AnarchoBolshevik

As we mark one year since the Al-Aqsa Flood Battle, we in the Islamic Resistance Movement — Hamas offer our prayers for the souls of our people’s martyrs, who ascended in our long struggle against the zionist enemy.

We also pray for the martyr leaders who sacrificed their lives in this heroic battle: our brother, the martyr leader Ismail Haniyeh, our brother, the martyr leader Saleh Al-Arouri, and the caravans of the martyrs from our nation, especially from the support and defense fronts, led by the martyr, His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, and the martyr leaders of the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon, whose blood mixed with the blood of our people on the path to liberating Al-Quds and the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque.

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In conclusion, we affirm to the entire world that there can be no compromise on our people’s legitimate right to resist the occupation by all means necessary, to establish our free and independent Palestinian state with Al-Quds as its capital and to live a life of dignity, free from siege, bombing, threats or foreign control — like all other peoples of the world.

Our great people and valiant resistance will continue their legendary epic in the Al-Aqsa Flood Battle, standing firm against aggression and thwarting its hostile plans. Mercy, glory and eternity to the martyrs of our people and our nation, swift recovery to the wounded and the sick and freedom to the prisoners and detainees in the enemy’s prisons. It is indeed a jihad of victory or martyrdom.

The Front stressed its full solidarity with Hezbollah and the brotherly Lebanese people, and its confidence in the will of the leadership and men of the resistance and their ability to make the criminal terrorist enemy pay for these heinous crimes against the brotherly Lebanese people.

The Front stressed that this major and widespread crime will bring the resistance’s response to a new phase that is broader and deeper, and at the level of this major crime.

The Front denounced the shameful international complicity with the genocidal war waged by the occupation, stressing that the genocidal criminal [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu directed this crime from inside the U.N. headquarters, and that this crime would not have happened without the full U.S. partnership and support for the occupation and its crimes.

The Front considered that the occupation’s claim of targeting resistance leaders is nothing but a search for pretexts to carry out its brutal crimes against civilian residential blocks, and that there is no reason that allows any party to commit such brutal genocidal crimes.

Those who oppose armed resistance oppose any form of resistance, not only armed resistance. They are opposing even peaceful and nonviolent resistance. You know me, I’ve been an advocate of and an activist in nonviolent resistance all my life. But I say what international law says. I’m defending the right of the people under occupation to resist in all forms. International law says that people under military occupation, wherever they are, have the right to resist occupation in all forms, including military forms, as long as they respect international humanitarian law.

[Zionism’s régime] is not only arresting people engaging in armed resistance. It is arresting people who are even engaging in verbal resistance and other peaceful kinds of resistance.

And by the way, Hamas stuck to nonviolent resistance for at least five years between 2014 and 2019. The [Zionist] response was severe violence against the peaceful marches that were organized in Gaza and in the West Bank.

It is very important, especially for younger people here, to understand that the oppressor, the colonizer, the aggressor, always tries to prevent the people under oppression from their right to resist injustice. Frantz Fanon spoke about the right of the people who are oppressed to practice violence against the oppressor’s violence, but what we see here is an even worse situation, where the oppressor is trying to prevent Palestinians from resisting in any form.

If you engage in military resistance, they will accuse you of terrorism. If you do peaceful resistance, they will accuse you of violence. If you do verbal resistance, they will accuse you of provocations or incitement. If you are a foreigner supporting the Palestinian cause, you will be accused of anti-Semitism, and if you are a Jewish person supporting Palestinian rights, you will be called a self-hating Jew.

It’s a whole battery of ideological and tactical slogans that are used by the [Zionist] establishment to deny the people the right to resist. It’s just another way of dehumanizing Palestinians. On October 7, the first [Zionist] line was to dehumanize Hamas and immediately dehumanize Palestinians in general. That’s why Gallant called us human animals. And the goal is to justify the killing of civilians and the killing of children. Because, for them, we are not human beings.

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There is hope in people’s resilience. There is hope in people’s resistance. I believe in the younger generation in Palestine. I think they are showing fantastic models of resilience and resistance. I’m not talking only about military resistance or even civil resistance. I’m also talking about this fantastic movement among a younger Palestinian generation worldwide, especially in countries like the United States and [those in] Europe, where you have a whole new generation of Palestinians who are regenerated and reenergized.

I think that October 7 reenergized a whole Palestinian generation everywhere. And I think this opens the road for a new kind of Palestinian unity around a unified project that includes all Palestinians wherever they live, whether in Palestine or outside Palestine.

Operation Al-Aqsa Flood is a purely military operation carried out by a military group from the Al-Qassam Brigades, consisting of an estimated 1,200 elite soldiers. Their objective is to confront the Gaza Division, which has been stationed around the perimeter of the Gaza Strip, imposing a strict siege since 2007. Hamas has called for the participation of the resistance in the West Bank, abroad, and from countries in the Axis of Resistance to achieve several key goals:

1. Establishing an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.
2. Protecting Jerusalem and its holy sites from being Judaized [sic] or destroyed.
3. Liberating our prisoners from […] occupation prisons.
4. Breaking the siege on Gaza.
5. Ensuring that our people live freely and with dignity, determining their own future through elections in which they can choose their leadership and destiny.

But the surprise that Hamas leadership did not anticipate was that the Gaza division of the [IOF] collapsed within a few hours, despite their possession of the most advanced weapons, including tanks, armored vehicles, aircraft, electronic devices, and espionage capabilities. They collapsed within hours, while we only had modest light weapons and dilapidated transport vehicles.

