To the free people of our nation, on Land Day, and as the Zionist killing machine continues to besiege Gaza, we affirm that if we do not stand up for the Palestinian resistance and support it in all its forms (humanitarian, political, diplomatic, and military), then we too will be destined for destruction.

The forty-ninth anniversary of the commemoration of Palestinian Land Day comes amid the continuation of the most horrendous crimes of genocide against our Palestinian people in besieged Gaza and the continued occupation through the practice of ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, as well as the siege of Palestinians in the diaspora.

Southern Lebanon is no more than an extension of Palestine and its cause, as Lebanese villages are still under occupation and the region has its resistance to the Zionist war machine supported by the United States and its allies.

Palestinian Land Day also coincides with the situation in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights and the lands of that sibling people, who are suffering an incursion by the Zionist enemy at this delicate stage.

The steadfastness of our peoples, despite the blood and sacrifice, offers the world a supreme example of dignity and will to fight against the imperialist policies that seek to dispossess us of our land and stifle any liberation project that leads to the emancipation of our people from all subjugation, also overcoming ethnic or sectarian conflicts that serve the colonial occupiers.

This March 30, on Land Day, we proudly witness the resistance of entire regions of Syria, such as rural Daraa, against the incursion of Zionist armored vehicles, confronting them with precarious weapons and hand-to-hand combat.

We proudly witness the fortitude of our Lebanese people in the south, who defend their land tooth and nail against the false promises of peace and normalization intended to deceive and domesticate them.

All these examples are proof that resistance, in the mass consciousness and in concrete reality, is the driving force that guides us as long as there is occupation, with Palestine as our compass.

We fight tirelessly against all forms of dependency and colonialism. History leaves no room for compromise or indifference in the face of the genocide in Gaza or the Zionist occupation in Syria and Lebanon.

Therefore, this year we commemorate Land Day with the people standing, resisting, with the workers and farmers of southern Lebanon, as young people committed to all forms of resistance in our country and in exile.

Glory to our martyrs, freedom to our prisoners, and healing to our wounded.

Beirut, March 25, 2025