Gaza & Palestine
A citizen was injured by occupation forces' gunfire east of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip
Israeli artillery shelling on Al-Tuffah neighborhood northeast of Gaza City
Occupation forces open heavy fire east of Gaza City
Two people injured by Israeli army fire on Salah al-Din Street east of Nuseirat camp in central Gaza Strip
Civil Defense: Today, 16 martyrs were recovered, all of them in Gaza Governorate
Two injured by Israeli army gunfire in the back and hand in Al-Bureij camp in central Gaza Strip
Head of the National Relations Department in Hamas abroad, Ali Baraka:
▪ We denounce the continued policy of appointment, exclusion and unilateralism in reconstituting the Palestinian National Council, and the opening of factional electoral assemblies that do not reflect the representation of all members of our Palestinian people in the host countries. ▪ One of the most basic rights of our Palestinian people abroad is to elect their representatives in the National Council through free and direct elections. If elections are not possible, the alternative is comprehensive national consensus, not appointment or the imposition of factional representation by one side. ▪ The control of one party over the reconstitution of the institutions of the Palestine Liberation Organization at this sensitive stage does not serve national unity, but rather deepens division and fragmentation, and we are in urgent need of national partnership and the unification of efforts to confront the occupation, settlement, Judaization, displacement and the ongoing aggression against our people in Gaza, the West Bank and Jerusalem, and to defend our land, holy sites and national rights. ▪ Depriving Palestinian refugees abroad of their right to choose their representatives is a reduction of their national and democratic rights, in light of what our people have suffered from uprooting and displacement since the Nakba of 1948, and the continued right of return to our homes and our displaced property remains a fixed right that does not lapse with time. ▪ We call on all Palestinian factions, forces and national figures to assume their responsibility, reject appointment, exclusion, unilateralism and monopolization of the national decision, and abide by the national understandings and agreements since the Cairo dialogue on 17 March 2005 until the Beijing Declaration on 23 July 2024, which stressed the need to rebuild and activate the Palestine Liberation Organization according to democratic, participatory and national foundations. ▪ We affirm that the Palestinian National Council must be a comprehensive national framework for all members of our people at home and in the diaspora, not an institution that excludes and appoints, and that rebuilding the Palestine Liberation Organization will only be achieved through national partnership and respect for the will of the Palestinian people and their right to choose their representatives freely.
