Naji al Ali and Handala are two symbols of the Palestinian national resistance which never surrendered to the occupiers for decades. The palestinian cartoonist Naji al Ali, who took shelter in a refugee camp in Lebanon after the 1948 occupation at the age of 10, and assasinated by Israeli agents in London in 1987, has left a child to all of the peoples of the world: Handala, a child who will always be 10 years old. Handala appears in nearly forty thousand cartoons that narrate Palestine, his back always turned against us. He is resentful to everybody who do not hear the voice of a people whose country and right to life is stolen; and it is only after the liberation of Palestine that he will turn us his face again.

We started to work to commemorate the memory of Naji al Ali, who dedicated 50 years of his life to the cause of his country’s freedom, mostly by his cartoons. We know well that the zionist occupiers fear his depictions. Let them fear! We shall continue to depict Palestine.

Not only a Palestine who fights, but also a Palestine who breathes.We are calling everyone who wish to support this heritage as well as to support this struggle, to participate in the 2010 International Naji al Ali Cartoon Contest on Palestine and to make the voice of Naji al Ali, Handala and Palestine heard.