Today, Saturday, the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization held a meeting headed by President Mahmoud Abbas, who opened the meeting by reciting Al-Fatiha for the souls of the martyrs, noting the seriousness of what our national cause is going through, and reviewing the intensive contacts at the regional and international levels in order to stop the aggression and war crimes against our people.

The Executive Committee welcomed the united stance of our people in the face of aggression, and the Arab and international solidarity campaigns with our people, and called for expanding them and preserving the national unity of our people.

The Executive Committee affirmed that the essence of the conflict that the occupying state and its partners seek to deepen is occupation, settlement, expansion and siege, and the closing of all prospects for peace by the occupying governments, and that the basis for achieving security and peace is the implementation of the relevant United Nations resolutions and the realization of the rights of the Palestinian people to freedom and independence.

The Executive Committee reviewed the occupation’s war of genocide, daily massacres and destruction affecting all our people in the Gaza Strip and the rest of the occupied Palestinian territories in the West Bank and Jerusalem, and the continued escalation and continuation of the war of genocide and destruction against our people, which has so far resulted in the death of more than seven thousand five hundred martyrs. More than eighteen thousand wounded, the destruction of homes, institutions and towers, and the targeting of mosques, churches and hospitals, as happened in the massacre carried out by the occupation by bombing the National Baptist Hospital, with more than five hundred martyrs and thousands of wounded rising, coinciding with the escalation of the occupation and gangs and herds of settlers in the West Bank and Jerusalem, and the rise of a large number of the martyrs who were directly targeted by the occupation army, which confirms the efforts made, led by President Mahmoud Abbas, to immediately stop the war of extermination and escalating aggression.

The Executive Committee stressed the President's call to hold an emergency Arab summit in order to intensify all communications and efforts at the regional and international levels to stop the aggression.

The Executive Committee also affirmed its firm rejection of the forced displacement of our people, whether in the Gaza Strip or outside it, or the West Bank and Jerusalem, as this displacement that the occupation is trying to promote aims to create a new catastrophe for our people. Therefore, our people will remain steadfast on their land. They have the right to resist and struggle for their freedom and independence.

The Executive Committee warned against the ongoing attempts to talk about partial solutions or to undermine political representation, stressing that the Palestine Liberation Organization will remain the sole legitimate representative of our people, the leader of our people’s struggle for freedom and independence and to obtain the remaining rights to return, self-determination, and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with full sovereignty, with Jerusalem as its capital.

The Executive Committee also affirmed its appreciation for all the positions of the peoples of the world who are now coming out to demand an end to the aggression and the war of extermination, in light of the partnership of the American administration and some of the capitals that orbit it and support the occupation and cover up its crimes and aggression.

I saluted the countries that voted to stop the aggression and bring in medical, food, water and basic materials.

At its meeting, the Executive Committee emphasized the priority of:

A ceasefire and aggression, under international and regional sponsorship, in agreement with the Palestine Liberation Organization.

Lifting the siege and opening paths for the entry of food and medical supplies, electricity, water, fuel and all life necessities.

Stop the policy of forced displacement of our people inside and outside Gaza.

The organization considered that it bears responsibility for our people, and will work to rebuild Gaza and provide the means of free and decent living for our people.

The Executive Committee affirmed its commitment to achieving these goals in parallel with the movement at the international, regional and Arab levels, to end the occupation and save the two-state solution on the basis of the relevant international legitimacy resolutions through an international peace conference under the auspices of the United Nations, and to enable our people to exercise their right to self-determination, and establish their independent state on the fourth borders. Since June 1967, its capital is Jerusalem.

The meeting expressed the importance of consolidating all efforts to embody Palestinian national unity in the face of the war of extermination and in light of the unity of our people on the ground in all the occupied Palestinian territories, refugee camps and diaspora, and in all their places of presence, in order to protect our people, represent them, and their rights and principles, with the importance of preserving the umbrella and our representative. The only legitimate one, the Palestine Liberation Organization, is the leader of our struggle and resistance to achieve freedom and independence.

The Executive Committee stressed the importance of continuing mass and popular activities with the participation of all components of our people, emphasizing that our main contradiction is with the occupation, far from all secondary contradictions, and resolute adherence to rejecting any attempts to distort the compass and create strife and division, and the importance of addressing all of this with a unified national position in order to confront the occupation. And its settlers.

The Executive Committee also heard the Prime Minister’s report on the government’s readiness and follow-up at all levels, and providing all capabilities to our people in the Gaza Strip, in light of the catastrophic conditions they are going through as a result of the war of extermination that the occupation is continuing in order to achieve its goals aimed at eliminating the national project and the rights of our people. Based on international legitimacy resolutions, international law, and attempts to impose facts on the ground.

In conclusion, the Executive Committee paid all tribute to the steadfastness and resistance of our people in the face of aggression, and to our heroic prisoners and detainees, whose number increases on a daily basis in the context of the daily raids, mass arrests, abuse and punishment to which our prisoners are subjected in the cells, in addition to the arrests and prosecution of our workers from the Gaza Strip who are in prison. The West Bank, and all of this is taking place within the framework of imposing collective punishment and an attempt to break the will of our people and their steadfast prisoners behind the bars of the occupation’s cells.

I also saluted the Arab and friendly peoples for their stances in support of the struggle of our people, and their condemnation of the occupation and its aggression against our people.