Ladies and gentlemen, dear comrades,
Greetings to you,

Beautiful Gaza, an integral part of the land of Palestine, spanning 365 square kilometers, still dreams of living freely under the sun. With the end of one year and the beginning of another, it has been painted with the blood that flowed like rivers among the rubble of its destroyed buildings and in the shelters of its displaced people. Surrounding it and within its homes is the pervasive smell of gunpowder: shelters that have witnessed hundreds of massacres, hospitals whose walls testify to the killing and arrest of those within them before being destroyed and burned, populated homes and UNRWA headquarters, places of worship that have not been spared from destruction. Everything in the Gaza Strip testifies that the year 2024 was the bloodiest on a global scale, due to the atrocities committed by the Israeli fascist army, whose soldiers boast of targeting hundreds of thousands of children and women of the Palestinian people in their secure homes and places of displacement. This image will remain etched in the annals of time for future generations.
The feelings and expressions of the peoples of the earth in bidding farewell to the past year and welcoming a new one differed. However, for the people of Palestine, 2024 was no different from previous years except for more killing, destruction, hunger, thirst, displacement, and suffering that enveloped the Gaza Strip in particular and various cities and villages of Palestine, which turned a new year and welcome another year under occupation. Despite death spreading everywhere, 2024 was a year of resilience and heroism in challenging the Zionist arrogance supported by the United States and some colonial Western countries, a year of will and determination to stay in the land, a year of resistance in which its men heroically defended their land and people. The land of Palestine witnessed more than one battle and epic that shattered what remained of the dignity and deterrence of the Israeli army, whether in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, which continue to confront the occupation, or in Lebanon, which recorded pages of glory and heroism in resisting and withstanding the Zionist forces.
No local or international institution or body has so far managed to encompass all aspects of the suffering and consequences left by the genocide war that Israel continues to commit in the Gaza Strip in particular and in all of Palestinian land in general. However, it is certain that this war has touched all segments of Palestinian society, and it suffices to point to the fact, still a passing mention in the Western and Arab media, that «tens of Palestinian families have been completely erased from the civil registry and no longer exist (1413 Palestinian families completely erased), and that thousands of children, especially in the Gaza Strip, have lost one of their parents.» The World Health Organization in a report noted that the Israeli occupation committed about 11,000 massacres in the Gaza Strip during the year 2024. The number of martyrs exceeded 50,000, most of them children and women, with 77 government schools and 65 schools belonging to the Relief Agency and 51 university buildings destroyed, in addition to the destruction of dozens of health centers. The number of injured exceeded 100,000, with more than 11,000 missing amidst massive destruction and famine that killed dozens of children, an event unprecedented in the world. In the West Bank, the past year was one of the worst years that the Palestinian people have experienced, due to raids on cities and Palestinian camps by the occupation army, and an increase in terrorist operations by settlers against Palestinians, with data indicating the martyrdom of more than 835, including 171 children, and more than 6,000 injured, in addition to the displacement of hundreds from their lands.
According to data from the Zionist occupation army, which lacks accuracy and objectivity because the numbers are greater than announced, the Gaza Strip Gaza was subjected during the year 2024 to more than 16,000 raids carried out by American-made fighter jets, helicopters, and drones, in addition to tens of thousands of artillery shells, which Israel obtained from the United States and Western countries, and targeted everything above the ground in the Gaza Strip, from children and women to buildings, vehicles, government headquarters, shelters, displacement centers, health and educational centers, and journalistic offices.. It is no longer permissible to compare the nuclear bomb of Hiroshima with the thousands of tons of explosives and American and Western weapons dropped on the Gaza Strip.
The «Department of foreign Affairs of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine» presents these facts to the parties of the world and all political, social, trade union, media, and cultural frameworks. These facts do not fully reflect the reality, but it considers that what the Palestinian people have been subjected to in their land of Palestine (in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem) would not have occurred with such fascism were it not for American and then Western support, and the silence of the international community with all its political, legal, and humanitarian systems, ignoring its duties towards the human rights of the Palestinian on his homeland, and its failure to enforce the resolutions of legitimacy on the occupying state to put an end to its massacres and aggression.
As we welcome a new year, we can only salute our heroic prisoners in Zionist detention, and we call on the free people of the world to give this issue the attention and follow-up it deserves, after information has revealed the humanitarian atrocities that prisoners are subjected to, whose numbers during the past year reached unprecedented numbers (more than 10,000 prisoners) including hundreds of children, the sick, and the elderly. All this is for all humanitarian and rights organizations demanding, today before tomorrow, to transfer this file to international judicial and legal forums as one of the major issues that condemn the enemy for committing war crimes, and crimes against humanity, which strengthens the position of the Palestinian cause in international forums, especially in the United Nations General Assembly, the International Court of Justice in The Hague, and the International Criminal Court.
In the new year, as we renew our thanks and appreciation to all countries, parties, organizations, institutions, and individuals who supported our cause as a cause of a people struggling for their freedom, we praise the legendary steadfastness of our people and their valiant resistance in the sector, which has become on the global stage a symbol of national dignity for all peoples and free people of the world, and a symbol of humanity in its resistance and resilience in the face of the Zionist war machine. Reaffirming our right to shape the future of our children and generations without foreign intervention, and also our right to confront the Zionist occupier, whose occupation of our land is sufficient reason for our people of all its categories to continue the resistance until the occupier leaves our land and enables the Palestinian people to exercise their national rights over their land freely, away from all forms of occupation, colonization, and dependency.