Today, Monday, the League of Arab States commemorated the 75th anniversary of the Nakba and the Day of the Prisoner, in the presence of a number of representatives of the member states of the League, Arab and foreign ambassadors accredited to Egypt, and a number of official figures and heads of Arab missions and international organizations.

The Secretary-General of the Arab League, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, said, "Today we commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Nakba, this painful memory for the Palestinian people, and indeed for the Arab nation and for all the free people of the world, which recalls the terrible tragedy that befell the Palestinian people as a result of the occupation of their land and their displacement unjustly, aggression and terror by committing a series of crimes and massacres." hideous".

Aboul Gheit added, in his speech delivered by the Assistant Secretary-General for Palestine and the Occupied Arab Territories at the Arab League, Saeed Abu Ali, "In days like these in 1948, the world witnessed one of the worst and most horrific tragedies that humanity is exposed to, as more than 800,000 people were displaced." Palestinians from their villages and cities, and 531 towns and villages were completely destroyed, with the commission of ethnic cleansing crimes by Zionist gangs committing more than 70 massacres against the Palestinians, which led to the death of more than 15 thousand Palestinians during that period, while the number of Palestinian and Arab martyrs reached since the Nakba in 1948 until Today, about 100,000 martyrs as a result of the continuation of this Nakba, and its episodes continue until the present day, with the continuation of the occupation, which began in 1967, and the crimes it commits against the Palestinian people through settlement, theft of land and resources, the uprooting and displacement of the population, and the destruction of all aspects of the life of the Palestinian people, in a miserable attempt to undermine their resolve. And his insistence on taking away his rights and freedom.

He said, "The international community bears a great responsibility in the need to confront the extreme tendencies of the Israeli right-wing government, which does not miss an opportunity to ignite the situation, inflame feelings, and push matters to the brink of an abyss in the occupied territories, and rejects the two-state solution and works to undermine it through its settlement projects and storming the mosque." The blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and seek to divide it temporally and spatially, and all peace-loving forces must stand together to put an end to these extremist tendencies and dangerous practices of the occupation government.

He stressed, "The crimes that have been committed and continue to be committed do not fall under the statute of limitations no matter how long it takes, and the mechanisms of international justice must be activated in prosecuting the Israeli officials for their crimes and bringing them to account, and here the responsibility lies with the International Criminal Court in the need to expedite its procedures to achieve this goal and end the stage of impunity." We also affirm that the international community, its bodies and organizations, foremost of which is the Security Council, must assume its full responsibilities in following up and implementing its decisions, doing justice to the Palestinian people, ending the Israeli occupation, and establishing an independent Palestinian state on the borders of June 4, 1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital.

For his part, a member of the Executive Committee of the PLO, Head of the Refugee Department, Ahmed Abu Holi, said that the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the Nakba carries a message of affirmation that the Arab League will remain the Arab incubator to protect and defend the rights of the Palestinian people, especially the right of return of Palestinian refugees and the release of our prisoners from the Israeli occupation prisons.

Abu Houli stressed, in the speech of Palestine, that this memory was recognized by the United Nations in a Palestinian and Arab political and diplomatic victory, indicating that its commemoration in the General Assembly Hall for the first time in seven and a half decades constitutes recognition by the United Nations of the Nakba and the Palestinian tragedy that befell the Palestinian people in the year 1948, and an acknowledgment of the Palestinian narrative based on the right, that the Palestinian has been the owner of this land from time immemorial, that the occupying Jews are transients, and that the struggle of our people continues until the restoration of its legitimate rights.

Abu Houli said: "75 years have passed since the Nakba, and the Palestinian tragedy is still continuing, and our people are still looking forward to returning to their homes, to their cities and villages, to take their place among nations like the rest of the peoples of the earth, and a just solution to the Palestinian cause is still far away, as a result of Israel's insistence since its inception to reject Obedience to the resolutions of international legitimacy, some of which constituted the basis and condition for its establishment and recognition by the international community, and the continuation of its policies based on imposing the legitimacy of the fait accompli as an alternative to international legitimacy. Return and continue its racist crimes by demolishing homes, building settlements, seizing lands, Judaizing Jerusalem, and seeking to pass their scheme by imposing temporal and spatial division.

He called on the Arab, brotherly and Islamic countries, in these difficult circumstances, to continue to mobilize international support to implement the resolutions of international legitimacy and the Arab Peace Initiative, to support the struggle of our people and their valiant popular resistance, and to support the International Relief Agency financially to enable it to overcome its complex financial crisis, to ensure the continuity and preservation of its services for what it represents. An embodiment of international responsibility towards the Palestinian refugees, and a living witness to the Nakba and the tragedy of the Palestinian cause.

