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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">56th Anniversary of the Founding of the PFLP: Full Statement</h1>December 11, 2023</div>
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<font size="1">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
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<p>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 <a href="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" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cancel all festivities and celebrations</a>
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 <a href="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" target="_blank" rel="noopener">official statement released yesterday</a>.</p>
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<p>Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — Dec 10, 2023</p>
<p>On the occasion of the 56th anniversary of its glorious inception.<br>
All guns toward the enemy. The resistance continues.</p>
<p><em>O great masses of our Palestinian people,</em><br>
<em>O masses of our Arab and Islamic nation,</em><br>
<em>O all the free and honorable people in the world,</em></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.”</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><em>O great masses of our Palestinian people,</em><br>
<em>O all the free and honorable in our nation and the world,</em></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><em>O great masses of our Palestinian people,</em><br>
<em>O all the free and honorable in our nation and the world,</em></p>
<p>Facing all the enormous challenges and dangers threatening our
people, our nation, and global peace and stability, we affirm and call
for the following:</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.”</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The flag of resistance will remain flying high until the certain victory and the liberation of all of Palestine.</p>
<p><em>Glory to the martyrs.</em><br>
<em>Freedom for the prisoners.</em><br>
<em>Healing for the wounded.</em><br>
<em>And we will certainly be victorious.</em></p>
<p>Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine<br>
Political Bureau<br>
10/12/2023</p>
<p>Translated by <a href="https://t.me/PalestineResist/22524" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Resistance News Network</a></p>
<p>OT/DZ</p></div>
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