A-Infos (en) Canada, Collectif Emma Goldman - [Palestine] To confront the Nakba and the ongoing genocide: Resistance until liberation and return (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Ongoing Nakba, ongoing genocide ---- For more than 76 years, the Israeli 
apartheid colonial regime has maintained its system of domination and 
oppression through a strategy that rests on three pillars: forced 
displacement and transfer , colonization and finally apartheid. This 
regime is made up of a plethora of policies, practices and laws that 
result in the creation, maintenance and increase of the world's oldest 
displaced population: 9.17 million Palestinian refugees and internally 
displaced people. They continue to be denied their rights to reparation, 
including return, restitution of property and compensation, as provided 
for in Resolution 194 of the United Nations General Assembly of 1948. 
These pillars have in further allowed Israel to control 85% of the lands 
of Mandatory Palestine.

After more than seven months of Israel's genocidal war against the Gaza 
Strip, Palestinians remain unprotected and continue to be killed, 
starved, tortured, besieged and forcibly displaced again and again. As 
such, not only is Israel attacking a protected population, but it is 
also taking steps to slowly destroy it, turning humanitarian aid into a 
weapon of war, to the point of malnutrition and starvation, as well as 
destroying infrastructure sanitation and denying health services.

Backed by its colonial allies, Israel has not only refused to ease its 
stranglehold and genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, but has also 
intentionally withheld much-needed aid from the starving Palestinian 
population, particularly in the north. In particular, he deliberately 
obstructed the work of UNRWA and many other international agencies.

Palestinian refugees represent 81% of Gaza's population, and also 
experience internal displacement: approximately 1.7 million Palestinians 
out of the 2.3 million inhabitants of the Gaza Strip are internally 
displaced. This represents 75% of the population and constitutes one of 
the largest displacements since 1948. It is clear that the genocide in 
Gaza is not an isolated event, but rather a component of the ongoing 
Nakba, which responds to the Israel's ultimate goal is to control as 
much Palestinian land as possible, with as few Palestinians as possible.

Escalation of repression against Palestinians

As part of the ongoing genocidal war against Gaza, Israel has 
intensified its repression of Palestinians in the West Bank, including 
in Jerusalem and 1948 Palestine. At the same time, Israel has 
strengthened its policies aimed at silencing voices. Palestinians. 
Confiscation and restrictions on access to land coupled with settler 
attacks have led to the murder of hundreds of Palestinians and the 
forced displacement of thousands of them.

Israeli forces have heavily targeted Palestinian towns and refugee camps 
in the West Bank through daily incursions and raids, killing residents 
and destroying public infrastructure as well as homes.

The number of arbitrary arrests has also skyrocketed, with an abundance 
of reports of torture and ill-treatment, medical neglect, systematic 
abuse, beatings and attacks on prisoners. Furthermore, the Israeli 
apartheid colonial regime continues to withhold the bodies of political 
prisoners, thereby depriving them of a dignified burial.

Permanent complicity

During 76 years of Nakba, the States of the international community 
continued to support the Israeli colonial apartheid regime and guarantee 
it impunity, thus ignoring their legal and moral obligations. The 
Western colonial powers continue to provide political, financial and 
military support to Israel while contenting themselves with a 
communication strategy based on empty declarations "deploring a 
humanitarian crisis". These states thus became active agents of 
genocide, using aid as a weapon of war and supporting Israel in its "day 
after plans", including its campaign to withhold funding, eliminate and 
to replace UNRWA. While Israel has still not provided evidence for its 
allegations, some complicit states have deemed the latest UNRWA 
investigation report "insufficient" and continue to block its funding.

Constant resistance and solidarity

Despite more than 76 years of displacement, oppression, ethnic cleansing 
and genocide, the Palestinian people remain steadfast in their quest for 
liberation and resistance against the apartheid Israeli colonial regime. 
Palestinian resistance in all its forms, in Mandatory Palestine and 
abroad, is supported by a surge of solidarity across the world. The 
efforts of the global solidarity movement stand in stark contrast to the 
evident moral and legal bankruptcy of colonial states and their leaders.

Today, more than ever, we reaffirm that the only solution to the ongoing 
Nakba is a comprehensive, law-based decolonization process that will 
guarantee the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people to 
self-determination and return.

Palestinian resistance, combined with the sustained and strategic 
efforts of the global solidarity movement, is the only way to end 
Israel's genocidal war against the Gaza Strip. It is long past time to 
sanction and dismantle Israel's apartheid colonial regime, and to ensure 
that colonial states are held accountable for their complicity.

Text from the BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and 
Refugee Rights website. Link to the original, here.
https://www.badil.org/press-releases/14941.html#French

https://ucl-saguenay.blogspot.com/2024/05/palestine-pour-faire-face-la-nakba-et.html
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