Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - The Palestinian Peace Alliance held in Ramallah a youth meeting on the challenges facing the Palestinian national project in the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem, as well as on the regional and international arenas.

Dozens of university students from different regions and a number of activists and young leaders participated in the conference.

The conference, which was moderated by the journalist Rami Mahdawi, was addressed by: President of the Palestinian Prisoners Club, Qaddoura Fares, Mrs. Hind Khoury, a former minister and ambassador, in addition to the Director General of the Palestinian Peace Coalition, Mr. Nidal Fuqaha.

In his intervention, Qaddoura Fares stressed that the most important challenge facing the Palestinian national project at the present time is to end the division and complete internal reconciliation, which affects our present and future, stressing the importance of national unity as a main requirement in confronting the occupation policies that target the Palestinian land.

He added, "The Palestinian issue is the difficult figure in the equation of the region and the region, and any transgression of the Palestinian cause is absurd, but the Palestinian movement and the state of division made overcoming this issue easy, as happened recently at the Negev summit."

He continued, "What happened recently at the Jeddah summit in Saudi Arabia, in terms of the absence of the Palestinians, was caused by the Palestinian internal situation, and indicated that the Palestinians need elections that break the current state of impasse, and open the door wide for youth and their participation in public life."

In his intervention on the status of the Palestinian cause regionally and internationally, the Director General of the Palestinian Peace Coalition, Nidal Fuqaha, said, "The decline witnessed by the Palestinian cause on the regional and international arenas is mainly due to the weakness and absence of institutions resulting primarily from the state of division and internal fragmentation."

He pointed out that the Palestinian issue witnessed a clear decline in international priorities during the last decade, but the most serious setback was the dissolution of some Arab countries from the condition of withdrawal from all occupied Arab lands in 1967 before normalizing relations with Israel as stipulated in the Arab Peace Initiative, as happened with the agreements Normalization signed by four Arab countries. These agreements opened the door wide for Israel to strengthen its relations in the region and change the map of alliances.

He added, "The Palestinians paid a heavy price for their position on these agreements, politically and financially. At the same time, the Israeli presence in the Arab region increased, and the pace of security cooperation in the region with Israel accelerated in the face of the Iranian threat."

Jurists said that the Palestinian cause is no longer a priority internationally, with all these developments and the ongoing war in Ukraine. "For the American administration, reaching a solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is no longer a goal, and this explains the low level of intervention in mediating between the two sides. In the past, this matter attracted the attention and intervention of the president or the foreign minister, as was the case during previous administrations, but today The file is entrusted to an employee of the US State Department. He explained that Israel took advantage of what was happening in the international arena to change the facts on the ground, by building more settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Hind Khoury said that Jerusalem is the central issue of the Palestinian people, so the Israeli government is working to Judaize Jerusalem and abuse Jerusalemites.

Khoury explained, "Israel is working to impose the Israeli curriculum in schools in Jerusalem, with the aim of distorting the Palestinian identity, and has turned the political conflict into a religious conflict."

She added, "The recent developments in the region confirmed that we need to pay attention to these changes. There is a third world war and a new world order. We, as Palestinians, must resolve internal disputes and end the continuous division since 2016. The Palestinian people are an educated and cultured people, so there is solidarity among peoples with the cause." Palestinian.