Resilience and resolve of the oppressed will ultimately lead to their liberation

Decades-long tyranny, suffocation, oppression, illegal settlements, land seizures, home demolitions, frequent displacements, exploitation, expulsions, force, coercion, and intrigues have left Palestinians exhausted.

With all avenues for life, honor, dignity, and basic human rights systematically denied, Hamas embarked on a disastrous path on October 7 against the oppressors and occupiers of their land and resources.

Driven by desperation and anger, the freedom fighters initiated a reckless attack against a formidable and well-entrenched enemy, without fully comprehending the devastating consequences that would follow for their future, their children, and their scarce resources.

The response from the inhuman and ruthless oppressor has been as brutal as it is predictable. Like a gluttonous and enraged elephant on a rampage, the bandit state of Israel has unleashed a tempest of violence, terror, and destruction.

Fully armed with lethal arsenals from powerful patrons - the United States, UK, Germany, and France - the weak and militarily under-equipped Hamas faces horrible consequences.

The international community, blinded to decades of Palestinian suffering since the 1917 Balfour Declaration, supports this known aggressor, settler terrorist state.

Only Hamas’ October 7 attack is in the spotlight, while the painful events of the past eleven months are forgotten. Weak and vulnerable Palestinians have no voice and are left to suffer hardships, injustices, cruelties, dehumanization, and death. They are not on the strategic agenda of world powers serving their regional interests. Israel is a strategic partner to be strengthened, despite committing aggression and crimes against humanity. This is evident in the escalating violence and human catastrophe.

In retaliation for the deaths of 1200 people and the kidnappings of some 250 Israelis, the oppressor has launched an indiscriminate campaign of systematic genocide, horror, and brutality.

Entire communities are being obliterated under the guise of targeting small pockets of Hamas and other militant groups. Young men are being lined up against walls and tortured to death; savage brutes are kicking blindfolded young and old Palestinians into large pits and trenches.

The bodies are raised in the air and then shot at. The IDF, or Israeli Death Forces, seems to feel immense pleasure and jubilation at these shameless scenes that send shivers down the spine.

Women, children, and the elderly - innocent and unarmed civilians with no connection to militants - are being mercilessly slaughtered.

The dreams and aspirations of school-going innocent children are being shattered; the smiles of infants and toddlers are being robbed and extinguished forever. They are even targeting UNRWA workers, medics, and volunteers. They mercilessly targeted and killed a brave Australian aid worker, Zomi Frank Com, along with her seven colleagues. It appears that Israel is building a magnificent edifice of power and arrogance with the corpses and blood of innocents.

How many more corpses and blood, nobody knows! The death toll is staggering: over 40,000 fatalities, including 17,000 children, with countless more lying beneath the rubble. Every day, an average of 53 children, as well as 72 men and women, are being killed.

With the body count rising with each passing day, hour, and minute, the burden of burials becomes overwhelming. Coffins and shrouds are running short, and yet the carnage continues unabated and with impunity.”

Under relentless assault from air, sea, and land, the cries........

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