PALESTINE – The Diplomacy Committee of the Kurdish and Internationalist Youth is now present in Palestine and shared a report on the current situation on the last days, the report can be read as it follows:
“Since the Israeli army bombed the Palestinian open-air prison in Gaza with air strikes on Aug. 5, the situation has escalated again. Under the pretext of ‘fighting terrorism,’ Israel is firing missiles at Gaza to supposedly kill PIJ jihadists exclusively. Ostensibly, they want to avoid civilian casualties, but of the more than 32 killed so far, the majority are civilians.
Operation ‘Dawn’, scheduled for the whole of next week, is a planned military action by Israeli Zionism against the people of Gaza. It already began with an operation against a leading member of the PIJ (Palestinian Islamic Jihad) and is now expanding to a collective punishment of the population of Gaza. PIJ militants, for their part, are responding to the attacks by launching rockets at various areas in Israel.
As a Kurdish and internationalist youth delegation, we are currently still in the West Bank. Near Tel Aviv and Al-Quds (Jerusalem), rockets of the PIJ have arrived on country roads. While in 5 cities Israelis and Palestinians already held protests together against the attacks on Gaza, ultra-right settlers in Al-Quds announced the storming of the Al-Aksa mosque. This escalation of the war is the strongest since May 10 last year. That Gaza has been bombed repeatedly for decades is part of the Zionist extermination plan and the total dehumanization and collective torture of the Palestinian people. It is the continuation of the Nakba that has never stopped since ’48 – the continuation of the Zionist policy of extermination.
Although the scale and explicitness of the violence in Gaza and the West Bank differ, in essence it is the same policy, the same agenda. Nevertheless, the tension is clearly felt in the West Bank as well. In the global media, a conflict is constructed between Jewish Israel and Islamist currents of Palestine. This narrative of a religious conflict between a state and extremist terrorists not only aims at further escalation, but also undercuts Palestinian solidarity and common resistance. Although the political currents and representations in each of Gaza and the West Bank differ greatly, and there is great resentment especially among the progressive population of Palestine over their political practices, there is strong cohesion and solidarity across the common stance against the Zionist attacks.
Nevertheless, solidarity within Palestine must not be rested on. Every imperialist war always has its roots in Western countries, and that is where it is necessary to attack them. Be it the war industry that supplies Turkey or the anti-Palestinian repression in Germany. ‘He who hates the Jews is the greatest friend of the Zionis’ was a comment of a Jewish comrade of the Farkha Festival. Those who hate the Jews do everything to get rid of them from their own country and to strengthen the fascism of the Zionists. Therefore, it is necessary to stand and fight internationally with our Palestinian brothers and sisters!
Long live the international solidarity!”
