These are the questions we must ask ourselves, today and every day.
This year, Eid Al-Fitr falls on Land Day (Yom al-Ard), which embodies the history of our people’s struggle in defense of our land, and our struggle to liberate it and return to it.
From March 30th, 1976 when six Palestinians were martyred on the first Land Day while resisting the theft of Palestinian lands in al-Jalil, to 2018 when thousands of Palestinians in Gaza marched on the border fence and 17 people were murdered by israeli snipers on the first day of the Great Return March. This year, Land Day and Eid arrive at a time when the entire region — from Lebanon to Yemen — will mark these days under the weight of grief and rage, as the zionist-American entity continues to massacre their people and turn their homes to rubble.
In the northern West Bank, the Jenin, Nour Shams, and Tulkarem refugee camps have been facing ongoing destruction and displacement, rendering their homes completely uninhabitable due to the ongoing siege and aggression carried out by both the occupation and the Palestinian Authority forces. This is the heavy price paid for standing on the front lines for complete liberation.
Today we are reminded that the struggle for Gaza is not just a fight to end the ongoing genocide. It is not just a fight to end the siege and blockade. It is not just a fight to free our prisoners. It is not just a fight to stop the targeting of hospitals, of healthcare workers, of journalists. It is not just a fight to end all U.S. military aid to the zionist entity.
The struggle for Gaza is the struggle of Palestine. It is the struggle for full liberation from the river to the sea. It is the struggle of our parents, and of our grandparents, of all those who came before us.
And is this struggle that we commit ourselves to, as Palestinians in exile, as Muslims, as people of conscience living in the belly of the beast. For freedom, justice and return within our lifetime.🇵🇸
Photo description: Palestinians break their fast on the rubble of Masjid Salim Abu Muslim in Beit Lahia, Northern Gaza on March 13th 2025 (By Ali Jadallah)
