PFLP Statement on the Current State of the Aggression Against Gaza

The Political Bureau of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine held a regular meeting to discuss the developments of the aggression and the situation on the Palestinian, Arab, and international levels. The meeting began by saluting the Palestinian fighter’s courage and heroism in the field, praising the legendary steadfastness of our people in facing the zionist-Nazi holocaust, the likes of which the world has never witnessed in its criminality and brutality.

The Political Bureau noted the relative and significant shifts in international public opinion, with Palestine taking center stage in the international scene and political deliberations, exerting real pressure on countries around the world, especially Western countries. Despite formal shifts in American rhetoric, the American support for the genocide as a military tool to achieve the American political vision remains in place and plays a primary role in the aggression.

The Political Bureau warned of the American ideas carried by its Secretary of State and envoys to the region, and attempts to promote them, benefiting from a state of official Arab alignment with them, and a weakness in the Arab public’s reaction to the genocide and the conspiracy to liquidate the Palestinian presence.

The Political Bureau also warned of the danger of the American paper for the so-called “day after,” aimed at destroying the resistance in Gaza, imposing a settlement based on comprehensive Arab normalization with the zionist enemy, surpassing Palestinian rights under the guise of an American roadmap for an illusory Palestinian state, and erasing Palestinian representation to reconfigure it according to American standards.

The Political Bureau considered the American entry into the Gaza Strip’s humanitarian crisis by announcing a project for a floating seaport and a bridge linking the Gaza Strip shore to this port as an integral part of the American project to create a foothold for imposing international guardianship and creating a dependent administration in Gaza that operates under occupation and in cooperation with it, as a gateway to erase any real Palestinian representation and replace it with a grotesque creation made in America.

The Political Bureau reiterated the Popular Front’s clear position strongly in rejection of this project and the importance of building a factional stance in agreement with it, especially as it completely intersects with the vision of the enemy’s military and security establishment regarding military control over the Gaza Strip, and forming a cooperative administration therein, betting on attracting some tribal structures and personalities.

The Political Bureau called on some Arab governments not to cooperate with this project, which also carries an agenda for displacing our people and separating them from their Arab depth through an alternative to the Rafah crossing, expressing a state of complicity that Arab regimes are getting involved with the zionist enemy, harming the Palestinian cause and Egypt’s strategic interests, with some regimes intentionally indulging in collusion and inability to confront it.

The Political Bureau alerted to the state of conflict within the zionist war leadership, and voices from former military officials and advisors that “israel” is on its way to a strategic defeat due to the lack of a political plan to exit the quagmire of Gaza, and that everyone within the entity agrees that a devastating storm will ravage the scene inside the entity, after the investigation into the utter failure of October 7, the results of the war on the Gaza Strip, and the future of this battle on the entity and its existence, which requires turning it into a winning Palestinian card in deepening and expanding the confrontation with this zionist entity.

The Political Bureau emphasized the necessity of achieving a unified Palestinian stance in the face of the enemy, preventing the isolation of any faction or Palestinian component, and allowing the creation of a national front of resistance against the enemy. This requires responding to its ongoing initiative for national consensus and bridging the differences between all Palestinian forces, preventing the enemy from benefiting from them, and opening the door to the risks of passing the imposition of Arab security guardianship over the Gaza Strip.

The Political Bureau demanded the abandonment from the illusion of wrong bets and meaningless policies of exclusivity, creating negative climates and narrow political confrontations, diverting the struggle from its main compass with the zionist enemy, which urgently and objectively calls for the formulation of a unified political vision carried by the formation of a temporary national emergency leadership, in a manner that rises to the level of horrors faced by our steadfast people facing daily massacres, starvation, settlement, Judaization, and assaults across the Palestinian land. What this requires is the Palestinian leadership to return to the right path by breaking away from the Oslo Accords and its security and political commitments and stopping all forms of security coordination with the zionist entity, and all forms of political pursuit and arrest.

The Political Bureau stressed that there is a Palestinian consensus on the priority of stopping the aggression, concluding an exchange deal, and the return of the displaced to their homes and areas from which they were displaced, stressing that the zionist terrorist regime worked to obstruct reaching an end to the aggression and the series of systematic slaughter, and postponed the deal more than once with new demands, because his bet and endeavor is to extract his prisoners from the hands of the resistance and then continue the aggression indefinitely and employ the weapon of starvation in this direction in the hope of achieving in negotiations, what he could not achieve at the level of military confrontation.

The Political Bureau appreciated the role of the steadfast resistance with all its factions in Gaza, with its individuals, leaders, and tools of fighting, and as the sincere expression of our Palestinian national liberation project and the will of this people in the historic clash with the enemy. [We] praise the extension of the resistance and the activity of all its forces in the occupied West Bank, and the possibility of expanding its armed or popular dimension exhausts the enemy, disperses his forces, and confuses his plans, movements, and colonial, settlement, and racist projects.

The Political Bureau expressed its appreciation and pride in the legendary steadfastness of the Palestinian male and female prisoners in the occupation prisons, led by comrade commander and Secretary-General Ahmed Saadat, who are confronting, with an unbreakable will of steel, a frenzied zionist campaign that escalated after October 7th, reiterating the responsibility of international institutions, with the Red Cross at its heart, in revealing the fate of a large number of prisoners who were kidnapped from the Gaza Strip.

At the conclusion of its statement, the Political Bureau affirmed confidence in victory and confidence in the continuation of the resistance, the resilience of its fighters, and its steadfastness in the comprehensive sense, which is ultimately capable of exhausting the enemy, defeating it, and forcing it to withdraw.

Whatever the time frame of the enemy’s plans to keep occupation forces in Gaza, the strikes on these forces will never stop, coinciding with the continuation of the daily fiery weight of Hezbollah’s strikes, whose strikes and reactions will be harsher and more severe, and in light of the dear Yemen and its army, and the Iraqi resistance in its targeting of the enemy and its allies. And what awaits in terms of broader engagement and major missions to exhaust the zionist-American enemy, and a future starting point for expanding the scope of the battle, expands and develops.

At the conclusion of its work, the Political Bureau expressed its high appreciation for the Russian, Chinese, and Algerian position in dropping the American draft resolution submitted to the Security Council, which carries out political deception to legitimize aggression and legalize genocide, and gives the war a new opportunity instead of stopping it.

Glory to the martyrs and freedom to the heroic prisoners.
Victory is certainly our people’s ally.

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Political Bureau
22-3-2024