As announced before, between 18 and 22 of September, WFDY and the World Peace Council took forward a solidarity mission to express its support to the Palestinian people and youth in their struggle for freedom and independence. The dates of this important joint event that gathered 18 people from 14 different organizations of 3 continents were not chosen by hazard and aimed to coincide with the beginning of the discussions around the submission of the Palestinian request to be recognized as a member state of the United Nations.

During the days of the mission, WFDY and the WPC had the opportunity to meet with the Palestinian Peoples’ Party, the Popular Front for Liberation of Palestine, the Democratic Front for Liberation of Palestine and Fatah, as well as with their youth wings. Furthermore, the delegation had the opportunity to express its support to representatives of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, the Palestinian Legislative Council and the Palestinian Authority.

Within the several days spent on the ground, the delegation also conducted interesting visits to important sights such as Jerusalem and relevant examples of the Israeli settlements and Wall that divide and occuppy the Palestinian territory.

From the contacts established both in meetings and in informal exchanges it was clear that only through the resistance it will be possible for the Palestinian people to bend its oppressor and only with more and better organized international solidarity it will be possible to finally overthrow this unjust, illegal and brutal occupation of Israel that shamefully the United States and many of the European Union insist in supporting.

Also as part of the visit, WFDY and the WPC delegations had opportunity to meet with the Communist Party of Israel and their elected members in the Parliement, as well as with the Young Communist League of Israel and other social movements, that very bravely fight inside the very hear of the war and killing machine against the Israeli occupation, for the rights and unity of Jews and Arabs and for their social rights - against the anti-popular policies of the Israeli government.

As main outcome of this visit, it is underlined the total support to the Palestinian peopla and youth right to have a state, free and indepedent, in full respect of the UN resolutions and the borders of 1967, together with the right for all Palestinian refuggees to return to their homeland and all the political prisoners detained in Israeli prisoners to be immediately released - such demands are nothing but a drop of justice to counter decades of imperialist and zionist oppression and occupation!

Following the decision taken by the regional comission of Europe and North America of WFDY, actions will be conducted on this day by all WFDY members. If you click in the picture, you can have access to the common leaflet produced by WFDY to support these actions to occur.

At the same time as this action is taking place, organizations from all over the world will be taking forward an important activity of solidarity with the people and youth of Palestine in their struggle for freedom and independence, which deserves particular highlight in this moment when UN will be debating the request for Palestine to be recognized as a full member state.

We are sure that it is through the organized struggle of the youth and peoples that we can defeat imperialism and surely that the strengthning of the anti-imperialist youth movement will be an important contribution for that day to come sooner, rather than later!

United and struggling we can and we will win!

The World Peace Council and the World Federation of Democratic Youth are uniting their voices with the hundreds of millions of peace loving people, the Youth and Students in all corners of the world, in solidarity with the people of Palestine which is suffering a slow genocide under the occupation of its territories. The case of the ongoing occupation of Palestine by the Israeli regime constitutes a crime against humanity and a flagrant provocation against the thousands who suffered and struggled heroically for the noble goal of freedom and justice. Despite the many concessions made from Palestinian side during the years in order to find a viable and just solution, the governments of Israel and the current one, refuse to accept the right of the Palestinian People for their independent State alongside Israel.

We express our sincere and full-hearted solidarity with the Palestinian men and women, the youth and the students in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and East Jerusalem in their desire to end the humiliation, the discrimination and the occupation.

We condemn the support US imperialism is giving throughout the years to the Israeli occupation of Palestine and the hypocritical policy of the E.U. which is keeping “equal distance” from the aggressors and the victims.

We consider it to be the high time to have this year in September the recognition of the independent State of Palestine within the borders of 4th June 1967 and with East Jerusalem as its capital.

We call upon the Member States of the UN to adopt in the General Assembly this proposal and the United Nations as such, to proceed with the necessary steps to ensure this demand which is being embraced by the vast majority of the nations in the world.

We underline our demands for the release of all Palestinian political prisoners from Israeli jails and the right for Palestinian refugees for their return according to the UN Resolution 194.

We furthermore salute the peace loving forces inside Israel who struggle side by side with the Palestinians for their just cause and reiterate our solidarity to all peoples in the region who are struggling against imperialism, its mechanisms and policies.

Lastly we underline our categorical rejection to the foreign occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan and to the ongoing imperialist aggression against the people of Libya as well as against any foreign intervention in the internal affairs of the countries of the region. The peoples have the sovereign right to determine and fight for their freedom, democracy and social justice.

Under this light WFDY and the WPC will undertake a common initiative and organize a solidarity mission to Palestine during September 18-22, 2011 to meet with Youth and Peace organizations in order to express our strong support to the campaign for the recognition of the independent State of Palestine and our concrete solidarity with the peoples under occupation.