Tomorrow, November 11, marks the 21st anniversary of the martyrdom of the symbol and leader President Yasser Arafat 'Abu Ammar'. The anniversary of 'Abu Ammar's' martyrdom comes amid the ongoing brutal assaults against our people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including Jerusalem, where the daily scene is characterized by bloody reality, as the Israeli aggression machine hardly stops its operations of killing, incursions, destruction, and displacement, along with arrests accompanied by abuse, almost daily in Palestinian cities and villages. The blood of our people in the Gaza Strip continues to bleed, leaving so far 69,176 martyrs and 170,690 injured, in addition to the catastrophic conditions they are experiencing.
The 11th of November each year will remain a painful memory reminding us of the departure of a leader who fought a liberation struggle for our national cause for decades, facing countless military and political battles for it, until it ended with his martyrdom in 2004, after a siege and Israeli aggression that lasted more than three years on his headquarters in Ramallah.
Various stages of the national struggle since the onset of the contemporary revolution have benefited from the extensive wisdom, will, and steadfastness of the leader and martyr Yasser Arafat in the face of all challenges, as he transformed many setbacks into victories recorded in history and will be remembered by future generations for a long time.
The martyr Yasser Arafat may have departed from Palestine in body, but his legacy of struggle remains firmly rooted among our people.
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21 years since the martyrdom of leader Yasser Arafat