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- Country of residence: Palestine
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I don't care at all about his class descent, nor even his affiliation, nationality or color. Perhaps this does not mean anything to many others. But what surprised me about him was his bias and impulsiveness, which did not know retreat, appeasement, or slackness or fluctuation. I like his victory, which is far from our world, which is full of noise, noise, smoke, and death, for the issues of peoples, humanity, and all the oppressed people in the world. He found his enjoyment complete as he shared worries with them, felt their suffering closely, and healed their wounds.
These are words that do not do him justice, but they are letters of the loyalty that is necessary for a man who deserves all loyalty.
His happiness in what he could and was able to do for them was overflowing with sparkle and brilliance on his face, like a flood submerging a dry land for the first time, and a boat that the wind was pushing non-stop towards the ends. The struggle for the sake of these tormented people on earth was his daily obsession, and his goal, which he sought to complete while he was ill. He was a different type of revolutionary, another type of man, a revolutionary in the garb of the priesthood. His illness in which he died did not stop him, and his work kept him away from the path he had set and put his feet on the ground for the first time.
He is Fernand Tuil, whose soul carried Palestinian nationality and belonging to this usurped homeland, before the Palestinian Authority granted him a passport bearing the name Palestine. The land he loved, adored, and fought for, and for the actual implementation of the right of return for all Palestinian refugees. He traveled far and wide to introduce the Palestinian issue to the world. He believed in the justice of the Palestine issue, and he considered it an issue that affects the conscience of all humanity, an issue that sums up human rights, freedom, dignity, and justice.
He defended the right of its people to return from the diaspora, and placed her as a flower on his chest, just as he carried her as a song in his soul, and as a dream between his eyelids to sleep. He worked to twin the French city of Montaner with the Dheisheh camp for nearly twenty-five years. He is the stubborn fighter, the unknown narrator, the one who pushed thousands of French people in solidarity with the Palestinian people in their plight, and to know closely their pain and suffering. He also always urged them to establish humanitarian projects to support the Palestinian camps. He was a friend of the late Yasser Arafat, but he did not exploit that relationship for self-interest or a personal position. Rather, his quest was focused on changing the reality on the ground through hard and persistent struggle. In 1989, he and his French comrades and their friends were able to twin the city of Montatur with the Dheisheh camp in Bethlehem Governorate. In 1999, the Association for Twinning between Palestinian Camps and French Cities (AJPF) was established, which he co-chairs with Ahmed Muheisen from Dheisheh Camp. In 2002, in the month of September, his efforts to establish twinning between the Shatila camp and the French city of Bagnolet bore fruit, and his role was prominent alongside that of Mark Everbeck and Daniel Mannen.
We must not forget that the first slogan of the Twinning Committee was the right of the Palestinians to return to their land. Fernand Tuil was fighting the disease in order to survive, but his struggle for the Palestinians’ right to their land was beyond the tyranny and cruelty of the disease. He did not hesitate, did not hesitate, and did not back down until he left this world of disappointment. Glory and eternity to you as you rest in peace, O friend and righteous son of our Palestinian people. Know that you will remain immortal in the memory of our Palestinian people in the homeland and in the diaspora.
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