Beirut- The International Executive Committee (IEC) of the Global March to Jerusalem (GMJ) announces the completion of the preparations for the second International Conference where the representatives of the International committees involved in the organization of the Global March to Jerusalem will meet. The conference will be held in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon on Tuesday and Wednesday 17th-18th January 2012.

This meeting will be held to implement the decisions of Amman meeting last month. In which there was a consensus to form an international central committee and International Advisory Board for the march. The date for the onset of the March was agreed to be on the 30th of March 2012, which marks the 63rd Palestinian anniversary of the Land Day.

About 40 delegates representing the International committees throughout the seven continents of the world will be attending the meeting in Beirut.

The conference will adopt a structural process for the March, its technical and logistic committees will be appointed. The general policies for the international Actions will be mandated in Beirut to ensure its success. The conference will also discuss the activities of the National events and actions that will be launched in all countries starting from mid January 2012 and until the date of the peaceful march towards Jerusalem or the nearest possible point to it, from inside Palestine and the neighbouring Arab countries. In addition to that it will coordinate the international activities that will accompany the March in different countries.

The committee would like to confirm that the Global March to Jerusalem and all the accompanying local events and actions aims to shed light on the issue of Jerusalem (the city of peace) as the key to peace and war in the region and the world. The racist and Judaisation practices of the occupation against Jerusalem, its people and holy sites threaten this peace. Such practices aren’t considered as a crime against Palestinians alone but a crime against humanity as a whole.

The International Executive Committee (IEC) also emphasized that through this March they envisage to mobilize Arab and Muslim nations alongside the freedom loving people of the world to put an end to ‘Israel’s’ breakage of the international laws through its continuous occupation of Jerusalem and the rest of the Palestinian Land. Israel’s persistence in continuing its racist and ethnic cleansing practices through building the Apartheid wall and settlements and through the escalation of killing, destruction, displacement and Judaisation reveals the extent of its crime. This kind of behaviour requires an international rally to support the right of the Palestinians for freedom, independence, self-determination and the right of return. This peaceful March is inspired by our belief, and the belief of those who support our cause throughout the world, that the time has come for the people of the world to have a practical role in achieving justice and preserving peace through ending the Israeli occupation in Palestine and its capital Jerusalem.

The International Executive Committee of the Global March to Jerusalem GMJ-ICC Jan. 10th 2012