From Faisal Al-Husseini to the Shuqif… A Homeland Passes the Flag of Liberation from Generation to Generation

Between yesterday and tomorrow… Palestine stands

to read the names of its men as great nations read; not as trivial details in memory, but as an extended journey of heroism, faith, and meaning.

Yesterday, we commemorated the martyrdom of our brother leader Faisal Al-Husseini… the son of Jerusalem who never left it, even when he was far from it. A man who carried Palestine in his voice, stance, and dignity, and held Jerusalem like a believer holds his last prayer with complete sincerity without knowing retreat.

Faisal Al-Husseini was not just a Fatah leader or a national official, but a noble image of the Palestine we desire. A Palestine deep in its culture, clear in its identity, believing in its right, and steadfast against all attempts at uprooting and distortion. He was a son of the Fatah movement that learned how to create from men a national project and how to make the leader a moral state before being a position or title.

When he passed away on the thirty-first of May, that date did not turn into just a day of sorrow, but became a national station bearing the meaning of true liberation; because some men depart with their bodies but leave behind a homeland that is more solid and a people more faithful and a flag that is higher.

Tomorrow, we will commemorate the anniversary of the Battle of Shuqif… that eternal Palestinian moment when the castle became a legend of resistance, and the Palestinian fighter transformed into a symbol of courage that transcends military calculations and impossible circumstances.

In Shuqif, the Palestinian fighter was not just defending a military position, but was defending the image of the Palestinian in the entire human consciousness. That human who may be besieged, targeted, or sometimes let down, but who does not break and does not raise the white flag.

There, above the stones of the castle, the Palestinian fighter wrote one of the purest and most proud pages of the Palestinian revolution. He proved that Fatah and the Palestinian revolution were never just a fleeting political event, but an ongoing project of dignity, where the flag is passed from generation to generation, from martyr to martyr, and from fighter to a child who memorizes the name of Palestine before learning the names of cities.

Those who read these dates well realize that the battle for Palestinian national liberation has not yet ended, and that the path treaded by martyrs is still open before a people who have decided to cling to their rights no matter how long it takes. For the Palestinian national project, carried by the Palestine Liberation Organization with the consciousness of its people and the sacrifices of its generations, has never been a project of a fleeting moment, but a project of a people who seek freedom, independence, and full national dignity.

Conditions may change, crises may intensify, and challenges may accumulate, but the peoples who have given birth to men like Faisal Al-Husseini, and who have provided the heroics of Shuqif, cannot abandon their dream or lose faith in the triumph of their cause. For Palestine, which has managed to remain alive despite all this pain, knows well how to protect its narrative, how to regenerate its strength, and how to continue its path until achieving its national goals.

Thus, the Palestinian story always goes on… from Faisal Al-Husseini, who guarded Jerusalem with words and stances, to the fighters of Shuqif who guarded dignity with blood and fire. Names differ, but the spirit is one, the flag is one, and the belonging to Palestine remains the deepest meaning that does not change.

This is the Fatah movement… which has never ceased to present the image of the resistant, cultured, faithful, patient Palestinian, transcending all attempts at breaking and erasure. A movement that knows that homelands are not built with noise, but with long sacrifices and men who resemble Palestine in its pride, patience, and perpetual ability to rise.

Only the living peoples are capable of creating heroism from generation to generation… and Palestine, from its beginning until now, has not ceased to give birth to its men.