For too long, the global solidarity movement has only understood Palestinians as victims of Israeli violence. The current moment calls us to question the invincibility of the Zionist project and reassess our struggle.
In the last year, Israeli forces and armed settlers have killed more than 310 Palestinians, while Palestinian attacks have killed more than 30 Israelis.
Three Israelis were injured as a Palestinian gunman carried out the second shooting operation in the heart of Tel Aviv in less than a year, while three Lions’ Den fighters were killed in a failed ambush in Nablus.
Israeli special forces ambushed three Palestinian resistance fighters in their car. The killing was so brutal that images of the slain fighters were asked not to be circulated out of respect.
The Israeli army launched yet another massive military invasion on bastions of Palestinian resistance, this time in two simultaneous raids on Nablus and Jenin.
The Israeli campaign to quash armed resistance in the West Bank continues to intensify. However, a new generation of fighters says they will continue to resist due to the reality of living under occupation.
Nablus is mourning the loss of loved ones following an Israeli army invasion that killed 11 people. “Loss is difficult as it is,” says newly widowed Umm Muhammad. “Loss because of the bullets of this ugly regime is indescribable.”
The massive Israeli invasion of Nablus led to the assassination of several Palestinian resistance fighters, while the army fired indiscriminately at residents and killed an additional 8 Palestinians.
Muntaser al-Shawa is the eleventh Palestinian youth to be killed by Israel this year, and the latest martyr in Israel’s war on Palestinian children and minors.
Jerusalem has emerged as a second front in Israel’s counterinsurgency strategy, prompting Itamar Ben-Gvir to ramp up the Israeli state’s never-ending war on the city and its people.