Khaberni - Today, the twenty-ninth of November, marks the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, an event the United Nations commemorates every year, coinciding with the day the General Assembly adopted the Partition Resolution No. (181).
The International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People has gained increased importance over the past two years, given the catastrophic conditions in the Gaza Strip due to the genocide waged by the occupation army on October 7, 2023, which left over 160,000 dead and injured, most of them children and women, more than 10,000 missing, amidst massive destruction and a famine that killed dozens of children and elderly, in one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world.
In condemnation of these massacres, thousands of demonstrations, vigils, and events have been organized in the streets and main squares, and in universities and schools, in many capitals and cities around the world.
Alongside popular movements, international solidarity has manifested in the filing of lawsuits against the occupation and its officials at the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court, severing diplomatic relations with the occupation system, leading to a series of recognitions of the State of Palestine, and the issuance of arrest warrants for the occupation's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former army minister Yoav Gallant.
On this day, cultural events and political and public solidarity festivals are held, by solidarity movements and political committees, in addition to Palestinian embassies, and those who believe in the justice of the Palestinian cause.
In response to a call from the United Nations, governments and civil societies annually engage in various activities to celebrate the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, which include issuing special messages in solidarity with the Palestinian people, meetings, distributing publications, and other media materials, and movie screenings.
At the United Nations headquarters in New York, the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People holds a special session annually to celebrate this international day of solidarity.
The Division for Palestinian Rights of the UN Secretariat annually publishes a special bulletin including texts of statements delivered and messages received on the occasion of the International Day of Solidarity, and among other activities organized in New York as part of the celebration, there is a Palestinian exhibition or cultural event sponsored and organized by the Committee and the Palestinian Mission to the United Nations, along with film screenings.
The International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People serves as an opportunity to draw the international community's attention to the fact that the Palestinian issue remains unresolved to this day, despite the passage of decades and the adoption of numerous relevant international resolutions, and that the Palestinian people have not yet obtained their inalienable rights as defined by the General Assembly, which is the right to self-determination free from external interference, akin to all other peoples of the world, the establishment of an independent and sovereign State of Palestine with East Jerusalem as its capital on the 1967 borders, and the right of Palestinians to return to their homes and properties they were displaced from.
On November 29, 2012, Palestine joined the United Nations as a "non-member observer state," and on September 30, 2015, the Palestinian flag was raised in front of United Nations offices and headquarters around the world.
