Berlin declaration endorses right of resistance, return

Berlin declaration endorses right of resistance, return

More than 10,000 Palestinians residing in Europe issued the Berlin Declaration at conclusion of their two-day conference in the German capital on Sunday evening asserting their right to return to their homeland Palestine.

The 8th Palestinians in Europe conference, an annual event since 2003, said that the Palestinian people are entitled to resist occupation with all means guaranteed by heavenly and humanly doctrines and legislations.

They said that no one is authorized to give up the right of return, declaring confidence in their inevitable return to their homeland.

The conference’s final statement, dubbed the Berlin Declaration, hailed the Palestinian prisoners in Israeli occupation jails describing them as the conscience of the Palestinian people, and calling for arduous efforts to secure their release.

Describing Jerusalem as the jewel of the crown of the Muslim world, the conferees said that the Israeli attempts to change its landmarks would go in vain, and appealed to the Islamic Umma (Nation) to assume its religious and historical responsibility towards Jerusalem and Jerusalemites.

The Declaration condemned the oppressive Israeli siege on Gaza, asking the world community and the Arab and Islamic countries topped by Egypt to break the siege and open the crossings especially the Rafah border terminal.

It called for prosecuting the Israeli war criminals and for forging national unity based on national constants.

The document called on European decision-makers and opinion leaders to adopt serious positions that would be fair to the Palestinian people and would stand alongside justice and freedoms of peoples.