Statement of the International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity on October 7, 2024
Cease Fire Now!
The Resistance Will Win!
One year, 365 days of accelerated and intensified genocide against the Palestinian people.
One year of heroic Palestinian resistance to the massacre, bombings, forced displacement, kidnapping, torture, detentions, apartheid, extermination and unspeakable pain of slaughtered children, women and entire families.
A year without medical supplies, without medicines, without food, without water. One year of absolute siege and brutal destruction of more than 70% of Gaza’s territory.
It is 76 years of resistance against the Zionist invader in which the Palestinian people have daily exercised their right to resist in different forms and methods.
On October 7, 2023, the resistance marked a new stage in the history of the struggle against the occupation. The truth must be told: On that day of the Al Aqsa Flood, the military installations of the occupation were attacked, causing more than 57 casualties to the army and hundreds of prisoners were taken from the occupiers in the military zone, with the aim of exchanging them for Palestinian prisoners, children, women, the sick and the elderly, who for years have been suffering all kinds of torture in the brutal prisons of Israel.
It is absolutely false that they provoked the death of 1200 people, raped Hebrew women or beheaded babies, it is not only forbidden by the Muslim, Islamic, Christian and agnostic religion of which the United Resistance is composed, it is forbidden by their ethics and their human condition as Palestinian national liberation fighters.
Nor is it true that they attacked young people attending a music festival. The attack was carried out by the Israeli army by confusing the young people gathered there, who left in stampede. Everything has been denounced and verified. Hamas has requested an Independent International Commission to verify all this, which the Zionist and imperialist narrative hides from the world, to justify the genocide and occupation.
From the first day the Resistance was ready to exchange the detainees for all Palestinian prisoners: All for All.
Israel’s response was constant bombing, dropping more tons of bombs than during the Second World War. They have used banned weapons of war such as white phosphorus bombs, GBU vacuum bombs that pulverize everything, F35 and F15 fighter jets, drones and missiles, massacring thousands of children and civilian population.
The lying narrative of hatred and apartheid imposed by the Israeli colonial occupation, aims to erase the soul, lives, history and culture of the Palestinian people.
For the Israeli criminal entity, the child still in the womb of its Palestinian mother is a terrorist.
The greatest act of state terrorism has been committed by Israel before the eyes of the world, with the targeted assassinations of top leaders of the Lebanese, Iranian and Palestinian Resistance.
It was a terrorist act to plant explosives in mobile devices in Lebanon. Terrorist act is dropping hundreds of tons of bombs, destroying a dozen civilian buildings to assassinate a leader as they did in Beirut.
Terrorist act is the bombing of hospitals, ambulances, shelters, including UN shelters, schools, universities, churches, prayer centers and relief workers, firefighters and civil defense.
Terrorist act is the kidnapping and murder of doctors and health personnel for refusing to abandon their patients. The murder of the press is an act of terrorism.
We make our own the words of a Palestinian doctor: “After a year of accelerated and televised genocide, more than 50 thousand people have been martyred, more than 200 thousand civilians have been attacked, among wounded and missing. But they cannot kill in us the spirit of combat and resistance.”
“The caravans of martyrs are and will be the beacon that will lead us towards the liberation of the entire Palestinian territory, from the river to the sea, they will be remembered with their names, their dreams, achievements and lives.”
“I ask all the free men and women of the world, all those who make the Palestinian cause their own, in their daily struggle and struggle, in their denunciations and demonstrations, to denounce the governments that finance and maintain economic and political relations with the Zionist enemy. U.S. and European imperialism are the main accomplices and suppliers of the lethal weapons with which Israel massacres our people. We ask you to act in all forms of resistance forms of resistance, making alive the slogan: Behind the enemy everywhere”.
This is the horror unleashed by Zionism and imperialism. Data released by the Government of Gaza:
●69% of the victims are children and women. These are not numbers, these are lives torn, lacerated, mutilated.● 3,654 massacres
● 51,870 martyrs and missing persons.
● 16,927 martyred children, of whom 171 were newborns and infants and 710 one-year-olds.
● 11,487 women martyrs
● 41,870 martyrs when they arrived at the hospitals.
● 986 medical doctors martyred
● 396 journalists wounded
● 10,000 disappeared
● 902 families were killed and completely erased from the Civil Registry.
● 36 children died of hunger
● 175 journalists martyred
● 7 cemeteries of mass graves made by the Israeli army in hospitals, from there 530 martyrs’ corpses were taken out.
● 96,166 wounded
● 187 shelter centers were attacked and destroyed.
● 25 973 children are orphaned of a father, mother or both.
● 131 ambulances destroyed
● 34 Hospitals attacked, destroyed and taken out of service.
● 80,000 tons of bombs and missiles were dropped on the Gaza Strip.
● 8.5% of the infrastructure, houses and buildings were destroyed.
● 2,000,000 (two million) Palestinians were displaced from their homes and houses were destroyed
● 1,737,524 (one million 737,000 524) are suffering from contagious diseases due to the appalling conditions in which they live, most of them children
● 60,000 pregnant women at risk of miscarriage
● 350 000 chronically ill patients at risk of death due to lack of medicine.
● 5,000 Palestinian prisoner detainees in total, of whom 310 from the medical service and 36 journalists.
● 100,000 tent houses were destroyed, burned or deteriorated, no longer fit for living.
photo: Bill Hackwell
In the face of the uselessness of the UN, subjugated by the United States, where the genocidal Netanyahu continues to integrate its membership, manifests his lies and his atrocious crimes in which Palestine no longer exists on its maps, after a year in which the public opinion of the world was deceived with a supposed negotiation that led to nothing, and criminally dilated the time while Zionism and imperialism massacred women and children.
It is we, the people, who, with our action in the streets, in the events, in the media, call to stop once and for all the extermination and genocide.
During this year 26,000 demonstrations in 619 cities in 20 European countries were held in support of Gaza. Actions on U.S. University Campuses under brutal repression, along with demonstrations in major U.S. cities. Mobilizations, vigils and events in Latin America, around the world.
200 Actions for Gaza in 68 countries in all continents, will be carried out by the World Poetry Movement in October. New documentaries, exhibitions, literary and musical creations will be the voice that will never be silenced.
In solidarity with Gaza, for the withdrawal of Zionist occupation troops and for peace in the world.
These demonstrations of support for Palestine must be multiplied all over the world.
It is time to judge and punish the Israeli Zionists for their genocidal war crimes in Palestine and Lebanon, with the Boycott of all relations of the Israeli racist and fascist Apartheid regime which is the enemy of all humanity and threatens international peace and security .
● We demand:
– Ceasefire Now in Palestine.
– Ceasefire Now in Lebanon.
– An end to attacks on political and religious leaders in Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, Syria, Iraq and Yemen.
– An end to Israel’s Occupation of Palestine
– Return of Refugees and Freedom for all prisoners.
We support the Palestinian Resistance in its legitimate right to recover and liberate its occupied territories, in the defense of its history and culture and the sacred right to life.
Our peoples, love and long for Peace, with Justice and Dignity.
We embrace with all our love and solidarity the Palestinian and Lebanese mothers who lost their children. To all the orphaned children and adolescents. To all those who were maimed. To the children whose parents and families were massacred. To all those who lost their homes. To the journalists and news media who report in the midst of war. To the poets, writers and artists who continue to create in the midst of brutal pain and aggression. To the religious who pray for the people. To the teachers who teach in the midst of destruction. To the doctors and health personnel: Blessed are your hands. To the United and Heroic Resistance: Blessed are the fists that rise and fight against Zionism and fascism.
Long live Free Palestine, from the river to the sea!
October 7, 2024