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Gazan journalist Abdul Qader Sabbah describes the tragic scene every morning in the war-torn Strip during Israel’s ongoing genocide that started soon after 7 October, 2023, turning the life of people literally upside down with massacres, mass displacements and destruction.
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Dozens of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon participated in commemorating the 42nd anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacre at the shrine of the victims of the massacre in the Palestine Martyrs Cemetery near Shatila camp, south Beirut.
The event was held at the invitation of the “Popular Conference of Palestinians Abroad” (an independent international body) and Palestinian institutions in Lebanon to commemorate the anniversary of the bloody massacre that was committed on the 16-17-18, 1982 September, under the supervision of the Israeli occupation army.
In his speech, Yasser Ali, a member of the General Secretariat of the PCPA, stressed the “necessity of holding the Israeli occupation entity and all countries that provide support to the killing machine accountable for committing massacres against the Palestinian people and bringing them to justice.”
“We must all, as Palestinian refugees, mobilize all energies to support and back the Palestinian people inside the Gaza Strip and the West Bank with all available means and capabilities,” he said.
In turn, Sami Hamoud, director of the “Thabit for the Right of Return” organization (civil society) and a member of the PCPA, called for “the necessity of holding the occupation accountable in international forums to achieve justice for the victims of the Palestinian people who are still being subjected to the crimes of the occupation in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.”
He called for “mobilizing international energies and supporting the case filed by the State of South Africa at the International Court of Justice to achieve some justice for the Palestinian people who have been suffering the scourge of wars for more than 76 years.”
Hamoud said that “the massacres committed by the Israeli occupation entity on a daily basis will not deter the Palestinian people from continuing their just and legitimate resistance to seize their rights guaranteed by international laws and charters to liberation and self-determination,” according to Quds Press.
Meanwhile, the Israeli occupation army has continued its aggression on the Gaza Strip for 345 days, with American and European support, as its warplanes bomb the vicinity of hospitals, buildings, towers and homes of Palestinian civilians and destroy them over the heads of their residents, and prevent the entry of water, food, medicine and fuel.
The ongoing aggression by the occupation on Gaza has led to the martyrdom of more than 41,206 martyrs, the injury of 95,337 others, and the displacement of 90% of the population of the Strip, according to data from the United Nations.
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Palestine will miss him greatly. Elias Khoury, a leading Lebanese novelist and writers and a staunch advocate for the Palestinian cause, gave up and died, Sunday.
Khoury, a leading voice of Arab literature, had been ill for months and admitted and discharged from hospital several times over the past year until his death, the Al-Quds Al-Arabi daily for which he worked stated.
One of his best-known novels, Gate of the Sun, tells the story of Palestinian refugees expelled from their homes in 1948 during the war that coincided with heartache creation of Israel.
“The Catastrophe began in 1948 and it is still going on,” he once wrote referring to Israel’s illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.
On 16 July, he published an article, titled A Year of Pain, recounting his time bedridden in hospital and enduring “a life filled with pain, which stops only to herald in more pain”. He ended his piece by alluding to the Israeli war in the besieged Gaza Strip, which by had rthen aged on for more than nine months.
“Gaza and Palestine have been brutally bombarded for almost a year now, but they stand steadfast and unshakable,” Khoury wrote. “A model from which I have learned to love life every day.”
The Institute for Palestine Studies honored the late Lebanese novelist for his contributions in support of the Palestinian people.
“Elias Khoury was a staunch advocate for Palestine, contributing to the struggle nationally and intellectually,” the institute said in a statement posted on X.
“Even while hospitalised due to illness, Khoury continued to work on the publication of the institute’s Majallat al-Dirasat al-Filastiniyya journal, “especially during the genocide in the Gaza Strip”, the institute pointed out in a statement
He “paid exceptional attention to the plight of prisoners and detainees in Israeli prisons, devoting pages of the journal to this crucial cause”, the statement added according to the Quds News Network.
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Israeli historian and political scientist Ilan Pape is determined but factually logical in what he says:
“And for me ‘hope’, I want to explain so that nobody misunderstands what it means for me, hope for me, is the end of Israel and the creation of a free Palestine from the river to the sea.”
He says elsewhere and he is quoted in Spanish: “We are in the middle of the last chapter of this Zionist project in Palestine. And the last chapters are violent, they are chapters of decolonization.”
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We must never stop talking about Palestine so that the 900,000 people who are kicked out of their country in 1948 when the Israeli entity was established return back to their original lands and territories.
