating the
objectives of the aggression and defeating the occupation army, which is
incapable of confronting the resistance in the battlefields.

In light of the ongoing aggression, and the cover provided by the American
administration, Western governments, and some international bodies and
organizations, the aggressor acts as if it is above international and
humanitarian law, disregarding all international charters and norms, away
from accountability and responsibility. Its aggression intensifies to
implement its diabolical projects, intensifying settlements, Judaizing
sacred sites, besieging and storming cities, towns, and camps in Al-Quds
and the West Bank, raiding homes, arresting citizens without accusation,
pursuing and cold-bloodedly assassinating children and young people,
severing the West Bank, setting up checkpoints, hindering the movement of
citizens, and unleashing settler gangs, providing them protection to wreak
havoc, killing, and terrorizing unarmed civilians.

In response to all this, our people have decisively replied that resistance
is the means to deter the occupation, restore our legitimate rights, and
the Al-Aqsa Flood epic constitutes one of the advanced and shining stations
of our people’s struggle, which history will inscribe in golden letters.

*O great masses of our Palestinian people,*
*O all the free and honorable in our nation and the world,*

Facing all the enormous challenges and dangers threatening our people, our
nation, and global peace and stability, we affirm and call for the
following:

We call for an immediate halt to the aggression on the Gaza Strip. We
emphasize that the introduction of relief aid is important and vital, but
it loses its importance in the context of the ongoing Holocaust the
occupation perpetrates against our people. We consider the American and
Western positions and statements regarding the protection of civilians to
be deceitful and misleading, aiming to absorb international public outrage
and cover for the continuation of the aggression.

We affirm that our people’s resistance to the occupation is a legitimate
right, guaranteed by all international charters and norms. Our people are
committed to exercising this right, regardless of the sacrifices. The
resistance continues as long as the occupation exists. We highly value our
people’s rallying around the option of resistance. In this context, we
salute the men of resistance on the battlefield, the brigades and
battalions, the valiant fighters, the lions of the field, and say to them,
“Glory bows to you, O you who have shattered the might of the occupation
army, humiliated its leaders, officers, and soldiers, crushed their tanks
and personnel carriers, and inflicted a resounding defeat they will not
forget for days to come.”

We confirm that the genocidal campaign our people in the Gaza Strip are
subjected to, and the barbaric practices of the enemy in Al-Quds and the
West Bank, are not merely a response to October 7, as claimed, but a
continuation of the conspiracy and aggression our people have been facing
for over 75 years.

We emphasize our people’s firm rejection of all displacement or
guardianship projects, and that our people are the ones who chart their
future. Anyone who seeks or aligns with any conspiracies or plans targeting
displacement or guardianships will be resisted and confronted by our people
and thwarted.

We extend a salute of glory and loyalty to every child, elder, and woman of
our people in the Gaza Strip, to those who stand firm and patient, holding
on to embers, to the martyrs and the wounded, to their families and loved
ones. And to the medical, relief, and ambulance crews, and civil defense
personnel who worked with all their strength and determination to assist
and rescue our wounded and needy people, setting an example for the world
in sacrifice, altruism, and martyrdom.

A salute permeated with the fragrance of the homeland to the national
prisoners movement, the title of defiance and steadfastness in the
occupation’s prisons, with their will made of still as they confront the
occupation’s brutality and Nazi practices with all pride and vigor. We also
extend our greetings and congratulations to the recently released women and
cub male prisoners prisoners from the occupation’s prisons in a prisoner
exchange deal, thanks to the resistance’s steadfastness and perseverance,
despite the occupation’s reluctance.

We call for strengthening and solidifying Palestinian national unity among
all components and forces of our people, and forming a unified Palestinian
emergency leadership to confront the aggression and topple its objectives,
based on adherence to all our people’s historical rights and disengagement
from all agreements signed with the occupation entity, ceasing reliance on
illusions of settlement, and the possibility of achieving peace and
coexistence with this bloodthirsty criminal enemy, considering that the
essence of the conflict is existential, not merely about borders.

We call on the masses of our people, our nation, and the free people of the
world, to engage in the battle to defend its legitimate and just rights,
considering that the Palestinian cause represents undoubtedly the most just
and sacred human cause of the modern era.

We call for launching initiatives and social and humanitarian solidarity
campaigns to provide essential needs for our people in the Gaza Strip, to
enhance their steadfastness and stability in their land until the
aggression is repelled and its objectives are defeated.

We affirm that the brutal massacres our people are subjected to have
exposed the complicity and impotence of international institutions and
organizations and their subjugation to the dominance and will of colonial
aggressive powers, necessitating serious work with all forces of freedom,
peace, and justice in the world, to establish international and legal
institutions and frameworks, independent of the dominance and control of
the American administration.

We affirm that the decisions resulting from the recent Arab-Islamic summit
in Riyadh are not serious, lack courage, and do not rise to the level of
the pulse of the Arab and Islamic peoples, remaining merely ink on paper.

We call upon the masses of our people, our nation, and the free people of
the world to escalate their solidarity movements with our people, in all
fields and arenas, in front of embassies, and interests of companies and
institutions supporting the aggression, and to besiege ports and airports
to pressure for the cessation of arms exports to the usurping entity.

We call upon all institutions, universities, unions, committees, clubs,
personalities, writers, journalists, artists, media professionals, and
athletes to boycott the occupation entity, its supporters, and those who
cover up its crimes and massacres.

We highly appreciate the solidarity movements with our people in various
cities and villages of occupied Palestine, and in all places of refuge and
diaspora. We also highly value the support and solidarity of the peoples of
our Arab nation, and the support, assistance, and advocacy campaigns at the
global level. We extend a salute of pride and respect to all the actors and
activists who initiated and contributed to launching movements and
initiatives supporting our people and condemning the aggression.

We express our highest gratitude and appreciation to all the media
platforms and journalistic teams that supported our people and their
resistance, playing a crucial and pivotal role in revealing the reality of
the occupation and the falsity of its claims, exposing its true, bloody,
and savage face despite all challenges and dangers. We also extend a
special tribute to the martyrs of media and journalism, martyrs of the
honest and committed image and word.

In conclusion, we renew our pledge and covenant that we will continue on
the path of the martyrs, we will not bend or break, regardless of the cost
of sacrifices, how severe they become, or how long the years of embers last.

The flag of resistance will remain flying high until the certain victory
and the liberation of all of Palestine.

*Glory to the martyrs.*
*Freedom for the prisoners.*
*Healing for the wounded.*
*And we will certainly be victorious.*

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Political Bureau
10/12/2023

Translated by Resistance News Network <https://t.me/PalestineResist/22524>

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