For his part, the head of the Commission for Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs, Qadri Abu Bakr, called for the need to keep the issue of prisoners and detainees on the agenda of the Arab League, to give it the attention it deserves, to contribute to the development of documenting violations and crimes of their own, and to work with all concerned parties to provide protection for prisoners and detainees from Israeli oppression and injustice.

Abu Bakr stressed, in his speech, the necessity of contributing to the internationalization of the issue of prisoners and detainees, and introducing it to the whole world, with the aim of forming a supportive incubator for them and their just causes in light of the dangerous Israeli escalation.

He called for holding an international conference under the auspices of the League of Arab States, similar to the conference of the Republic of Iraq in 2012, and creating pressure on international institutions to assume their moral, humanitarian and legal responsibilities and upgrade their role to actual action.

Abu Bakr called for the media to contribute to issuing publications, studies, films and visual productions, and to give them a wider space in the Arab media to influence public opinion in a way that serves the cause of our prisoners, and the need to form a committee of Arab experts and specialists, to support the rights of prisoners and enhance their legal status as freedom fighters, and to discuss ways to support them through mechanisms. and international bodies available.

He also demanded the need to address the issue of prisoners and detainees in Arab universities within graduation projects and postgraduate research, and to include it in extracurricular activities, especially in national and Arab events related to Palestine, and to allocate scholarships in Arab universities, especially for freed prisoners and their children, and to activate the Prisoners’ Fund, which was approved by the League of Arab States conference. In Iraq, to which the sisterly Republic of Iraq contributed two million dollars, which were allocated for productive projects for the liberated prisoners.

Likewise, Abu Bakr Talib demanded the allocation of scholarships in Arab universities, especially for the freed prisoners and their children, stressing the need to activate the Prisoners Fund, which was approved at the Arab League conference in Iraq, and the Republic of Iraq contributed two million dollars to it, which was allocated for productive projects for the freed prisoners, and to help them integrate into society.

He stressed that the occupation has arrested more than a million Palestinians since 1967, and about 4,900 Palestinians are still detained in 23 prisons, detention centers and detention centers, all of which, except for "Ofer" prison, are located in the territories occupied in 1948, including 31 girls and women, 160 children and nearly 1,000 detainees. There are more than 700 prisoners suffering from various diseases, including 24 cancer patients, and the most dangerous of them today is the case of the two prisoners, Walid Daqqa, who has been detained for more than 37 years, and Asif Al-Rifai, who is still detained. There are 554 prisoners serving life sentences, in addition to the elderly.

Abu Bakr said that the Palestinian prisoners are subjected to organized crimes, their psyches and internal content are attacked, they are deprived of their most basic daily rights, they are fought by deprivation of water and food, and they are left prey to diseases that have infiltrated their bodies through medical crimes, and their families are harassed, their homes are targeted, their property is seized, and their property is deliberately humiliated while visiting their children. .

For his part, Egypt's permanent representative to the League of Arab States, Ambassador Muhammad Orfi, said that commemorating the Nakba and the Palestinian Prisoner's Day in the Arab League is very important. grievance and man’s usurpation of the right of his fellow man.”

Jordan's ambassador to Egypt, its permanent representative to the Arab League, Amjad Al-Adayleh, affirmed that the commemoration of the Nakba provides certain evidence of the grievance of the Palestinian people, their adherence to their right, and the survival of their just cause, which sits at the top of international issues, and the central issue of the Arab and Islamic nations, whose solution is not relinquished. Just and comprehensive, it ends the occupation, abolishes apartheid, stops settlements, and restores the legitimate rights of the brotherly Palestinian people, foremost of which is the right to self-determination and the inadmissibility of seizing land by force.

In turn, Algeria's ambassador to Egypt, its permanent representative to the League of Arab States, Hamid Shabira, affirmed his country's absolute solidarity with the Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli occupation prisons, calling on the international community to activate international mechanisms to protect prisoners and preserve their rights in accordance with the relevant agreements and treaties in the face of the serious violations of the occupation forces against them. .

The representative of the Office of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in Cairo, Sahar Al-Jubouri, confirmed that the agency is committed to providing services to refugees, but the conditions of refugees registered with it are getting worse in all five areas of operations, as there are one million refugees living on food aid and living under occupation and the ravages of repeated war. .

The event featured live testimonies from a number of prisoners' families about the conditions of their detention, the brutal and inhumane practices and torture they are subjected to during their arrest and interrogation, the policies of deliberate medical neglect, and the denial of visits, food and medicine.