The 75th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, i.e. the Day of the Great Catastrophe, which symbolizes the suffering and persecution of the Palestinian people since the establishment of the Israeli state on Palestinian land, was marked on Sunday in front of the Cathedral of the Heart of Jesus in Sarajevo, reports Anadolia.
The gathering of support and solidarity with the Palestinian people was organized by the Association of the Palestinian Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Association of Bosnian-Palestinian Friendship in coordination with the Embassy of the State of Palestine in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The Palestinian community in Bosnia and Herzegovina called on the international community to assume its responsibilities and start solving “the disaster it produced itself and to restore peace in the Land of Peace.”
“Today we are sending a message from European Jerusalem to the international community, the European Union, that they must stop their endless support for Israel. Israel, which was created by UN Resolution 181, is an occupier that does not respect any resolution,” said the president of the Association of the Palestinian Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Majed Maarouf
He reminded that 531 Palestinian villages were completely destroyed after the Palestinians were expelled from the Israeli authorities in 1948.
“The Palestinian people have remained and will remain on their hearths in Palestine. We will win, God willing. We are here for peace, but for a just and lasting peace in the Middle East. We ask that Resolution 181 be respected, by which Israel was founded, by which the Palestinian people get 44 percent of the historic Palestinian land area, not 28 percent,” Maarouf said.
They point out that Israel is the only country in the world that was founded by a UN resolution, and despite that, it continuously violates and disrespects them.
Avdo Hebib, president of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian-Palestinian Friendship Association, said that today’s event is one of a series of activities aimed at supporting the Palestinian people for their freedom and struggle for the liberation of Palestine.
“The big problem is that a large number of media informs incompletely or incorrectly about the current situation in Palestine and what is happening there, about the murders in Al-Aqsa for Ramadan, the persecutions, about hundreds of children without any trial in prisons, about mothers who give birth to children in prisons… We don’t have enough of that information, the world is largely silent, uninformed,” said Hebib and added:
“No one knows better than us Bosnians and Herzegovinans what kind of pains and troubles the Palestinian people are struggling with, because we survived it all together.”
Roba Al Jamal from the Embassy of the State of Palestine in Bosnia and Herzegovina said that the Palestinians have no choice but to continue their goal and survival, and to call for their rights.
“The Palestinian cause is justified. What we must do is to continue, generation after generation. We will never give up and God willing we will return to our homes,” Al Jamal said.
Today’s meeting in Sarajevo was attended by representatives of the Embassy of Libya in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Embassy of Pakistan, the Embassy of Iran and the Embassy of Turkey in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Palestinians are commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Nakba, or the Day of the Great Catastrophe, which symbolizes the suffering and persecution of the Palestinian people since the establishment of the Israeli state on Palestinian land. Millions of Palestinians still have refugee status today and dream of the day when they will return to their homeland.
The Palestinian-Israeli conflict dates back to 1917, when the British government, in the Balfour Declaration known today, called for the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine.
According to the Palestine Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the Nakba resulted in the displacement of nearly 800,000 Palestinians out of the 1.4 million Palestinians who lived in historic Palestine in 1948 into 1,300 villages and towns.
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