Message from the External Relations Department of the Democratic Front on the anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba
Our Nakba is an open historical wound that will not heal except through the restoration of the land and the return of its people to it

Ladies and Gentlemen, in political and popular institutions and international parties,
Greetings and appreciation,
We send you this message as we approach the 78th anniversary of the Nakba, in which we reaffirm the Palestinian people’s right to their land, reject schemes aimed at erasing their identity and collective memory, and remind the world that rights do not expire with time, and that the will of peoples is stronger than all colonial and displacement projects.
May arrives carrying with it the suffering of forced displacement, and it revives in the memory of millions of Palestinians the anniversary of their Nakba, which has become a haunting concern for every Palestinian who has endured the pain of refuge and exile, and who continues to suffer its catastrophic consequences: the occupation of land, killing, and destruction crimes, in addition to the ongoing displacement of more than half of the Palestinian people into exile and diaspora, and their deprivation of the right to return to their homes – one of the most brutal crimes of mass forced displacement in modern history.
Today, the scene is being repeated in new forms in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, where the Palestinian people are subjected to a war of extermination that recalls the crime of displacement and ethnic cleansing committed in 1948. This includes plans to seize land and Jewish settlement expansion in the West Bank, as a continuation of a systematic policy of destroying hundreds of thousands of homes and displacing around two million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
These measures reflect the clear implementation of Israeli governmental policies aimed at annexing large parts of the West Bank, through expanding settlements and altering the geographic and demographic reality. This is accompanied by legislative measures and decisions issued by official institutions and by the occupying army, which provides full protection to settler militias in their terrorist attacks against Palestinian villages and camps, especially in remote areas.
Israeli measures reflect a historical extension of a project based on killing, destruction, and displacement, as occurred in 1948, repeated in the 1967 occupation, and in the war of extermination in Gaza, and continuing today in different forms in the West Bank. Despite the clarity of these crimes and their documentation by numerous international bodies, the international community remains unable to take effective measures to hold Israel accountable. Some states even continue to provide political and military support.
The experience of decades of occupation and aggression has confirmed the impossibility of coexistence with Israeli fascism and colonial projects in Palestine and the region, in light of an overwhelming racist and fascist tendency within Zionist society, which is becoming increasingly extremist, and in light of the world’s inability – and at times complicity – in putting an end to the crime of land theft and the expulsion of its people. The Palestinian people therefore have the right to resort to all forms of self-defense in confronting the occupation and its settlers, and in confronting the policy of double standards practiced by Western states.
Therefore, we address you on behalf of the External Relations Department of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, calling for exerting every possible effort to confront Israeli crimes and to put an end to its arrogance and aggression against the Palestinian people and the peoples of the region.