It is noteworthy that Israel was established on occupied Arab land in 1948, and annexed Jerusalem and the West Bank in 1967. Throughout its 75 years, it has continued to kill and arrest Palestinians, expand settlement activity in the West Bank, launch military operations in Gaza, and attack Islamic and Christian sanctities in Jerusalem.
On October 7, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades – the military arm of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) – and other Palestinian resistance factions launched Operation Al-Aqsa Flood against the Israeli occupation, and have so far killed about 1,300 Israelis.
The Palestinian resistance also captured more than 200 Israelis, and announced that it wanted to exchange them for more than 6,000 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli occupation prisons.
For its part, Israel continues its aggression against Gaza, bombing homes, schools, hospitals and mosques, which led to the martyrdom of more than 13,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children, in addition to wounding about 30,000, destroying entire neighborhoods, and displacing and starving most of the population.
