PFLP salutes the struggle in Kafr Qasem to defend Palestinian identity and existence

PFLP salutes the struggle in Kafr Qasem to defend Palestinian identity and existence

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine saluted the Palestinian people of Kafr Qasem in occupied Palestine ’48 and their struggle to defend the Arab and Palestinian identity of their city as they bravely confront the policies of the occupation and its racist laws against Palestinian existence throughout occupied Palestine. 

The Front saluted the martyr of the Palestinian people and of Kafr Qasem, the youth Mohammed Taha, who was killed by occupation forces on Monday evening, June 5, in clashes with the occupier.

The Front considers that the ongoing response of the Palestinian masses throughout the occupied homeland makes clear that despite all desperate attempts to erase Palestinian identity and existence through direct aggression, home demolitions, siege and racist and fascist laws, these attempts have failed before the Palestinian people’s firm adherence to their identity, rights and land.

The Front noted that the heroism of the people of Kafr Qasem is a model that shows a clear alternative to the illusion of settlement, negotiations and security coordination through liquidationist American “solutions.” The inalienable rights of the Palestinian people can only be achieved through confrontation, resistance and insistence on our full national rights in the streets and in the struggle.

PFLP DEMANDS PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY RELEASE YOUTH ACTIVIST NASSAR JARADAT AND END "SECURITY COOPERATION" WITH ISRAEL

PFLP DEMANDS PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY RELEASE YOUTH ACTIVIST NASSAR JARADAT AND END "SECURITY COOPERATION" WITH ISRAEL

"Security services of the Palestinian Authority seized youth activist Nasar Jaradat in Ramallah four days ago. The PFLP stresses that his arrest comes in the context of the suppression of freedom of expression in the Palestinian discourse that directly supports the Israeli occupation.

The PFLP, the second-largest constituent organization of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), stresses that it holds the Palestinian Authority responsible for the continued detention of Jaradat.

The PFLP underpins that this includes the risk of being arrested by the occupation through what the Front describes as the “revolving door policy”, which, over time, has led to the arrest and death of a number of young activists and resistance strugglers.

The PFLP stresses that the arrest of Jaradat by Palestinian Authority security services, for his writing in social media, shows “disregard for the sentiments of the Palestinian people”. 

The Front stresses that the Palestinian Authority should be holding accountable and arresting those who disregard and undermine the fundamental rights of the Palestinian people, not those who criticize the policy of security coordination and the Palestinian Authority’s political direction and leadership.

The PFLP also urged human rights organizations to act quickly for the release of Jaradat as well as all other political detainees held by the Palestinian Authority. The Front stressed that the PA’s continued repression is unacceptable."