Ministry Of Youth, Sports & Culture 64th Nakba Commemoration

The Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture today held an event in front of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) in Gaza City to launch a series of activities to commemorate the 64th anniversary of the Nakba.

The Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture Mohammad Elmadhoun and the Deputy-Head of the PLC Dr Ahmed Bahar, as well as other PLC representatives and officials, attended.

Elmadhoun said the activities commemorating El Nakba will continue until 5th June, and announced an initiative of the Ministry of Culture called The Million Fingerprints. This project calls on the Palestinian people to make a personal vow to return to the occupied territories, especially Jerusalem, by putting their fingerprint on banners hanging outside the PLC.

Other activities to commemorate El Nakba were a marathon run this morning in which the Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh participated, the launch of an electronic encyclopaedia about El Nakba on Wednesday, and those which the Palestinian government will implement in co-operation with a number of local community and national organisations.

Dr Bahar confirmed the commitment of the Palestinian people to the right of return to all places they were forced to leave in 1948, saying that the Israeli state was founded on the blood of Palestinian martyrs.

He reiterated the commitment of all Palestinians to free Palestine “from the river to the sea,” stressing their inalienable right of return to the lands they had occupied for thousands of years and for which they continue to fight, saying they will not renounce even a grain of sand.

He emphasised that the right of return is religious, historical, humanitarian, and political and they will accept nothing less than to return to Palestine.

Dr Bahar also mentioned the victory of the prisoners’ hunger-strike in achieving basic human rights through their determination against the Israeli prison administration, saying that this victory is another step on the way to achieving the freedom of Palestine.

“The Palestinian cause is a just one, and the world must stand in support of it,” he said.

Bahar stressed that the PLC remains committed to upholding all the rights of the prisoners, and of the Palestinian people.

After the speeches, the dignitaries all put their fingerprints on the banners.

Dr Ahmed Bahar, Deputy Head of the PLC speaks at the Press Conference

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Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture Mohammad Almadhoun adds his fingerprint

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