“Al-Aqsa Storm”; The product of more than 7 decades of occupation in Palestinian lands

Mehr News Agency, International Group: After the Al-Aqsa storm operation on October 7, 2022, many people raised the question why Hamas and Palestinian groups took this action. The facts on the ground in Gaza and the developments in Palestine in general in the past few decades show that it is the Zionist regime that has been killing Palestinians for a long time, and in other words, Palestine cannot be considered as the initiator of this war.

The killing and captivity of Palestinians

Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics released statistics on May 2024 on the occasion of the 76th anniversary of the Nakbat. Kurdish, which shows that since 1948, about 134 thousand Palestinians have been martyred. With the beginning of the second intifada in 2000, the killing policy of this regime became a declared and clear policy in the fight against the Palestinians. Tel Aviv first acknowledged the killings in November 2000. Some of the actions of this regime in suppressing the al-Aqsa intifada have been completely different from the law enforcement paradigm. The most obvious of these methods was the targeted killing operation, in which Tel Aviv targeted Palestinians without attempting to arrest them.

This regime’s lack of effort to arrest rather than kill is evident. In 2002, a 16 Zionist F bomber bombed an apartment building in Gaza with a one-ton bomb, killing fourteen civilians in addition to a Hamas military leader. They were killed. In its killing policy, the Zionist regime has used a lot of violence in ground and air operations and tools such as helicopters, tanks and fighter planes.

The Statista database announced the number of Palestinian martyrs in 2008-2020 to be around 5,590. While this number was announced for the Zionists as 251 people. After Netanyahu’s coalition cabinet was formed at the end of 2022 and far-right figures such as Smotrich and Benguir who committed racist actions against Palestinians They are famous, they came into use, the attacks against Palestinians also increased. In addition to the killing policy, imprisoning Palestinians is another action of the Zionist regime. Before the start of Al-Aqsa Storm, 5200 Palestinians were imprisoned in the prisons of this regime. Hamas statement after the start of Al-Aqsa Storm to release prisoners from the occupation prisons as one of the most important headlines. National, political and humanitarian of this group.

Ignoring the right of return of refugees

The issue of refugees has been one of the most important human rights issues surrounding Palestine since the establishment of the Zionist regime. It shows the depth of their problems. Palestinian refugees are people who lived in Palestine and lost their homes as a result of the 1948 conflicts. The number of Palestinian refugees exceeds 5 million. Nearly a third of them, more than 1.5 million people, live in 58 recognized Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, the Gaza Strip, and the West Bank. The number of refugees increased after the 1967 war and the occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The membership of the Zionist regime in the United Nations was accepted on the condition of solving two problems, one of which was the return of the refugees to their original homeland.

The Zionist regime became a member of the United Nations and more than 60 years have passed since then, but the Palestinian refugees have not yet returned to their homeland. From December 1948 to 2015, the United Nations General Assembly passed 49 resolutions, all of which emphasized the right of Palestinians to return to their homeland. The occupying regime has considered the return of Palestinian refugees as a matter related to its internal security and for this reason has prevented their return. During Netanyahu’s prime ministership in the Zionist regime, including in the period of 2009-2021 and after 2022, strict measures have been increased, especially towards the refugee camps in the West Bank.

Disallowing the establishment of a Palestinian state

Another action of the Zionist regime against the Palestinians is opposing the establishment of the Palestinian state. More than three decades have passed since the formalization of the independent state of Palestine in 1988, and the Zionist regime, along with the United States, are the most important opponents of the establishment of this state. In January 2024, in a conversation with US President Biden, Netanyahu said: “Security needs Israel leaves no room for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state. After the destruction of Hamas, Israel must maintain security control over Gaza to ensure that Gaza is no longer a threat to Israel.” The American government’s position is that the formation of an independent Palestinian state is only possible with an agreement between the Zionist regime and the Palestinians, and Washington does not accept any other mechanism.

Intensification of settlements

Before the 1970s, the Zionist regime entered into military conflicts in Arab lands by abusing the heavy atmosphere of the Cold War. and occupied parts of them. After the 1970s, since the expansionism of this regime through force was not acceptable to the world community, it continued its expansionism through the transfer of Jews to the occupied areas of 1967 and their settlement in the form of settlements in order to change the population structure of this land. . The construction of Jewish settlements throughout the West Bank began in 1996 with the call of Sharon, the then prime minister of the Zionist regime. According to the statements of the former director of the Palestine Map Association, which was closed by the occupying regime, there are 252 Jewish settlements in the West Bank and 10 in East Jerusalem.

According to the data of “Peace Now” organization, the size of the settlements is more than 13% of the area of ​​the West Bank. Although the Security Council in 2016 > By issuing Resolution 2334 any construction of the Zionist regime in the occupied territories of Palestine is declared illegal and He stressed the need to evacuate all the Zionist settlements in the West Bank, the construction of settlements has increased during the period of Netanyahu. The cabinet of this regime built four thousand and approved 500 Zionist residential units in the West Bank. Some consider the increase in settlements to be related to the strong presence of religious and Haredi parties in the cabinet of this regime, many of whom live in these West Bank settlements and believe in the complete occupation of this region. It was followed by further expansion.

Result

After the 7th of October and the Al-Aqsa storm, there have been various discussions about why this operation was carried out by Hamas. In the meantime, the thing that seems to need more attention is the Zionist regime’s pressure on the Palestinian community, which is the result of the Al-Aqsa storm operation.