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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Rafah residents: ‘We will not leave our land, we will protect the resistance’</h1>
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<div class="gmail-reader-estimated-time" dir="ltr">February 17, 2024<br></div>
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<p>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.”</p>
<p>They confirmed in a statement received by <i>Quds Press</i>: “The residents and those <a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240209-unicef-warns-against-military-operation-in-rafah/">displaced in Rafah</a> categorically support the Palestinian resistance.”</p>
<p>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.”</p>
<p>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.”</p>
<p>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.”</p>
<p>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 <a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240212-israel-approves-plan-for-ground-offensive-for-rafah/">Rafah</a>,
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.”</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>READ: <a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240217-former-mossad-official-children-in-gaza-over-4-deserve-to-be-starved/">Former Mossad official: ‘Children in Gaza over 4 deserve to be starved’</a></strong></p>
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