[News] Rafah residents: ‘We will not leave our land, we will protect the resistance’

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Rafah residents: ‘We will not leave our land, we will protect the
resistance’
Middle East Monitor
February 17, 2024
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A number of residents and those displaced in the city of Rafah, south of
the Gaza Strip, announced on Friday that they were: “Aware of some of the
calls promoted by the occupation against the resistance with the aim of
striking its popular support and spreading division and conflict.”

They confirmed in a statement received by *Quds Press*: “The residents and
those displaced in Rafah
<https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240209-unicef-warns-against-military-operation-in-rafah/>
categorically support the Palestinian resistance.”

They called on: “The Palestinian factions, popular groups, clans, scholars
and national components to play their role in the initiative to protect the
popular support and backing emergency and protection committees by forming
popular protection committees.”

The statement also called on: “The security services to strike with an iron
fist anyone who dares attack our people and their capabilities from any
direction and to activate the revolutionary law.”

The people of Rafah and those displaced to it called for: “The formation of
popular protection committees to strengthen the people and protect them
from the infiltration of war merchants, monopolists, outlaws and fleeing
spies, and to form a deterrent against them immediately.”

They asked each: “Sheltering and refuge centre to form its own protection
committee in coordination with government emergency committees and
Palestinian factions to stop attacks by outlaws. We, the people of Rafah
<https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240212-israel-approves-plan-for-ground-offensive-for-rafah/>,
residents and displaced, confirm that we will not leave our land, and we
will protect the resistance. We will not migrate, neither by force nor
voluntarily. We, along with all those concerned, will protect our land, our
resistance, our homes, and our honour, and we will be an impenetrable wall
in the face of the occupation and its supporters.”

Since 7 October, the Israeli occupation army has continued its aggression
against the Gaza Strip, with US and European support, with its planes
bombing the vicinity of hospitals, buildings, towers and Palestinian
civilian homes, destroying them over the heads of their residents. The
occupation has also prevented the entry of water, food, medicine and fuel.

The occupation’s continued aggression against Gaza led to the deaths of
28,775 martyrs and the injuries of 68,552 people, in addition to the
displacement of more than 85 per cent (about 1.9 million people) of Gaza’s
population, according to the Strip’s authorities and international bodies
and organisations.

*READ: Former Mossad official: ‘Children in Gaza over 4 deserve to be
starved’
<https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240217-former-mossad-official-children-in-gaza-over-4-deserve-to-be-starved/>*
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