We said ‘Si canta Nablus, canta Palestine’ with Balatan guitars in hand, in the heart of the largest refugee camp in the West Bank north of the city. The Palestinians in Balata were forced to leave Yaffa on May 15, 1948, from what is now Tel Aviv and was their city seven decades ago. From there you can see no sea, unlike the hill of Nabi Saleh. We Tamimis had the opportunity to see the Mediterranean Sea with friends in the village of Nabi Saleh, an hour away from Ramallah, there is a time when they have not wet their feet on this shore. Their law for us apartheid.

The Zionist state of Israel, which wants to appear before the world as democratic, civilized and progressive, has 1948 as a milestone, a milestone that supposedly legitimizes a whole era of brutal colonization and oppression that continues in the 21st century with the help of the Yankee empire. The year in which the illicit was legally shielded. Europe’s doors are wide open in Gaza, the Israeli terrorist state that bombards Palestinians living in the world’s largest prison with white phosphorus, demolishes their homes and kills, arrests, tortures their neighbors, the Zionist lobby that has turned the bloodshed of an entire people into a path to business with the slogan “land without people, for people without land.”

On the other hand, we reaffirm our commitment to tell first-hand that those who depend on the gas of tears are not mistaken, and with the keys of the houses of the refugees of Aida Camp or Balata in their hands, the doors that once were their homes may not be, but we know that we can open doors of struggle together in a territory where survival in daily life is a sign of resistance. The internationalist organization Liberation visited the Palestinian lands for the first time 20 years ago, and since then solidarity has not ceased, we have seen and learned through the eyes of dozens of brigades the divided old parts of Hebron and Jerusalem, the ancient city of Nablus, II. The main street of Aida and the beaches of Haifa besieged in the Intifada. The objectives and practices of these brigades have been many and varied. Last year, the feminist brigade was launched with the intention of living up close to the invisible reality of Palestinian women, which does not appear in the media. The very house that they are forced to care for their families and their members and are a pillar of the Palestinian society because of their occupation, becomes the only stronghold of power for many men and the prison of many and many women. Tools to combat this circular violence and double prison are being developed in the Arab territory.

On the way back, one of the clearest messages we bring to the Basque Country is the call to join the BDZ campaign. Illuminated by the struggle against the apartheid system in South Africa, the BDS campaign in Palestine was launched in 2004: boycott, divestment and punishment. It seeks to call for a citizen boycott of the Israeli state and aims to promote a political, academic, economic, as well as cultural boycott. Popular resistance against blockades and walls.

Today every ripped olive tree will germinate a seed of freedom in the land where they want to condemn it to ruin. For this is the ephemeris, the wound in memory, and the paths of battle.

STOP Apartheid, yallah Palestine! The free villages of Yallah!

Maddi Gallastegi, Brigadier of the Liberation in Palestine