In a statement to the Riyadh Summit
With the convening of the Arab-Islamic summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine issued a statement in which it said: Our Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and Jerusalem, the capital of the State of Palestine, do not want words and statements from the leaders of the Arabs and Muslims, but rather expect influential actions from them that rise to the level of a sense of national, fraternal, and humanitarian responsibility, and that truly express the feelings of about 3 billion Arabs and Muslims, who are following the scenes of mass killing at the hands of the occupation forces, the remains of children and women in the Strip, and the suffering of the wounded and injured whose hospitals and health centers were destroyed by the occupation forces to deprive them of treatment, such that every wounded or injured person has become a potential martyr.
The Democratic Front added: A full year has passed since the previous conference of Arab and Muslim leaders, during which our people did not witness any effective impact of their decisions, which remained ink on paper, except for some meetings, gatherings and statements that did not even produce the required media hype, which constituted a deep disappointment among our people in the occupied territories and in the diaspora, who have a deep feeling that they are fighting alone, not in defense of Palestine alone, but of the Arab and Islamic nations that still constitute a target for the Israeli enemy’s ambitions in their land, wealth and national dignity.
The Democratic Front called on the Riyadh Summit to activate the elements of strength and will among the peoples of the Arab and Muslim nations, and to activate the elements of strength among their governments, and to work seriously to immediately stop the barbaric war of the fascist state against our people, and to withdraw from the Gaza Strip, break the siege, and provide the Strip with all its food and health needs and requirements for activating the infrastructure, and to provide decent shelters for the displaced, to strengthen their will to cling to their land and reject all forms of incitement to migration or displacement.
The Democratic Front also called on Arab and Muslim leaders to restore consideration to the Arab Peace Initiative, which made the relationship with the occupying state conditional on withdrawal from all occupied Arab and Palestinian territories, and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with full sovereignty on the borders of June 4, 1967, with Jerusalem as its capital, and to reject any interpretation or explanation of this initiative that goes beyond the reality of its political significance and the spirit of the discussions witnessed at the Beirut Summit when it adopted the initiative.
The Democratic Front also called on the Arab-Islamic Summit to take a decisive stance against Israel, considering it an occupying state, which means withdrawing recognition of it, expelling its ambassadors, recalling Arab and Muslim ambassadors to it, and working to expel it from the United Nations and all international institutions, considering it a rogue state that rebels against international laws.
The Democratic Front concluded by calling on the Riyadh Summit to reconsider relations with the countries of the world, based on its position on the Israeli aggression against our people, as one of the minimum duties.