Arab League Marks İnt'l 'Solidarity With Palestine' Day

The Arab League on Sunday marked the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people.



In a statement, the pan-Arab body said the event was aimed at reiterating Arab support for the ongoing Palestinian struggle for statehood.



The Cairo-based league went on to assert that the Palestinian people continued to face "Israeli aggression on a daily basis."



Observed on Nov. 29 of each year, the United Nations says the date was chosen "because of its meaning and significance to the Palestinian people".



"On that day in 1947, the UN General Assembly adopted resolution 181 (II), which came to be known as the Partition Resolution," according to the UN.



"That resolution," the world body adds, "provided for the establishment in Palestine of a 'Jewish State' and an 'Arab State', with Jerusalem as a corpus separatum under a special international regime."



The UN goes on to state: "Of the two States to be created under this resolution, only one, Israel, has so far come into being."



The Palestinian people, estimated at more than 8 million worldwide, now live primarily in the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel since 1967, including East Jerusalem; in Israel; in neighboring Arab countries; and in refugee camps across the Near East.



According to the UN, the day represents "an opportunity for the international community to focus its attention on the fact that the question of Palestine remains unresolved and that the Palestinian people are yet to attain their inalienable rights."



The Palestinians want an independent Palestinian state in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, with East Jerusalem as its capital.



For many Palestinians, the right to return to their homes in historical Palestine -- as enshrined in UN General Assembly Resolution 194 -- remains a key demand in stalled peace talks with Israel. - Mısır