Palestine from “Nakba Day” to the Day of Resistance

according to the international group Tasnim news agency, destruction Although the recent war in the Gaza Strip is beyond imagination, it is only one of the direct manifestations and consequences of the occupation in the 76 years since the Nakba Day and the establishment of the fake Israeli regime.

The public image created about the consequences of the formation of Israel and the discriminatory and occupying policies of this regime reminds the audience more of the developments that took place in the main part of the occupied territories and the West Bank. In particular, the forced withdrawal of the Zionists from the Gaza Strip in 2005 and the destruction of 13 Zionist settlements built in this strip strengthens this idea, but after 1976, the manifestations of the Zionist occupation can still be seen in the Gaza Strip. In fact, the fate of Gaza and its inhabitants, like many Palestinians, is tied to the day of the Nakbat. and the Palestinian village and the complete destruction of 530 of them and at least 70 cases of killing and massacre of Palestinians by the terror squads of the Zionist regime, they call it “Nakba Day”. Due to the passage of time and on the other hand, the geographical distance of the Gaza Strip from the central areas of the occupied territories and the West Bank and the city of Jerusalem, it is somewhat difficult to imagine that Gaza was also severely affected by the consequences of the Nakbat.

But the fact is that the Gaza Strip was heavily overshadowed by the manifestations of the Israeli occupation from the very beginning of the colonial life of the Zionist regime. The displacement of a large number of Palestinians led to the formation of 8 refugee camps in the Gaza Strip between 1948 and 1949 despite the small area of ​​this strip.

Of course, this is not the whole story of Israel’s occupation, and the Zionists have severely limited the natural right to life of Palestinians by implementing various occupation policies. In the Six Day War of 1967, the Zionist regime added Jerusalem, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, the Golan Heights and finally the Sinai Desert to its occupied territories. The occupation of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank continued until 1994 and the signing of the Oslo Agreement.

From 1967 to 1985, 13 Zionist settlements Settlements were built in the Gaza Strip, the most important of which were Kafar Darum, Netsarim, Morag, Ertas, Gush Qatif and Netser Hezani. The population of the Zionist settlements in 2004 reached about 7 thousand people. This amount included almost one percent of the population of the Gaza Strip, but the Zionists had allocated 25% of the territory of Gaza to their settlements.

“Sara Roy” writes in the book “Political Economy of Dedevelopment of the Gaza Strip”: At the end of the Zionist presence in Gaza, every square mile of this strip was the place where 2 thousand Palestinians lived and gathered, but in At the same time, there were 115 settlers in every one mile of the Zionist settlements.

The other side of the Zionist occupation was the destruction of the only airport in this strip in the late The presence of Zionists in Gaza. The Yasser Arafat government airport was established in 1998 in southern Gaza, but with the start of the second intifada in 2000, the Israelis bombed this airport and finally destroyed it completely in 2001.

As ​​a result of Israel’s occupation policies, a greater social tendency to resist the Zionist regime emerged in the Gaza Strip. Since the late 1980s, the resistance groups officially started their activities and within a few years they created a strong base in this area. Zionists from the Gaza Strip and the victory of Hamas in the 2006 Palestinian parliamentary elections, which led to the formation of a cabinet by this Palestinian group, the Zionist regime put the policy of embargo and blockade of Gaza on its agenda and by applying the most severe colonial and security measures, the Gaza Strip For a few years, it turned into the world’s largest open-air prison. The entry of humanitarian aid into this channel was included in the agenda of the Zionist regime since 2007. As a result of this siege, the food security in the Gaza Strip was seriously threatened and the unemployment of the young population increased to 50% within a few years. This siege has continued for the past 17 years and has been followed more intensively since the start of the Al-Aqsa storm operation.

During the last 10 years, almost every Every two years, we have witnessed a military attack by the Zionists on the Gaza Strip, and as a result of these wars, more than 50,000 Palestinians living in Gaza have been martyred.

It is said that the amount of destruction in the Gaza Strip is such that 62% of residential houses, that is, more than 290 thousand houses have been completely destroyed and more than one million people of the population of this strip have lost their homes. have lost Also, the World Bank recently announced that 18.5 billion dollars are needed for the reconstruction of this region. This figure is equal to 97% of the value of the gross domestic product of Palestine. They are far more catastrophic in the Gaza Strip, the Nakba, which, of course, this time has faced the anger of the awakened consciences of the world in the West, consciences that demand the trial of the criminal Zionist rulers in front of the angry eyes of the people of the world and before the international courts.

The fact that the Gaza Strip is far from the central government of the Zionist regime compared to the West Bank. On the one hand, the stronger historical tendency of the people of this region provided the idea of ​​resistance against Israel, the basis for the strengthening of Islamic resistance groups against the Zionist regime in the Gaza Strip. After the withdrawal of the occupiers from the Gaza Strip and the holding of the second Palestinian parliamentary elections in 2006, which led to the victory of Hamas and made this group responsible for forming the next cabinet within the self-governing organization, after a period of disruption by the Fatah group, the differences between the two Palestinian groups increased. .

As ​​a result of these events, since June 2007, the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, or Hamas, took control of the Gaza Strip. Simultaneously with these developments, the Zionist regime also started a severe and multi-layered siege against Gaza. Despite all the occupation policies of Israel, the resistance groups managed to build a new base against the Zionists in this area during the last 17 years, which shifted the balance of power heavily towards the Palestinians. While in previous decades, light and personal weapons and guerilla and martyrdom operations were the only capabilities of Palestinian groups, with the establishment of resistance groups in Gaza, building an arsenal of heavy weapons, including rockets and all kinds of missiles, was on the agenda.

So that in the Saif al-Quds operation (May 2021), Hamas succeeded for the first time in threatening the Zionist regime for trying to evacuate the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. to get This battle forced the Israelis to withdraw from the evacuation of Palestinians living in Sheikh Jarrah. It started and this time for the first time, Hamas and the resistance groups launched an offensive ground attack against Israel, which is considered the biggest action and role played by the Palestinians in history to assert the rights of this nation against the Zionist occupation.

During the recent war, despite the advance of the Zionists in Gaza and widespread destruction, the resistance groups continued to bombard the cities with rockets. They have continued Zionism until this moment, when 221 days have passed since the war, and they have succeeded in resisting the armed Israeli army to the teeth. Also, the unique strategy of Hamas has caused many times the areas that the Israeli army has so-called cleared to come back under the control of the resistance forces, and this is basically one of the main reasons for the prolongation of the war.

The process of increasing the authority of Palestinians with the help of resistance groups has surprised many experts. In general, it seems that despite the difficult and difficult conditions of the people of Gaza, after enduring eight months of unequal war, the Palestinian resistance has succeeded in creating a dignified image of the Palestinian resistance in the collective memory with the magnificent design and implementation of the Al-Aqsa storm operation. Let the Palestinians and all supporters of the idea of ​​resistance remember so that October 7 will become an important beginning in the history of the Palestinian issue and for the restoration of the dignity of this nation.

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