Rashid Street Return March

Tens of thousands of Palestinians are streaming together, in a continuous, massive march from their displacement sites, from the south and center of the Gaza Strip, towards Gaza City and to the northern areas of Jabalia, Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia, to the sites of destruction and devastation, but they insist on their choice to return to their destroyed homes, which the occupation deliberately blew up and bombed, with the aim of displacing, deporting and displacing them.

On the morning of Monday, January 27, 2025, tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands, poured into the streets in a march towards the north, as if their march and insistence on returning, since the implementation of the ceasefire decision and the implementation of the steps of the truce deal that began at dawn, carried the good news of their right to return to their homes.

As if it is the day of freedom, the day of return, the day of victory, an amazing people, presenting the opposite image, as if they are responding collectively, by them, by the people of Palestine in Gaza, responding collectively to the statements of US President Trump in his demand to displace the people of the Gaza Strip towards Egypt and Jordan, that they are heading from the south of the Gaza Strip, from the Egyptian-Palestinian border towards the north of the Strip afflicted with destruction, killing and deprivation, they are heading to Gaza, and from there to Beit Lahia, Beit Hanoun and Jabalia, which are completely destroyed, and yet they insist on returning to live on the ruins of their destroyed homes, by erecting a tent on their ruins, to start a new life, a defeat for the colony program that aimed to empty the Gaza Strip of its people and people through deliberate killing, and a systematic displacement program.

Indeed, they are making the dawn of steadfastness and perseverance, heralding the dawn of freedom, heralding the continuation of life towards the land and above it, towards the understanding and saying of their late poet Mahmoud Darwish, “On this land there is that which is worth living for,” and here they are making life and dignity to be a model for the rest of the components of their tormented, displaced people.

The Palestinians are paying the price of their freedom and independence, they are paying the price of their legendary steadfastness, with the choice of survival and steadfastness, and thwarting the plans of the colony’s generals, and its expansionist colonialist program and project, to establish their free, independent homeland on the land of Palestine, on the entire land of Palestine.

The people of Jabbarin, as described by their late leader Yasser Arafat, who restored their lost identity, and unified their struggle, jihad, organizations, and independent national identities with the factions within the framework of the Palestine Liberation Organization after he led and sparked the Palestinian revolution before the year of occupation in 1967, and became, on a Palestinian, Arab, and international level, the sole legitimate representative and the real, actual leader of the Palestinian people’s march towards Palestine, and achieved this with the first step, after the first Intifada in 1987, and hundreds of thousands returned with him to Palestine as a result of the Oslo Accords in 1993, and here is the march of his people renewed and leaping a step forward as a result of the Hamas movement’s initiative and the October 7, 2023 operation, which is considered the fourth step and station in the Palestinian struggle.

We, the sons of Jordan, and the Arabs, Muslims and Christians, are proud of them. We are proud that we and them are in one trench, for the sake of Jordan’s security, stability, progress and pluralism, and for the sake of the freedom of Palestine as its people deserve, in freedom, dignity and return.