On the Ain al-Hilweh Massacre and the Ongoing Aggression Against Gaza
Khatib: Our Responsibility in the Diaspora Requires a New Revolutionary State to Confront Liquidation and Genocide
Mohammed Khatib, a member of the Executive Committee of the Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement, affirmed that the massacre committed by the Zionist enemy last night in the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon constitutes “a U.S.-Zionist crime added to the ongoing genocide against our people in Gaza and the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon and the diaspora.” He considered the targeting of Ain al-Hilweh camp “a dangerous escalation aimed at spreading chaos and striking and dismantling refugee communities in preparation for their renewed displacement and the imposition of normalization, domination, and liquidation projects.”
Khatib said that the continuation of the aggression against Gaza and Lebanon for 25 months, now extending to the camps, “requires our people in the diaspora to create a new revolutionary reality based on popular initiative rather than seasonal reactions.” He called upon Palestinians and their supporters in Europe, the Americas, Africa, and all places of refuge to “express their anger, take to the streets, besiege the embassies of the enemy and its allies, escalate forms of popular pressure and direct action, and use effective and impactful methods.”
Khatib stressed that “the blood of the martyrs of Ain al-Hilweh, Gaza, the West Bank, and those in Zionist prisons and detention centers unites our people everywhere. It now imposes on the resistance forces in the region and the popular movements the necessity of swiftly acting to build a unified national front that responds to the current challenges and leads the confrontation from all fronts,” holding the incapable regimes and leaders, and the colluding and complicit “Palestinian Authority,” responsible for their “suspicious silence in the face of the massacres.”
He added that what is required today is “the unification of arenas and fronts of struggle, blocking the path to displacement projects, and reviving the militant role of the camps as incubators of revolution and intifada,” affirming that the refugees’ right of return to Palestine “will not fall no matter how intense the aggression or how varied its tools.”
Khatib concluded by saluting the people of Ain al-Hilweh camp, “who confront the Zionist crime and siege with unbreakable steadfastness,” and the people of Gaza, “who are creating an epic of historic resilience,” affirming that “resistance will remain our people’s only option until the liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea.”