The Palestinian National Council (PNC) said that our people today are more committed to their national rights and more insistent on refusing to accept the occupier realities of controlling the land and preventing the possibility of establishing the Palestinian independent state with Jerusalem as its capital.

In a statement issued this evening, Saturday, on the occasion of the 74th anniversary of Nakba, PNC added, "The Palestinian people have succeeded in the past to thwart many projects to eliminate our Palestinian national cause. As a result of the unity and resistance of Palestinian people, and the unity of their political program embodied in the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Palestinians were able to restore their cause after it was lost in the drawers of the United Nations."

He said: The Palestinian people all forces, political and popular spectrum wherever they live, are commemorating the Nakba, which was the outcome of the most heinous crime committed against Palestinians by the Zionist gangs backed by the forces of Western colonialism.

The statement continued: "For 74 years, our people are united in the face of the Zionist project, which continues in more than one form. The daily crimes committed by the Israeli occupation soldiers in Palestine, the acceleration of settlement operations, the theft of land, arrests, and the practice of all kinds of terrorism, are a continuation and extension of the Nakba. The Israeli occupation was unable to achieve its project due to the resistance and steadfastness of Palestinian people, who stand alone and, on behalf of humanity, confronting the Zionist project, which has become a danger to the whole world due to its aggression, arrogance, and violation of the most basic rules of international law, but rather a violation of all humanitarian standards."

The Presidency of the PNC affirmed that Palestinian people adhere to their national rights is supported by dozens of international resolutions. Our national unity is a prerequisite for victory. We reiterate the need to make all efforts to end the division and work to implement what the national bodies agreed upon, especially the decisions of the PNC and the Central Council, and putting the decisions into direct implementation, according to the President's assertion at the funeral of journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh, which constitutes a response to the policy of murder and terrorism practiced by Israel against our people and requires quick action to bring Israel and its leaders to an international trial.

PNC called for commemorating the Nakba with what meets the occasion of unified national activities that affirm the unity of Palestinian people and confirm the inalienable national rights, and called on all our people - inside and outside Palestine - to actively participate in all national activities to commemorate the Nakba in a unified message to the world, expressing the Palestinian people's insistence on refusing to surrender to the effects of the Nakba on the level of displacement of our people and Israeli occupation of their land by force of terrorism. The flag of Palestine must be raised, to constitute a message of Palestinian adherence to the right to continue the struggle to extract our full rights in a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, and the return of the refugees.