International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
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03-12-2010
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Send to friendOn November 29th, 1947, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the resolution on the arbitrary and unjust partition of Palestine. In this document, it was reflected the territorial concessions granted to the Jewish population of the 55% of the Palestinian territory. So the Palestinians, representing 67% of the population, are alienated more than half of their land.
The results of this resolution gave rise to the birth of a hostile situation between the two nations that lasts until today. In 1948, the British Mandate came to an end, and Ben-Gurion proclaimed the State of Israel in the territory allotted by the UN resolution the previous year. This led to the first Arab-Israeli conflict, thus resulting in the displacement of over half a million Palestinians into Gaza and the West Bank territories, which since 1967, are under Israeli military occupation.
Despite the peace negotiations in Madrid and Oslo in 1991 and 1993 respectively, the Government of Israel has created a system of apartheid against the Palestinian people and has designed a wall of separation that has been under construction since 2002, within the occupied West Bank, isolating each communities and families, separates farmers from their land and Palestinians from their workplaces, schools and health and other essential services.
Since 1977, at the request of the General Assembly is observed annually on 29 November as International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. On this date the UN member countries should support and give greater publicity to this event.
During the day, celebrations were held worldwide to remember this day and show support to the Palestinian people.
