On Land Day, Fayad Reiterates: Freedom is Coming, the Occupation Regime Shall Fall The Prime Minister Plants Olive Trees in Bab Al-Shams Village
Prime Minister Salam Fayad emphasized our people's determination to achieve freedom and independence, and our national right to development and prosperity on our land. The Prime Minister made that statement as he planted olive trees in Bab Al-Shams village this Saturday to mark the thirty-seventh anniversary of Land Day. He added, "We are here in Bab Al-Shams village to plant olive trees in commemoration of Land Day and to reiterate that our people's presence in Bab Al-Shams and every corner of our land will remain deeply rooted, just like olive trees are rooted in our land".
The planting was attended by members of the Bab Al-Shams village council in addition to Al-Zayyem village council members as well as popular resistance activists and leaders.
The Prime Minister praised the role of popular resistance activists and leaders as well as their creative initiatives in opening the gates of freedom towards Jerusalem. He said, "To all our people, especially the relatives of our martyrs and our imprisoned freedom defenders as well as to the guardians of our land everywhere I say: The dawn of freedom is upon us; the occupation and its regime of walls and settlements will end, God willing. We are deeply planted in this land".
The Cabinet had recently endorsed thevillage council of Bab Al-Shams village, which was established by popular resistance activists at the beginning of this year as the twenty-ninth local council in the Jerusalem District. Occupation forces have surrounded and destroyed the village several times as well as detained several of its residents. On 20 March, popular resistance activists set up the Ahfad Younis neighborhood in the Bab Al-Shams village.