Nakba commemoration in Poland

Nakba commemoration in Poland

Over a million people took to the streets across Europe, the US and the Middle East on Sunday to commemorate the 63rd anniversary of Nakba — the ethnic cleansing of 780 thousand Palestinians expelled from their land or murdered in 1948. The protesters demanded putting an end to the illegal occupation, recognizing the Palestinian refugees’ right of return and recognizing Palestinian statehood in the UN General Assembly vote that will take place in September.

In Warsaw protesters marched from the Israeli Embassy to the House of Parliament. There they met with MP Ryszard Kalisz, Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Justice and Human Rights, and delivered a draft interpellation to be submitted to the Prime Minister Donald Tusk and the Minister of Foreign Affairs Radosław Sikorski, requesting a disclosure of the Polish government’s position on the GA vote regarding the acceptance of Palestine as a full member of the UN.

The September vote will be held as the international community’s response to Israel’s brutal policy of occupation, colonization and illegal annexation of Palestinian territories, including ethnic cleansings, evictions and house demolitions on a mass scale, as well as Israel’s refusal to recognize the Palestinians’ right of self-determination.