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Palestinian factions issue statement on New York Declaration

August 1, 2025

Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas, Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine,

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command (PFLP-GC) and Vanguards of the Popular Liberation War – Al-Sa’iqa Forces issued a joint statement regarding the New York Declaration on July 31, 2025, which was published by Resistance News Network.

Palestinian resistance fighters.

The Palestinian factions have followed with interest the proceedings of the high-level United Nations international conference, which recently concluded in New York. This conference came at a dangerous and sensitive stage in the history of our people, as the Zionist occupation continues to commit a war of genocide against our people and our families in the Gaza Strip and practices one of the most heinous starvation campaigns in human history, at a time when the International Criminal Court is demanding the appearance of its leaders for accountability and trial, amid complete international silence.

The conference, and the resulting political declaration, carried important implications related to the right of the Palestinian people to establish their independent and fully sovereign state.

In the context of a careful reading of the declaration, we affirm the following:

This great steadfastness, in the face of the machinery of death and destruction, constitutes the fundamental pillar that has thwarted the objectives of the aggression and consolidated our people’s right to life and resistance. We also commend the heroic role played by the resistance in defending our people and strengthening their national will in the midst of an asymmetric war and catastrophic humanitarian conditions.

The factions also stress the necessity of moving towards a serious political track, under international and Arab sponsorship, that leads to ending the occupation and achieving our people’s aspirations for the establishment of their independent and fully sovereign state, with Al-Quds [Jerusalem] as its capital.

This resistance will not stop until the occupation is gone and our people’s goals of liberation, the return of refugees and the establishment of their independent and fully sovereign state with Al-Quds as its capital are achieved, as the weapon of the resistance is fundamentally linked to this just national project.

In this context, we affirm that the day after the end of the Zionist aggression is a quintessentially Palestinian day, in which all the efforts of our people’s components — national, political and popular — must be combined, side by side with the efforts of building and reconstruction, to restore our national unity and establish a true partnership worthy of the sacrifices and legendary steadfastness of our people.

In conclusion, our Palestinian people, like other peoples of the world who have fallen under the yoke of occupation and colonialism, will attain their freedom and independence, no matter how long it takes and how great the challenges, based on the justice of their cause, the steadfastness and resistance of their children and the support of all free people of the world in their legitimate struggle for liberation, return and independence.