PFLP calls on Bulgaria not to deport Palestinian ex-detainee to Israel

PFLP calls on Bulgaria not to deport Palestinian ex-detainee to Israel

RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) has asked the Bulgarian authorities not to respond to Israel's request to hand it over Palestinian ex-detainee Omar Zayed, warning of serious consequences for such action.

In a press release on Saturday, the PFLP said that if Bulgaria took such measure against Zayed, it would be considered a dangerous precedent and a prelude to the arrest and prosecution of Palestinians and Arabs, especially the ex-detainees, living in Europe.

It described the case of Zayed as a national issue with political dimensions and the story of a person who struggled for the freedom of his people, stressing that the international law gave him the right to resist the occupation.

The PFLP urged the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Palestinian embassies in Sofia and Europe to assume their responsibilities towards their nationals and move legally and politically to protect Zayed against any attempt to extradite or prosecute him.

Leila Khaled in Amman event: Any leadership that will not liberate Palestine does not deserve to lead

Leila Khaled in Amman event: Any leadership that will not liberate Palestine does not deserve to lead

The Popular Democratic Unity Party of Jordan organized a national and cultural forum on December 7 at the central trade union headquarters in Amman, marking the 25th anniversary of the founding of the party. 

The PDUP or Wihda Party is an extension of the political and intellectual heritage of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Arab Nationalist Movement in Jordan.

Comrade Leila Khaled, member of the Political Bureau of the PFLP, delivered the main speech on Palestine at the event, noting that this event came as part of the struggle of the Jordanian and Palestinian peoples, marking the anniversary of the intifada, the founding of the PFLP and the founding of the Wihda party.

“Today, we see a third intifada shaking the foundations of the enemy, its army and hordes of settlers who seek to terrorise our people again and again. This uprising started where the enemy did not expect it – our capital, Jerusalem, where it came in rejection to the negotiations and in response to the devastating internal Palestinian division,” said Khaled.

“Any leadership and any authority that does not serve its people and does not liberate the land or secure the return of the refugees does not deserve to lead the people who have given so many martyrs and prsoners,” she said.

Comrade Faraj al-Tameezi of the Jordanian Communist Party spoke, discussing the class struggle in Jordan between bourgeois and parasitic forces and the working class in Jordan, noting that repressive policies and the arrest of journalists are part of the suppression of the popular movement in Jordan, and come in line with the demands of the International Monetary Fund and other global imperialist forces.

Dr. Muwaffaq Mahadin, head of the Jordanian Authors’ Union, spoke saluting the martyrs and the prisoners. He quoted Gramsci – “The old is dying and the new is not yet born” – addressing the current situation of the Arab peoples. He concluded his speech, saying “The path of liberation lives in the literature of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine: no voice is louder than the sound of the guns.”

Comrade Dr. Said Diab, General Secretary of the Wihda Party, said that this anniversary is the opportunity for a new stage in the Jordanian national movement, linking the Jordanian national democratic movement with the struggle for the liberation of Palestine.

Diab saluted the intifada emerging in occupied Palestine, saying that it represents a new overall phase in the Palestinian revolutionary movement towards liberation. He saluted the prisoners, especially Comrade Ahmad Sa’adat, imprisoned General Secretary of the PFLP, Comrade Khalida Jarrar and all of the thousands of freedom fighters in Zionist jails.

The event concluded with poetry, music, dance and the presentation of awards to veterans of the Wihda party.

PFLP: Attacks on Palestinian refugee camps will not succeed in suppressing the intifada

PFLP: Attacks on Palestinian refugee camps will not succeed in suppressing the intifada

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine saluted the Palestinian masses and the youth of the intifada facing attacks and invasions by occupation forces today and yesterday in Qalandiya and Dheisheh refugee camps, where the invading forces killed two young heroes, Ahmad Jahajha, 21, and Hekmat Hamdan, 29, injuring and arresting dozens more.

The Front reaffirmed that all of the attempts by the occupation to attack and suppress the Palestinian refugee camps, targeted with daily incursions and mass arrests, will not succeed in quelling the intifada. These attacks on Shuafat yesterday and on Qalandiya and Dheisheh today will be repeated again in Palestinian camps and villages and will face only increased will, steadfastness and resistance.

