BREAKING: HAMAS STATEMENT - WORLD REFUGEE DAY
Hamas (1/2):
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“In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
On World Refugee Day: Al-Aqsa Flood has brought global attention back to the Palestinian refugee cause, highlighting its justice and legitimacy, thwarting efforts to erase and obscure it. We call for enabling our people to achieve their national rights to freedom, independence, return, and an end to the occupation.
World Refugee Day comes while the zionist occupation continues to commit the most heinous crimes and brutal massacres against our entire people, especially Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and occupied Al-Quds, in a Nazi war and ongoing fascist aggression for more than eight months. It has destroyed all means of human life for Palestinian refugees and practiced all forms of retaliatory killing, random bombing, starvation, dehydration, and genocide against them.
The United Nations and the world’s celebration of World Refugee Day, amidst the ongoing genocide war against our people in the Gaza Strip, which has exacerbated the conditions of the refugees and displaced persons, especially since last October 7th, places them all in the face of a humanitarian, rights-based, and moral responsibility to put an end to the continuous zionist aggression and criminality against Palestinian refugees in the camps of Gaza, the West Bank, and Al-Quds, whose tragedy deepens daily due to escalating zionist criminality.
The Palestinian refugee camps inside and outside Palestine have been prominent witnesses to the Nakba of the Palestinian people and their continuous suffering and pain since 1948, when zionist gangs displaced more than 57% of our people from their land. These camps have also been one of the biggest living witnesses to the zionist crimes against our people. At the same time, these camps have always been a source of insistence on adhering to principles and sanctities, a symbol of resistance to all attempts to erase the right of return and obscure their legitimate rights, and a landmark of struggle, heroism, and resistance against the aggression, invasions, and crimes of the occupation, and in defense of themselves, their land, and their sanctities.
The heroic epics of valor and legendary steadfastness in the Battle of the Al-Aqsa Flood, written by the sons of the Jabalia, Khan Younis, Al-Shati', Al-Maghazi, Al-Nusseirat, Al-Bureij, and Deir Al-Balah camps, and Rafah in the Gaza Strip, and the camps of Jenin, Tulkarem, Shu'fat, Aqabat Jaber, and Nour Shams in the West Bank and Al-Quds, are evidence of the deep roots of Palestinian refugees in their land, their adherence to their rights and sanctities, and their embrace of resistance, their loyalty to the blood of the martyrs and the sacrifices of the prisoners, and their commitment to this path until the occupation is defeated and removed.”
Hamas (2/2):
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“On this World Refugee Day, we in the Hamas movement affirm the following:
Firstly: We send greetings of firmness, steadfastness, and near victory, Allah willing, to all our refugee people in the interior and in the diaspora. We express our pride and honor in the legendary steadfastness demonstrated by Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip during the ongoing battle of Al-Aqsa Flood. We commend the active role of all Palestinian refugees in national unity behind the resistance. We ask Allah mercy for their martyrs, wish a speedy recovery to their wounded, and appreciate their achievements and sacrifices on the path to liberating the land and sanctities and achieving the right of return.
Secondly: The ongoing battle of Al-Aqsa Flood, with all its strength, determination, and bravery, has embodied a heroic epic created by the unity of our people in the Gaza Strip with their victorious resistance in every inch of this blessed land. It has brought global attention back to the Palestinian refugee cause as a just and legitimate cause, thwarting all attempts by the zionist occupation and its supporters to obscure or erase it and has brought our people's march closer to comprehensive liberation and the near return, God willing.
Thirdly: The right of return for all refugees from our people to their homes from which they were forcibly and unjustly displaced is a sacred right passed down through Palestinian generations and is non-negotiable or subject to compromise. We renew our absolute rejection of all solutions aimed at dropping this legitimate national right, which is enshrined in all international charters and laws. Our people will continue their comprehensive resistance in all arenas inside and outside the homeland until they regain all their rights.
Fourthly: We reject and denounce all zionist attempts, supported by the American administration, to erase, obscure, and cancel the role of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). We reaffirm the agency's direct responsibility to continuously provide services to all Palestinian refugees, especially in the Gaza Strip amidst the ongoing genocide war against innocent civilians, refugees, and displaced persons.
Fifthly: We call on our refugee people inside and in the diaspora to strengthen their unity and national cohesion, and to consolidate bonds of cooperation and solidarity in facing the occupation’s plans and aggressive projects, and to keep their camps as symbols of resistance and unity and adherence to their rights and principles until liberation and return.
Sixthly: We call on the United Nations, the international community, all host countries of Palestinian refugees, and all human rights and humanitarian institutions to take responsibility for protecting the rights of our refugee people, enabling them to live free and dignified lives on their land, and supporting their steadfastness and struggle. They reject all forms of resettlement and alternative homeland solutions and are always looking forward to their near return to their lands from which they were displaced due to the zionist occupation.
Islamic Resistance Movement - Hamas
Thursday: 14 Dhu al-Hijjah 1445 AH
Corresponding to: June 20, 2024”
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