At the conclusion of the barbaric war on our people in the occupied Palestinian territories, especially in the Gaza Strip, its eighth month, and its entry into the ninth month, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine issued a statement, in which it affirmed the insistence of our people, with all their groups and categories, to continue the resistance, steadfastness and perseverance, until the Israeli occupation leaves every inch of the proud land of the Gaza Strip.
The Democratic Front said: Our people and their resistance, in the legendary struggle witnessed by every inch of Gaza, presented an honorable image of the true essence of the Palestinian people, the depth of their patriotism, their adherence to their land, and their rejection of all forms of begging, humiliation, and subjugation, and building on false promises, and subjugating their fate in the hands of others, in a firm adherence to their sacred right to self-determination, and the establishment of their independent state with full sovereignty and Jerusalem as its capital, on the borders of June 4, 1967, and the resolution of the refugee issue in accordance with Resolution 194, which guarantees them the right to return to the homes and properties from which they were displaced since 1948, and their rejection of all alternative formulas and formations to the Palestine Liberation Organization, their legitimate and sole representative.
The Democratic Front added: The barbaric war also revealed the criminal nature of the Zionist enemy, in its use of genocidal war, policies of racial discrimination and ethnic cleansing, settler colonialism, land plunder and mass arrests, as a means to achieve its dark goals, in expanding a state that was built on blood, with a colonial function, and is an extension of the imperialist project in our Arab region.
The Democratic Front said: We in the DFLP, as the war of genocide against our people enters its ninth month, stress the following:
1) Continue resistance, steadfastness and perseverance until the Israeli enemy leaves every inch of the Gaza Strip.
2) Rejecting all forms of negotiations under the pressure of war, killing, destruction and the mass burning of women and children.
3) Breaking the siege on the Gaza Strip, opening all crossings, and allowing the flow of all forms of humanitarian aid, without artificial obstacles from any party.
4) The return of the displaced to their areas without conditions, and the provision of decent shelter for them, to ensure their stability until what was destroyed by the occupation is rebuilt, and to block all forms of migration and displacement.
5) Rebuilding the health system in the Strip, to provide treatment and necessary services to the wounded, and transferring serious cases abroad for treatment with brothers and friends.
6) Release of prisoners and detainees held by the occupation in Gaza and the West Bank, in accordance with a comprehensive agreement.
7) Launching an international project to rebuild the Gaza Strip, and imposing sanctions on the occupying state, considering it responsible for the destruction, devastation, killing, and humanitarian disasters that have befallen the Gaza Strip.
To affirm for the thousandth time that the Gaza Strip is an integral part of the occupied Palestinian territory, and cannot be separated from the West Bank, with Jerusalem at its heart as the capital of the State of Palestine, and that the future of the Strip (or what is called “the day after” the Strip) is part of the Palestinian national project, drawn by our people and their national forces within the framework of a participatory coalition vision under the umbrella of the PLO, the sole legitimate representative of our people, and to reject alternative projects based on returning the mandate to the Strip, under whatever name it may be.