So that we do not shoot at the head of our national project

Last July, the Palestinian factions and forces were able to agree on what became known as the Beijing Declaration, which constitutes the necessary and most important gateway to reorganizing the internal house. The declaration, which was signed by the Fatah and Hamas movements, and all other factions within and outside the framework of the Palestine Liberation Organization, included unifying national efforts to confront the Zionist aggression, stopping the war of genocide carried out by the occupying state and the settler gangs, forming a temporary national unity government with the agreement of the Palestinian factions, and activating and regularizing the work of the temporary unified leadership framework for partnership in political decision-making.

It is very unfortunate that this declaration was placed in dark drawers, instead of expediting its immediate implementation, the provisions of which constitute an existential need for our people in the face of the crimes of genocide and ethnic cleansing that are spreading from the Gaza Strip to the rest of the West Bank, and threaten the danger of mass displacement. Not to mention that it constitutes a salvation network for the possibility of preserving the achievements of the national movement, and the enormous sacrifices of our people over the course of a century of struggle that has never stopped, in addition to being a necessary entry point for rebuilding the political system on consensual foundations until the holding of comprehensive general elections.

It goes without saying that the absence of a unified political reference at the level of the organization and the authority was and still is a strategic political vacuum, especially since the beginning of the Israeli aggression in October of last year, which puts the sacrifices and achievements of our people at risk, and deprives our struggling people who are holding on to the embers of achieving political achievements of the size of these sacrifices, foremost of which is ending the occupation and seizing the right to self-determination, not to mention holding Israel accountable for its ongoing crimes, which are becoming increasingly violent and bloody, especially in the northern Gaza Strip.

It is worth noting that the top priority of our people and their various political and social components, along with all the forces of freedom and justice in the world, is to immediately stop the crimes of genocide and ethnic cleansing against our people in the Gaza Strip, and to ensure the provision of humanitarian relief in the face of the policy of killing, starvation and siege, and to give hope for the possibility of achieving urgent shelter and reconstruction. Unifying the comprehensive national institutions and formulating a vision, a strategy of action and a unified leadership, at least in accordance with the Beijing Declaration, was and still is able to contribute effectively, not only to achieving these top priorities for the interests of our people, but also to transforming their unprecedented sacrifices into a national and diplomatic lever that opens the possibility of addressing the roots of the Palestinian issue, in a way that guarantees the attainment of dignity, freedom, self-determination and the embodiment of national sovereignty.

The question that comes to mind for every Palestinian citizen, and for every person who has broken his silence around the world, is in whose interest are such existential issues being put aside, while the insistence on not implementing them continues, even though this provides Netanyahu's gang with an opportunity to escape punishment and continue to carry out the open massacre against our people. It has been clear for many years, and not only since the aggression of genocide and annexation, that the strategy of the political system in Israel seeks to tear apart the national entity, separate the Gaza Strip from the West Bank to prevent the Palestinians from determining their fate in an independent, fully sovereign national state, and to proceed with annexation plans and seize more land. It has also become clear that the destruction of refugee camps in the Gaza Strip and some camps in the occupied West Bank, and preventing UNRWA from continuing to provide its services, clearly aims to erase the refugee issue and their right to return to their homes from which they were displaced, all within the framework of liquidation plans that are proceeding at full speed without a unified Palestinian plan to confront them, except for the resistance to the aggression in the Gaza Strip and some pockets of resistance in the occupied West Bank.

Despite the clarity of the occupation's plans, the horror of the sacrifices, the bloodshed and the destruction, the leadership that dominates the national decision-making process continues to turn its back on all the requirements of the required political confrontation, foremost of which is the unity of the national entity and its comprehensive institutions according to the national consensus expressed in the Beijing Agreement. It is almost slipping into Netanyahu's strategy in a separate discussion of the so-called future of Gaza after the war. Limiting the discussion to forming a mere committee in the Gaza Strip, under the pretext of ensuring the delivery of relief to our people in the Strip, and the risks that this carries of slipping not only into a state of destructive division, but perhaps demarcating the separation, which will encourage the occupation government to set additional conditions and proceed with its plans to prevent the unity of the national entity in preparation for a complete assault on all the rights of our people and the liquidation of their just cause. All of this is without any clear or convincing answer as to whether this adventurous step will provide a guarantee to stop the bloody aggression and crimes of genocide, and even what it may provide as a cover for the occupation to remain in the Strip and not withdraw from it, and a series that begins and does not end with conditions that aim to impose the surrender that it failed to achieve through its horrific crimes. This is at a time when the safe and mandatory path that constitutes an existential need not only to ward off corruption, but also to reap political benefits, is known and clear, and most importantly, it constitutes the necessary national step that responds to the popular will and national consensus, and provides hope for our people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem, and enhances the elements of their steadfastness and ability to survive, and mobilizes their collective energy to thwart the occupation's liquidation plans. Without that, especially if we slide towards further fragmentation of the comprehensive national institutions, instead of restoring their unity, regardless of the pretexts that are presented or the goals behind that, which are not far from the traps of the ruling gang in Tel Aviv, we will be like someone shooting himself in the head, and even at the heart of the entire national project for many generations to come. This is what all political forces that are now at a historical test will bear responsibility for, between doing their duty in confronting these looming dangers, and not continuing to remain silent about them.