Arab and North Africa (ArNA) region of La Via Campesina issues Solidarity to Palestine
At the recently concluded regional meeting of the ArNA members of La Via Campesina, the peasant unions issued solidarity to the Palestinian people and their struggle against a genocidal war.
Here is the full statement;
The genocidal war waged by the “Zionist” occupation against Gaza has entered its 218th consecutive day, committing the most horrific massacres recorded in Palestinian and human history, leaving tens of thousands of martyrs, wounded, and missing, ignoring all the decisions of the International Court of Justice and the Security Council, and continuing its bombing And its destruction of all areas of Gaza strip. In the latest statistics of the Palestinian Ministry of Health, the death toll from the aggression since October 7th until today has risen to 34,943 martyrs and 78,572 injuries.
LVC in the Arab and North African region notes this:
1) Express its great solidarity and absolute support for the Palestinian people in these difficult circumstances and in the face of these crimes that disgust humanity and which humanity has never witnessed before. It reiterates its call to all living, free nations and peoples for the need to continue the struggle, by all means, to support the Palestinian people and force the Zionist occupation to stop the genocide committed against the Palestinian people. It also calls for the need to put pressure on Western governments to force them to stop their shameful support for the occupation (The Zionist regime), especially stopping supplying it with all types of deadly weapons that it uses against civilians, children, and innocent people in the Gaza Strip.
2) We salute in all our expressions the struggle of the Palestinian people, who are waging a fierce, free battle, fighting with valor and determination an arrogant, criminal enemy who has nothing to do with humanity, and behind whom is fighting America, which supports and participates in this holocaust. It proves time and again the unprecedented greatness and will in the struggle for freedom and dignity of the Palestinian people, who for more than 75 years have been bravely resisting the occupation without losing their resolve or their will. It proves every day to the whole world that there is no compromise on rights, no matter how great the sacrifices are and no matter how brutal the occupier is.
3) It calls on all Arab countries that have ties with the Zionist entity to sever their relations with it immediately.
4) It declares its absolute solidarity with farmers and agricultural workers in all Palestinian land who have been subjected to the ugliest types of persecution and repression, the confiscation of their lands, homes and all their property, and they have been subjected to the ugliest types of torture, displacement, and killing.
5) It praises international solidarity and the uprising of universities around the world, especially in Europe and America, with the Palestinian resistance.
Today, the Palestinian people are offering the world another lesson in the struggle and resistance for freedom and dignity to regain their stolen land. In doing so, they are resisting on behalf of all of us this enemy that knows no mercy and has only one desperate path to continue its occupation, which is killing and destruction as its ideology.
Long live the struggle of the Palestinian people and long live a free and proud Palestine!
Arab and North Africa Region Secretariat,
Tunisia – 11/05/2024
La Via Campesina ArNa