Since the declaration of the state of Israel in 1948, the Zionist state has engaged repeatedly in ethnic cleansing of the people of Palestine, both inside and outside their homeland. From 2006, Israel imposed a siege on more than the 2 million Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip. Some of these were freedom fighters; more than half were older men, women and children.
On 7 October 2023, Palestinian freedom fighters crossed borders between Gaza and Israel. The intent of the crossing was to bring again to the attention of the world, Israel’s imposition of apartheid in Gaza and other occupied territories of Palestine. Many Israelis and Palestinians were killed, 251 Israelis were captured and taken back to Gaza as hostages.
The taking of hostages was to stress that:
“at the end of March 2024, the Israel Prison Service (IPS) was holding 8,611 Palestinians in detention or in prison on what it defined as “security” grounds, including 1,141 from the Gaza Strip.”
[Quote from B’Tselem, an Israeli Information Centre for human rights.]
More than 1,000 Palestinian ‘administrative detainees’ remain incarcerated without charge or trial; many other detainees are children and women.
On 9 October 2023 Israel commenced another assault on Gaza, which was its most vicious yet. The Gaza Strip was set on fire along its length and across its breadth. By killing an estimated 40,000 people, with thousands missing under the rubble of destroyed buildings.
Era: Sumud - Steadfastness (1948 onwards)
