The Preparatory Committee for the Palestinian National Conference holds a face-to-face meeting in the Qatari capital

Ramallah – Ma’an – The Preparatory Committee for the Palestinian National Conference held a face-to-face meeting in the Qatari capital, Doha, on Saturday and Sunday, October 12-13, after a series of meetings held by the committee over the past months via video conferencing (Zoom). The committee discussed a number of political issues related to the conference, its location and time. It also approved the committees that will work on preparing for the conference, which will be dissolved and hand over their duties to the conference once it is held.

The committee began its meeting by presenting a political reading of the overall current situation in Palestine and the Arab region, which is no longer limited to the occupied Palestinian territories, but has come, after the launch of the aggressive war on Lebanon, to include redrawing the map of the geo-strategic region, and seeking to restore momentum to the path of normalization without a just solution to the Palestinian issue, in a way that paves the way for the
formation of an American-Israeli-Arab axis that goes beyond normalization to an alliance.

The committee also affirmed its rejection of the plans to manage the Gaza Strip from an Israeli security perspective, within the so-called “day after.” It also stressed the need for a unified Palestinian leadership within the framework of the Palestine Liberation Organization to confront these plans, and to reject any approach based on accepting a civil administration for Gaza under Israeli security supervision or the presence of the occupation on the land of the Gaza Strip, as it considers it a step in the opposite direction to translating the sacrifices of the Palestinian people into political achievements, and even less than the Oslo Accords, which it opposes.

The committee stressed that the conference is an ongoing and continuous popular movement that seeks to form a unified national leadership that leads the national struggle, and works to ensure the unity of decision-making and the political and combative system,
and to achieve comprehensive national unity within the framework of the Palestine Liberation Organization after rebuilding it on democratic foundations, and to ensure the protection of the Palestinian people’s right to represent themselves and achieve their national goals, and to repel all attempts to falsify their will or interfere in their internal affairs, and to achieve this through democratic elections practiced by the Palestinian people in all places of their presence, which is the ideal mechanism for achieving this goal.

The committee also indicated that the conference affirms the right of the Palestinian people to struggle and resist in all its forms, in accordance with international law, to ensure the success of the Palestinian people in resisting and thwarting the Zionist colonial settlement project, ending the occupation and the racist apartheid regime, securing the right of the Palestinian people to liberation, complete freedom and self-determination, the return of Palestinian refugees to their h
omes from which they were displaced, and the right of the Palestinian people to their independent, fully sovereign democratic state with Jerusalem as its capital, while emphasizing its rejection of the doctrine of security coordination and the failure of the Oslo Agreement.

The conference also calls on all components of the Palestinian people inside and outside Palestine, based on the belief in the unity of the land, the unity of the people, the unity of the struggle and the unity of destiny, to contribute to achieving its national goals on a comprehensive basis.

The committee concluded its meeting by setting the date and place of the conference in the second week of January 2025, with the final date to be determined at a later time. The committee has established a mechanism for self-financing the conference through monthly subscriptions and receiving financial donations in various regions.

It is noteworthy that more than 1,600 Palestinian figures signed the call for holding the Palestinian National Confer
ence and rebuilding the Palestine Liberation Organization on democratic foundations. The majority of them are prominent figures from various sectors, such as activists, professionals, doctors, researchers, academics, artists, writers, journalists, legal figures, and student activists, in addition to former prisoners and politicians from various backgrounds in their personal capacity. The signatories to the initiative from each country held preparatory meetings to coordinate positions and arrange for participation in the national conference in occupied Palestine, Britain, the Netherlands, Qatar, Kuwait, Spain, Belgium, France, the United States of America, Lebanon, and Turkey.

Source: Maan News Agency