 So I was dead. And I had to have a mission. The first mission was to hide Jack-O-Prime. And this I never heard about. Never. In our terminology, we have struggled. We have fights. We could be in prisons. But this terminology was very new to my mind. And okay, when I was trained, then we have said here, from the beginning, had slogan, men and women are in the battle of liberation. I'm Layla Khaled. I'm a Palestinian who is still a refugee since 75 years. I'm a Central Committee of Popular Front for Deliberation of Palestine. I'm based now in Jordan. And that's it. First of all, we haven't been divided. It's since the revolution and the father that happened in 87. But after also, of course, signed by PLO leadership who did it behind our shoulders. So we had to unite. And we called for always for national unity, because unity for our people under occupation is a kind of arms also. So and we have the same now. We are working on the ground all together. And even before that, when Gaza was attacked four, four, five times during three years from 2008. And now Israel wants to say that they are attacking Hamas. But the children are not Hamas. Women are not Hamas. They are attacking our people. And it's a genocide attack this time. Gaza now is all over the world. The area of Gaza is now going to all continents because people of the world who support the struggle of the Palestinians, even though if they kill and feel and feel, but there will be life in Gaza. And you are the eyes of Gaza. Now you are the meat. So we are not afraid of what Netanyahu is saying. They are afraid because always the Palestinians are bound to hope to implement their dreams by struggling by going to arms and other means of resistance. They didn't stop this way that the Palestinian chose. We don't have the choice of luxury anyhow. And we don't have this luxury. We have only one choice is to fight and to liberate our land and to liberate ourselves also from this occupation that is doing what the Nazis did the same. But they added more because the arms are new now. They are making holocausts. And it is a war crime now what they are doing. That's why we called upon ourselves all over in Palestine tonight. And still we didn't achieve unity as a political issue. But we achieved unity on the field when Israel attacks. The United Nations in 1948 recognized Israel as a state and didn't recognize us as a people who have the right for self-determination or the return to our homeland that we were kicked out by force from the Zionist groups in 1948. Since then they drew many resolutions but not implemented. Now yesterday the Security Council of the United Nations did not accept the Russian bill for denouncing the attack from Israel and only five countries who said yes for it and out of 15 so it didn't pass. We know now the world is divided according to the interests because the interest of the United States is to defend their base. They are similar in Palestine which they call Israel. Now I think that the world now is there are waves of people taking streets even in Washington and in Britain and everywhere in the world because they are supporting the right for the Palestinians to have their own state and to live on that state with dignity and with justice. But you have seen now we don't depend upon the United Nations. We depend first upon ourselves and then we have a lot of people all over the world supporting us. This gives us the strength and to bear the sufferings we are ready to pay for our homeland to pay blood to pay from our flesh to pay our families to liberate this land because without that any freedom needs also the people to sacrifice. Now we know that they speak about terrorism but they are the heroes of terrorism. The imperialists fought everywhere in Iraq, in Syria, in different countries and now they are preparing to attack China and all the what they say about terrorism it tends to be for them people have the right to resist with all means including arms struggle. This is in the charter of the United Nations so they are violating this. They are violating the right for the people for resistance because it's their right to restore their freedom and this is as I say always it's a fundamental law where there is repression there is resistance for it. People will not live under occupation and under the oppression of all kinds in the world and history learned us that people can when they resist they can then keep their dignity and their land. Now we have a history of resistance and we declared from the beginning that to restore a homeland and to be free it means generation after generation. What happened in Palestine we were picked out of our homeland and others came from outside with arms and they made massacres in Palestine. It's the Zionist movement that prepared for that and the West supported the Zionist movement until now they are supporting them. Why? It's because they want this is the arsenal that the base in the Arab countries and in the Middle East they want to defend it. So what I say to justify their attitude they want to say that we are again facing the terrorists. What's happening? What is this? This is terrorism and there are state terrorism also represented by Israel and represented by other governments who are against their people and until now we have in this conference and other conferences how people are suffering from their governments because they are on the side of the United States or I mean the United States is always