The Communist Party, as it commemorates this national occasion, affirms that the battle for the land has not ended. Rather, it is growing more ferocious with the escalation of the occupation’s policies of Judaizing the land, expanding settlements, and enforcing the apartheid system against our people everywhere. Land confiscation, population displacement, and ongoing attacks on holy sites are a continuation of the same criminal and fascist approach that seeks to uproot the Palestinian people from their land. This year, Land Day comes amidst an unprecedented, brutal Zionist aggression, represented by the genocide being perpetrated against our people in the Gaza Strip. The Zionist war machine continues to commit horrific massacres against civilians, including children, women, and the elderly, in a systematic targeting aimed at uprooting our people and obliterating their national identity.