Comrade Mohammad Alloush’s Speech
Secretary of the Political Bureau of the Popular Struggle Front – Palestine
General Secretary of the Palestinian Workers’ Struggle Union
Stop the Gaza Massacre: For a Just Peace and the Establishment of a Palestinian State
Dear comrades,
To all the free people of the world, to those who light candles of conscience in a time of deepening darkness, to our comrades in the Japanese “ZENKO” organization, and to all those across the world where justice still has supporters and human values endure — we come to you today from the heart of the tragedy… from wounded Gaza, from the bleeding body of the Palestinian nation, which for more than two years has endured the horrors of a barbaric war of extermination waged by the Israeli occupation state — a brutal force built on killing, aggression, and apartheid, backed unconditionally by U.S. imperialism, which has shed any claim to morality and abandoned even the most basic standards of justice.
What is happening today in Gaza and throughout occupied Palestine is not an armed conflict between two equal parties, but rather a new chapter in a continuous colonial saga spanning over seven decades. It is a renewed Nakba — a reproduction of the historic injustice inflicted upon our Palestinian people since 1948, when over 800,000 Palestinians were uprooted from their lands, and more than 500 towns and villages were destroyed to establish a colonial, settler, racist entity by force, at the expense of our people’s right to existence, sovereignty, and dignity.
Today, 77 years after the Nakba, the Israeli killing machine continues its bloody expansionist project, driven by the same racist arrogance and protected by a network of Western interests — foremost among them the United States, which doesn’t hesitate to use the veto to block any UN resolution condemning genocide or calling for an end to aggression.
Stop the massacre — this is not a poetic plea or emotional rhetoric, but an urgent humanitarian call to preserve what remains of the meaning of global conscience. More than 60,000 martyrs — most of them women and children — tens of thousands wounded and disabled, and millions displaced and deprived of basic life necessities, all facing a scorched-earth policy targeting everything: people and homes, hospitals and schools, mosques and churches, ports and bakeries. Even safe corridors are bombed, and shelters have turned into mass graves.
What is happening in Gaza is not a miscalculation, nor a response to so-called terrorism. It is a well-planned campaign of genocide and ethnic cleansing, aimed at erasing Gaza from geography and memory, and breaking the will of the Palestinian people. But what Israel and its supporters fail to understand is that Gaza — despite its wounds — remains the capital of steadfastness, and that our people are unbreakable, no matter how intense the siege or brutal the killing machine becomes.
Our Palestinian people are not asking for the impossible. We seek no domination, we commit no aggression, and we only dream of what the UN and international law already affirm: an independent, sovereign state based on the June 4, 1967 borders, with Jerusalem as its capital, and the right of return for refugees to their homes from which they were forcibly expelled. This is real peace — not one built on blood and ruin, but on justice, mutual recognition, and freedom for the Palestinian people.
Dear comrades,
Today, from the heart, we salute your solidarity in Japan, especially the ZENKO organization, which embodies the values of global popular struggle for social justice and human liberation. Your stance with Palestine is not a seasonal or emotional reaction, but a reflection of a deep awareness that what is happening in Palestine concerns the entire world.
The events you organize — protests, seminars, fundraising campaigns, and support statements — rebuild bridges of trust among the struggling peoples of the world. Palestine is not merely a geographic issue between the river and the sea. It is a moral and political test for every free human being. To stand with Palestine means to reject injustice, to support truth, and to believe that freedom is indivisible.
History has taught us that occupation cannot last, that nations do not die, and that the voice of the victim cannot be silenced forever. Even though we are currently enduring chapters of siege, starvation, and slaughter, we are certain that freedom is coming, and that victory is inevitable — because those who possess such willpower, resilience, and patience can never be defeated.
Dear friends and free comrades,
The massacre is not complete without shedding light on another side of the aggression: the siege, the starvation, the systematic economic destruction targeting our Palestinian working class, undermining any hope for a dignified life. The occupation is not limited to bombs and missiles; it has declared a comprehensive war on bread and on the dignity of the Palestinian worker.
Palestine has become a testing ground for savage neoliberal policies reinforced by occupation. Hundreds of thousands of workers have been pushed into unemployment, poverty, and social fragility. Gaza is a clear witness: unemployment among youth and workers exceeds 65%, and lack of job opportunities has become a sword hanging over the necks of struggling families, now dependent on aid that barely keeps them alive. Meanwhile, the Palestinian economy is besieged and prevented from developing, its productive structure dismantled, imports and exports restricted, and infrastructure destroyed.
The occupation steals our resources, restricts our movement, controls our borders, and turns the Palestinian worker into a hostage of permit policies and blackmail. The struggle for labor rights and workers’ dignity has become inseparable from the national liberation battle.
We, in the Palestinian Workers’ Struggle Union, affirm that defending workers’ rights — their wages, their social security, their right to organize freely, and their legal protection both at home and in the diaspora — is an integral part of the liberation struggle. It is both a moral and political duty that cannot be separated from resisting the occupation.
From here, we call on all free trade unions around the world, on labor movements, on progressive and socialist forces, to place the issue of Palestinian workers at the core of their agendas. We call on them to exert real pressure to break the economic stranglehold on Palestine, and to expose the policies of exploitation, looting, and apartheid that Israel imposes on workers.
Dear friends, we do not ask for pity, but for partnership in struggle. We do not want words of courtesy, but actions that translate into political pressure, boycott campaigns, accountability for war criminals, and sustained efforts to break the siege and stop the genocide.
We want your voices loud in international forums, in the media, in universities, and in the streets. We want anger to become political power, and solidarity to become a global front against aggression, imperialism, and racism.
Gaza is bleeding — yes — but it remains a beacon of light in this dark world. It will rise from the ashes to write new chapters in the saga of freedom.
Palestine remains, the occupation will end, and peace can only be built on justice. You are part of this great journey.
Glory to Palestine. Glory to all the free people of the world.