Date: June 5, 2026
Calls for holding the occupation accountable for its crimes against the Palestinian people and providing them with international protection.
Stresses the importance of national unity and reconciliation under the umbrella of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) to safeguard the national liberation project.
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Dr. Ahmad Abu Holi, member of the Central Committee of Fatah Movement, called on the international community to assume its historical and legal responsibilities and take immediate action to end the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories, including the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip. He also called for compelling Israel, the occupying Power, to implement United Nations Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338, which stipulate ending the occupation and fully withdrawing from all territories occupied in 1967. He stressed that Palestine remains the only country in the world still suffering under the longest and oldest colonial military occupation in modern history, which has persisted for nearly six decades.
In a press statement issued on the occasion of the 59th anniversary of the June 1967 Naksa, Abu Holi also called on the international community to urgently implement United Nations General Assembly Resolution ES-10/24, adopted in September 2024, through which the nations of the world agreed on a binding timetable for ending the military occupation, evacuating settlers, and dismantling the apartheid system. He emphasized that achieving a just and comprehensive peace and genuinely consolidating the two-state solution and the New York Declaration begins with the faithful and effective implementation of these UN resolutions aimed at ending the oldest occupation in modern history.
Abu Holi stressed that this year's commemoration of the Naksa must serve as a decisive turning point in the international handling of the Palestinian cause by moving immediately from condemnation to punitive measures and binding implementation steps. He called for holding Israeli officials accountable for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed against the Palestinian people, providing international protection for Palestinians, ending all colonial settlement activities, and compelling the occupying Power to fully comply with the historic advisory opinion issued by the International Court of Justice on July 19, 2024, which stripped this colonial occupation of any legitimacy and ruled that it must be dismantled immediately.
Dr. Abu Holi urged UN member states to provide genuine support for the State of Palestine's right to obtain full membership in the United Nations. He also called on countries that have not yet recognized the State of Palestine to do so, thereby strengthening efforts to end the occupation and achieve a just and comprehensive peace.
He explained that the June 1967 Naksa represented the third war in the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict, during which the occupation seized by military force the entire West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem, causing a new wave of displacement and refugeehood affecting approximately 300,000 Palestinians, most of whom were forcibly displaced to neighboring countries, particularly the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
He pointed out that this painful anniversary coincides with the escalation of some of the gravest crimes in history, including genocide, ethnic cleansing, systematic starvation, and forced displacement in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. These are accompanied by a parallel campaign aimed at destroying the infrastructure and means of livelihood in Palestinian refugee camps in the northern West Bank, continuing plans to Judaize Jerusalem and expand settlements, increasing killings and daily executions, and maintaining deadly checkpoints at the entrances of cities, villages, and camps. He further noted the intensification of "silent annexation" policies, land confiscation, and the targeting of villages and Bedouin communities threatened with displacement, particularly in Masafer Yatta, the Northern Jordan Valley, and the Khan al-Ahmar communities, as well as the towns and villages of Al-Mughayyir, Duma, Qusra, Burqa, and Huwara, which continue to face ongoing terror by settlers and the occupation army.
He stressed that confronting the ongoing Israeli aggression and Israeli plans aimed at seizing more land through security belts, buffer zones, settlement expansion, and settler attacks requires, above all, escalating popular resistance across all locations and arenas and supporting the steadfastness of citizens on their land in the face of displacement and uprooting policies.
Dr. Abu Holi concluded his statement by emphasizing that strengthening national unity, immediately advancing reconciliation, and rallying fully around the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, constitute the primary path and guarantee for protecting the national project and thwarting liquidation schemes, ultimately leading to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.