interfering in different countries and imagine to call Latin America is the background background of the United States they insult the people their land their governments even who are allies with them they are pressured always to say this word it means that they don't care about the people and their freedom to live in their country to have their resources whether from water or from other natural resources and they always want to steal the oil from the countries that have oil look what happened in Venezuela they don't want to make democracy they are spreading fear they are spreading hatred everywhere they go under a slogan we want to democratize the people in this country and that country as if the people don't have minds to get there what they need not what they want and unfortunately and often now when this conference was speaking a discussing any the struggle against imperialism they because they feel the the injustice for their people for their countries for the resources and so on this is not in Venezuela or only but in all Latin America because Latin America is having resources for training trade for industry they want to steal it and then the people they don't have any choice except to reward what happened in Chile at the time of Pinochet this is it was genocide also what happened in Argentina what happened in Cuba Cuba for 60 years under the siege but still Cuba is standing in front of them so and they are building there Cuba is building its country they export doctors to the whole world in the time of corona we have seen how many doctors went to Italy to Italy in Europe as if Europe needs more and in Africa they sent their doctors it means that this country and its people when they revolted they reached to the point to declare socialism in their country and its expression for the outside and we look upon Cuba as one of the lessons that we are learning from them you know I began the fight when I was 15 years old I joined a movement it's an Arabic national movement and I was not accepted as a member at that time so they said you are young I said okay I can help so we were I mean I have active I mean we go to the demonstrations and so I was living in Lebanon and then after 1967 I was in Kuwait as a teacher and I quit teaching I joined the revolution through a popular from for the liberation of Palestine because it's a part of it was the leadership is a part of the Arab national movement and initiated and founded BFLP for the revolution that broke out at that time so I was there and I had to do a mission the first mission was to hijack a plane and this I never heard about hijacking never in our terminology we have struggled we have fights we have to be a could be in prisons but this terminology was very new to my mind and okay when I was trained in BFLP from the beginning had slogan men and women are in the battle of liberation so it was implemented in this way and at the same time to represent also not only the Palestinians but all women who are under oppression whoever the the nationality because in in our any thinking and ideas that we a Palestinian cause is not only for Palestinians but it's a part of the international liberation movement and to show that to implement the idea by itself when I was in the cockpit I had to introduce myself for them I took the name of the first martyr woman after 1967 Shadia Abu Wazali and I told the captain because I had to inform who are we then I said we are from Che Guevara unit to show the link in between us and the repression movement that was a tactic that we used and we we intended to do with just to the world we listen to us because they didn't listen to us when we were in camps when the camps fly out when we were sleeping to the sea in Lebanon for example they didn't hear the sufferings of the women and men prisoners in in chains and the tortures so we thought that if we do this the people will hear why they will ask the question why why are they who are they and we wanted that to to be done in in any a fantastic way and without hurting anybody and this we did it any a clean operation when I remember that I say I'm happy and I'm not taken it that I participated in a multi bowls to achieve we wanted to release our prisoners we know very well and we knew very well that the passengers have nothing to do with the conflict but we were very much instructed by our leaders don't hurt anybody neither the passengers nor unless somebody at that but we were not at that while the second time I was an El Al plane the Israeli plane we knew that there are armed men on the plane so the minute we stood up they were shooting and they in front of my eyes they shot my and today I forgot to name him Patrick Org willow from the Karabua in front of my eyes I thought that they will kill me but they didn't kill me so I'm here and the pilot was they the Israelis put in charged him yes so he had to land he landed in London and also the of the officer who was in the cockpit he was coming with a hernia rave he was the chief of the military intelligence and and we knew that somebody is there like the first one the WA Rabin was coming on that he was ambassador but he in Rome he changed his plane anyhow when I remember this I say it many times to evaluate it evaluate the whole issue after three years in every operation we evaluate how it affected how was it successful with the goals that we intended to especially for the release of prisoners only the Israelis accept to release two pilots Syrian