A Massive Stand in Tulkarem in Support of Prisoners and Commemorating the 78th Anniversary of the Nakba

SadaNews - The Higher National Committee for Commemorating the 78th Anniversary of the Nakba, the Palestinian General Federation of Women, and prisoner institutions and committees in Tulkarem organized a large public stand today, Tuesday, in front of the Red Cross office in the city, in solidarity with the prisoners in the occupation's prisons and in commemoration of the Nakba.

Representatives from official and popular institutions, national action factions, women's frameworks, along with children from the Andalus Kindergarten in the Tulkarem refugee camp, participated in the stand, chanting national slogans affirming the right of return for the refugees and displaced individuals to their cities, villages, and camps from which they were displaced.

Participants called on the International Committee of the Red Cross and international institutions to bear their responsibilities towards the prisoners and to work on protecting them from the violations, humiliation, and daily torture they face inside the occupation's prisons.

Tulkarem Deputy Governor Faisal Salama stated that the occupation continues to commit massacres and deliberate killings, demolishing homes and forcibly displacing the residents of the Jenin, Tulkarem, and Nur Shams camps, as part of its plans aimed at uprooting the Palestinian people from their land.

He added that the Palestinian people will remain steadfast and enduring until the end of the occupation and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, emphasizing that the issue of prisoners represents a national priority for the Palestinian leadership, and that national unity is the path to victory and the return of refugees and the release of prisoners.

For her part, the head of the Palestinian General Federation of Women in Tulkarem, Nada Tawir, stated in a message from the national action factions that the 78th anniversary of the Nakba comes this year amid the most dangerous phases facing the Palestinian cause, with the ongoing genocide and forced displacement against the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank.

She added that Palestinian camps are facing systematic uprooting and destruction, alongside attempts to undermine the UNRWA and erase the right of return, stressing adherence to the Palestinian narrative and the memory of generations that preserves the history of the homeland.

Tawir called on the international community to urgently intervene to protect the refugees and the camps, support the steadfastness of the Palestinian people, and work to implement the international resolution 194, holding the occupation accountable for its crimes against Palestinians, especially in the Gaza Strip.

For his part, the director of the Prisoners Club office in Tulkarem, Ibrahim Al-Nemer, stated that the Nakba is still ongoing in new forms, amid what the Tulkarem, Nur Shams, and Jenin camps are experiencing regarding displacement that has affected tens of thousands of Palestinian families.

He noted that the Palestinian prisoners, estimated at around 10,000, are living under harsh and unprecedented conditions of starvation, beatings, medical neglect, and systematic killing, in a blatant violation of international humanitarian law.