Israel’s indiscriminate airstrikes continue in Gaza, while extending them to the West Bank in an airstrike on Jenin. Meanwhile, humanitarian aid stalls, fuel shortages put newborns’ lives in peril, and clashes with Hezbollah intensify.
As the Israeli army amasses 300,000 troops on Gaza’s border for a potential ground invasion, the scale of the human catastrophe in Gaza is unprecedented. But despite the carnage, people support the Palestinian resistance more than ever.
The Palestinian resistance in Gaza has shattered the Zionist state’s perceptions about itself and its enemies’ capabilities. To restore its deterrence, its slow strangulation of Gaza will no longer be enough.
In October 1973, and again in October 2023, Israel suffered a breakdown in political and military command. It could not have imagined that the Arabs were capable or courageous enough to launch such a daring attack.
At around 6:30 a.m., Palestinian resistance factions in Gaza launched a surprise attack on Israel from land, sea, and air, as thousands of rockets have been launched into Israel and reportedly dozens of Israelis, including soldiers, have been killed and abducted by the resistance.
Israel has renewed its deadly onslaught on the armed Palestinian resistance in Jenin and Aqbat Jabr refugees camps, while in Gaza, another Palestinian was martyred during protests at Gaza’s border fence.
The Palestinian Authority has not let it up on its campaign of arresting resistance fighters, recently leading to rising tensions and armed confrontations in Jenin. But despite the PA’s efforts, resistance brigades continue to spread.
Thirty years on, the legacy of Oslo has given birth to two parallel worlds — one that rejects the order that Oslo created, and one that will stop at nothing to preserve it.
Thirty years after the Oslo Accords were designed to institute Palestinian defeat, resistance continues, and so does the cycle of loss.
Louis Allday’s introduction to the newly reissued biography of Ghassan Kanafani outlines the choice Kanafani made between being an organic participant in the resistance and his life as a writer. Kanafani chose, and in doing so, chose his fate.