pilots and after 1967 they were arrested in Palestine and some prisoners but they because they didn't talk to us of course they don't talk to us they talk to the Red Cross and the Red Cross they any told us that any they will be released so it's okay and the next time we released more for other operation not the same and we stopped after three years we stopped any any kind of hijacking I continued when acting at the beginning all the lies on me I was young you and I can't face everything because I have to be educated and trained and deal with people first so I said I don't want to see the media and the first media came to Jordan to meet me I didn't they came to the house where I was and when they said if this the house over there I said no and they were coming just to meet me and then they went to our headquarters in the camp in Jordan and I went there and they came is Layla Khaledira said no he's not here maybe in in the camp the training camp and then I went to that training every time they see me I said she didn't come just now she left I don't know where to so they went again to and Martha Rassan Kanafani he was the chief of information they they went back to him in Lebanon he said I didn't find we didn't find her so he called where is Layla I mean people are coming to I mean for our headquarters everywhere in the media so they back to Jordan and they met Dr. George Habas the general secretary and they said we want to meet Layla so he called me that was in our office in the camp of what that in Jordan he said there there is a TV from Italy they want to meet you I said no I don't want he said why I told him I'm afraid of the cameras he said what you frightened the whole world you're afraid of a camera because I was not educated enough to speak to the media that was will be the first time in my life and afraid to be mistaken with some expressions and and he told me you will represent your comrades in jail the women and the Palestinian women so I was crying so I went out and I told them I am layla they three times saw me and I said no she's not here and all the time I was afraid to make mistakes political mistakes at that time so I told them the whole story history and they said how do you feel you know sometimes they meet there and yeah I'm not now speaking about you but some people asked very private questions and sometimes they say you are a beautiful woman and they say you know what does that mean to you you know I'm here for a cause I'm not here for one media man told me how many how many hours you stand in front of the mirror he said what is this question it's less than when you shave and let's start what is in such questions and it irritates me and I don't like to be answered but at the same time being a woman the image of Arab women in general that they are all learning with his app their role in life is just to get married to have children and she is controlled by her husband or father or whatever some women couldn't that is the image so we have to change the image also but we have to change it through the through the national struggle because we cannot get our rights while we are still defending our humanity and that's why so up till now I'm happy as a woman and as a mother as a grandmother now to continue the struggle with all our means but women as according to our party who are pregnant or mothers they don't go for military work unless she is inside Palestine because the Israelis come take them from the houses and from their houses the women and men we are outside we cannot do that if I were there I will do it first I am calling the media you you are also people who struggle but everyone in from his position and your cameras will a transfer their facts the facts about the struggle itself so you are ambassadors for us because you are with us so because the media is two different parts one for the oppressors and they are strong enough to send their message and you can be also any strong enough to to and to have the message for the world this is one thing for the international community today and yesterday and before yesterday and before that we feel that we depend upon people's struggle we don't depend upon governments even if they declare that they are with us we don't depend on them we don't depend upon progressive forces in the communities you are living in and also to spread the facts of the struggle and how it is related to the capitalists not only as occupation but it is related directly to the imperialists because the Zionist movement is a part of the imperialists so we have to unite we have to you know there are means to have contacts very quick information on social media now and this makes the progressive and democratic forces should unite together but as one organization but as a wide front to face the enemies because they are the enemies of human beings everywhere against humanity I call upon people in the world to kick out the Israeli ambassadors and also to close their embassies in your countries especially here in South Africa you can do it and because if they are still on your land at Misia you are recognizing them as ambassadors the host country whose government is killing our people this is not only for the people also for governments to say if you are with Palestinian struggle then okay take action I said it in the conference to take actions and to implement the what you say so if a country says we are with the Palestinians then don't recognize these people who are killing us