The Front noted that the occupation’s escalation of its policy of arrests and introducing two additional battalions of colonial occupation soldiers to the West Bank early next year reveal its inability to confront the intifada and the rising of Palestinian youth, and are a tacit admission that all of its policies, procedures and practices have failed to stop the intifada and will continue to fail until the full recognition of the rights of the Palestinian people.

Beit Rima December 19

From Translators for Palestine:

Beit Rima today: celebrations for the 48th Anniversary of the PFLP, honouring all the heroic martyrs fallen in the struggle against Zionism and Imperialism. Victory is inevitable.

Cuba event commemorates 48 years of the PFLP, international solidarity with Palestine

Cuba event commemorates 48 years of the PFLP, international solidarity with Palestine

Supporters of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in Cuba commemorated the 48th anniversary of the founding of the Front in an event attended by Cuban internationalists, and members of the Arab and Palestinian communities in Cuba. 

The event was attended by Rene Gonzalez, Hero of the Cuban Republic and freed prisoner, one of the “Cuban Five” held in U.S. jails for many years, as well as the Ghanaian ambassador and representatives of the Palestinian embassy in Cuba.

Clara Pulido Escandel, coordinator of international relations with Africa and the Middle East of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, spoke at the event, emphasizing Cuba’s support for the Palestinian people and quoting the statements of Comrade Fidel Castro on the rights of the Palestinian people to self-determination and independence.

Graciela Ramirez Cruz, Argentine internationalist activist and director of Resumen Latinoamericano in Cuba, delievered a solidarity message, speaking about her visit to Sabra and Shatila and the Palestinian camps in Lebanon and in occupied Palestine. She expressed her support for the Palestinian resistance and the Palestinian prisoners, calling for support for the Palestinian people and especially Palestinian women struggling and confronting the occupation.

Comrade Basil Ismail, representative of the PFLP in Cuba, gave a speech emphasizing the history of the Front and its commitment to militant Palestinian national unity to escalate the intifada, and the importance of international solidarity with the Palestinian cause.

He also expressed his support for Argentine journalist Carlos Aznarez, facing persecution by Zionist organizations who seek to silence solidarity with the Palestinian people.

The event included Palestinian youth performances of short theatrical plays portraying Palestinian suffering and steadfastness in the face of displacement, dispossession and oppression, as well as dabkeh folkloric dance and national Palestinian songs.

Rami Fadayel re-arrested by Israeli occupation

On 10 December Israel's occupation forces arrested former political prisoner and PFLP member Rami Fadayel(34) in a pre-dawn raid at Ramallah on the West Bank. (Source: Translators for Palestine.)

PFLP mourns the martyr, Comrade Malek Shahin

PFLP mourns the martyr, Comrade Malek Shahin

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine mourns our martyred comrade, Malek Akram Shahin, 19, killed at dawn on December 8 by heavily armed occupation forces who invaded Dheisheh refugee camp, violently attacking the Palestinian refugees in the camp. 

The occupation military forces killed Comrade Shahin as part of their violent “arrest” raid on the camp, abducting six Palestinians and demanding many comrades in the camp report for interrogation. He was left to bleed in the street for a long period of time and prevented from reaching a hospital, and was then pronounced dead at Beit Jala Hospital. 

The Front salutes the heroic martyr, praises his commitment to struggle and to confront the occupier and its storming of the camp. The continued targeting of the cadres and members of the Front in Dheisheh camp by the occupation forces, including the broad arrest campaign against them, will not extinguish the flame of the intifada nor the commitment of the Front, especially on the eve of the 48th anniversary of the Front’s founding. 

The occupation is continually carrying out heinous crimes against our Palestinian youth, who are leading the struggle and in the forefront of confrontation of the occupation; their attacks will not silence our youth nor prevent them from continuing to escalate the confrontation with the occupier and its soldiers and settlers.

Thousands marched in Comrade Malek Shahin’s funeral, honoring this beloved and brave revolutionary youth and pledging to continue the intifada.