Gaza Unchained: Resistance against Genocide
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October 7, 2023 — the day Gaza, the world’s largest open-air prison, broke through the walls of siege and apartheid. Palestinians crossed into the villages from which their grandparents were expelled during the Nakba 1948. Gaza, which occupies 1.3% of historic Palestine, became the temporary home for more than 2.3 million refugees from southern parts of the country.
That day came not only as an act to break a harsh reality imposed by Israeli occupation forces on Gaza but also it shaped a historic turning point; Palestinian resistance reframed over 77-year-long struggle, reconnecting it to the global fight against colonialism and imperialism.
History didn’t begin on October 7
Palestine had endured decades of occupation, siege, and repression. Gaza, blockaded for 17 years, was deprived of food, water, medicine, electricity, and fuel. Movement, work, and healthcare were restricted; the West Bank suffered under daily military raids, arrests, executions, land theft, settlements and violent settler expansion. Systematic annexation, enforced through checkpoints, fragmented Palestinian society and territory.
The prisoners’ cause: Spark of revolt
Among the most powerful grievances is the plight of Palestinian prisoners—thousands jailed arbitrarly without charge or trial, subjected to torture, medical neglect, and inhumane treatment. Before October 7, over 5,200 Palestinians were imprisoned, including more than 1,300 held in administrative detention. These prisons are centers of systematic cruelty.
The world witnessed this repression when Israeli forces hijacked the Global Sumud Flotilla. Foreign activists were assaulted and abducted—raising the question: if this happens to foreigners, what horrors befall Palestinians in the shadows? Since October 7, over 77 prisoners have died in prison, victims of torture or medical neglect.
October 7: An explosion against normalization
All this is happening in a regional context in which reactionary Arab regimes race to normalize with the Zionist entity, seeking to bury the Palestinian cause. They exploit exhausted societies — crushed by their own economic and political repression — to secure their power and serve the occupation simultaneously. These regimes function as guardians of Zionist interests while suffocating their own people, reshaping society to achieve normalization across the region.
A cry of existence
October 7 was the eruption of accumulated rage—an inevitable response to killing, oppression, humiliation, occupation, settlement, displacement, apartheid and siege. It was not born in a vacuum, but from humiliation and suffocating despair. It was a cry that Palestinians still exist, still resist, and will not surrender—even at great cost. For many, it reaffirmed that a life without dignity is a living death. Resistance became the assertion of existence itself.
Extermination: Crushing a people and its will to resist
The cost has been staggering. By October 14, 2025, Gaza’s Health Ministry reported 67,913 Palestinians killed and 170,134 injured. This is not a war—it is a genocide, enabled by Western military and political support, especially from the U.S., Britain, Germany, and regional allies.
The occupier seeks not only military victory but total collapse of Gaza’s social life by erasing homes, schools, hospitals, and entire refugee camps—an assault on memory, identity, and collective resilience. The occupier believes extermination will bring submission. Instead, it fuels resistance. Every martyr, destroyed home, or grieving parent becomes part of a collective memory—and a seed of future struggle. This is not simply a battle over land, but between two opposing projects: a colonial-settler-imperial order and a liberatory power grounded in justice, dignity, and freedom.
Western media: Demonizing resistance, justifying genocide
The genocide is masked by a media machine. Every discussion on Gaza is filtered through “But Hamas”—a phrase that has become the entry fee to participate in public discourse. Those who refuse to condemn resistance are branded antisemitic or apologists for terror.
This deliberate narrative erases the history of occupation and casts the oppressed as aggressors. In the name of fighting antisemitism, European governments have created bodies to monitor dissent and silence pro-Palestinian voices. These efforts promote Zionist propaganda while censoring Palestinian history and struggle.
As a response to all this came the 7th of October and was the beginning of much more.
A global awakening
Despite attempts to bury the truth, October 7 reignited global consciousness. Palestine rose again as the heartbeat of resistance — defying oppression, colonialism, imperialism, and a world complicit in occupation and genocide.
Western democracy exposed
Under the slogan of “Israel’s right to defend itself,” Gaza was devastated — neighborhoods erased, families wiped out, massacres normalized. Western double standards and hypocrisy stood exposed: Western lives are sacred, Palestinian lives cheap. Gaza shattered the colonial moral facade of powers that preach humanity while excusing mass slaughter and masking the reality of occupation. The language of “self-defense” became a weapon to legitimize killing and blame the victim. Structural racism surfaced clearly, Western media, largely echoing the Zionist narrative, distorted truth, manipulated public opinion, and demonized everything tied to Palestine.
Arab regimes: Complicit in genocide
The genocide exposed the complicity of Arab regimes, political normalization, and economic cooperation with the Zionist entity. They offered hollow condemnations, while intelligence coordination suppressed 1 2 3 any spark of solidarity with Palestine. These regimes adopt the role of collaborators, weakening Palestinian resistance to serve their own survival and that of the settler-colonial project.
The moral collapse of the Zionist entity
The October 7 uprising and response of the Zionist entity shattered its carefully crafted narrative. The “only democracy in the Middle East” has revealed itself as a settler-colonial regime, deeply racist, militaristic and authoritarian. The genocide it unleashed shattered illusions and exposed its core: an apartheid state backed by Western imperialism. No longer seen as a beacon of democracy, the Zionist entity is now seen by many as a global threat to justice and peace.
Isolation and revolt on the global stage
The tide is turning. At the UN, leaders walked out during Netanyahu’s speech. Some states downgraded diplomatic relations. Activists called for academic, cultural, and economic boycotts. Protests multiplied worldwide. The movement for boycott, divestment, and sanctions gained momentum. The occupation entity, once treated as untouchable, now faces cultural and diplomatic isolation. Its propaganda machine is losing its grip, even as billions are poured into “media influence.”
The international system unmasked
The genocide exposed the international system as a whole. The United Nations remained muted, the UN Security Council impotent, international courts ineffective, all without meaningful intervention of the international system bowing to the will of powerful states. It became clear that these supposed protections are selective tools used when convenient and discarded when it comes to Palestine.
Silencing dissent: West’s authoritarian face
As support for Gaza grew, Western governments cracked down. Protests were banned, students suspended, activists fired, arrested and deported. The media was censored. Civil liberties—free speech, protest, and academic freedom—were sacrificed to defend “Israel’s” impunity.
Gaza unmasked the tyrant in Arab regimes and the hypocrisy of the West: democracy ends where imperial interests begin. For the Zionist entity, freedoms disappear; dissent is criminalized, and solidarity is smeared as antisemitism to protect power.
No guardianship, no disarmament: Resistance must unite
Imperial powers have met in Cairo to declare “peace” built on the ruins of Gaza, pushing plans for political disarmament and expanded normalization. Though the guns may be quieter, the genocide continues—through “silent” killing, starvation, blockade, and displacement.
These schemes are extensions of old colonial projects, but the illusion of disarming resistance is dead on arrival. Resistance triumphed on October 7; the people sacrificed greatly and never abandoned their land or determination. These projects will fail.
Now is the time for absolute unity among all national, regional and international resistance forces. Unite ranks, raise the banner of struggle, and speak with one voice against this imperialist-colonialist onslaught to protect Palestine and its revolutionary future.
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