However, we had strong men, training, high morale, a just cause, violated rights, missing freedom, and a desire to push back the oppression. This led to chaos we did not expect, entering the settlements and going further, reaching Sderot Rahat, and a radius of 40 kilometers away from the Gaza Strip.

This chaos caused many people and factions to cross the separation line and capture both civilians and military personnel, as you have seen. Some even began carrying possessions from the settlements. In truth, all this chaos was the result of the Gaza division’s rapid collapse, something that Hamas did not expect.

As for the objectives that were achieved, they were far more than we anticipated, and here are some of them:

1. The Palestinian cause returned to the forefront, and the entire world became aware of our cause and our rightful demands for a state, freedom, and a future.
2. The whole world came to realize the true nature of [Zionism’s régime]—its barbarism and its goal to exterminate Palestinian people—and its aggressive ambitions. This led to resolutions from the United Nations General Assembly, the International Court of Justice, and the International Criminal Court, along with global condemnation against [the régime].

Overwhelmed by the severity of the climate impacts and the resulting human suffering, Abramoff, who was completing her postdoctorate in France at the time, began volunteering for Extinction Rebellion, helping proofread the activist group’s documents and media statements. Once she returned to the U.S. to take up her position at Oak Ridge, she was ready to risk arrest, which she did when she joined the global Scientist Rebellion protest in Washington, D.C., on April 6.

She couldn’t sleep the night before, she recalls. However, she wasn’t nervous about the experience of being in a processing cell “but of not actually being able to accomplish the task, which was to chain myself with four other women to the White House gate”, she says. “And we managed it.”

Abramoff went on to be arrested six more times, most recently for chaining herself to the Mountain Valley Pipeline, whose approval U.S. President Joe Biden signed into law last year. The $6.6bn pipeline, which is set to carry 56.6 million cubic metres (2 billion cubic feet) of shelled gas a day across West Virginia and Virginia, is estimated to emit 89 million metric tonnes of greenhouse gases a year.

In an opinion piece for The New York Times that she penned shortly after her dismissal from Oak Ridge, Abramoff describes how being a “well-behaved scientist” did not have any tangible effects. “I’m all for decorum, but not when it will cost us the earth,” she writes.

Today we turn to high school students all over the world to participate widely in the struggles and activities of the university student movement, organizing demonstrations, sit-ins and vigils, writing petitions and letters and organizing educational days about the Palestinian struggle and the goals of the Palestinian people for liberation and return.

Secondary schools constitute a strong fortress and a great support for university students everywhere. Once again, we send special greetings to our brothers and sisters, the students of Palestine in the diaspora and to our comrades and colleagues in Students for Justice in Palestine, the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, Palestine Action and the academic boycott and divestment campaigns. We salute everyone who participated and participates in student encampments at every university, college and school.

The duty and responsibility of Palestinian students in the Gaza Strip and all of occupied Palestine is steadfastness, commitment, resistance, unity and alignment with the resistance and the people until the U.S. — Zionist aggression stops and the occupation is defeated and removed from our land — all our land, from the river to the sea.

Long live the struggle of Palestine’s students for return and liberation! Long live international solidarity, and together we will be victorious!

Another clear aim for the U.S. and [its neocolony] is to bypass the Red Sea, over which the Yemeni resistance has established an effective blockade to all [neocolony]-bound ships. Since Ansarallah secured control of the Red Sea, the number of trade vessels passing through the Suez Canal have dropped by 40%. The world’s largest shipping companies are now avoiding the Red Sea entirely and instead taking the much longer and costlier route around the Cape of Good Hope, past South Africa.

This means a much costlier war for global capitalism, which is already estimated to cost at least 10% of [the neocolony’s] GDP — $50 billion — before the end of the year. The amount of money the ruling class must invest will be far higher, considering that 12% of the world’s oil and natural gas shipments used to pass through the Red Sea. Since the Resistance took control of commercial choke points, vessels carrying an estimated 2.5 million barrels of oil per day must now find another way to their destinations. (eia.gov, Dec. 4, 2023)

A [neoimperialist] port in Gaza would mean the Red Sea channels could be bypassed by sea and over land. However, the [neo]imperialist powers’ assumption that they have safe passage through the Mediterranean Sea may prove mistaken.

During his May 23 remarks, Al-Houthi also announced Ansarallah’s missile and drone strikes on attempted blockade runners in the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea, Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Aden, and that “one of our military operations during this week was carried out towards the Mediterranean Sea.” (newsweek.com, May 23)

These strikes represent the “fourth stage of escalation” announced by Ansarallah military spokesperson Yahya Sare’e earlier this month. “[Yemen] will target all ships headed to [neocolonial] ports in any area we reach regardless of their nationality and destination.” (Palestine Chronicle, May 3)

Despite whatever benevolent motives are proffered by for-profit media, the U.S. floating pier in Gaza is not about humanitarian aid, nor has any aid been delivered. And the Palestinian resistance is under no illusions to the contrary.

“Palestinian resistance is capable of hitting the base, but it will also be a sitting duck for other regional resistance groups,” said Palestinian journalist Wesam Bahrani.

“The evidence on the ground suggests this U.S. military base, when constructed, may not survive for too long. While the United States may be capable of building a military base off the Gaza shore, the Axis of Resistance is also capable of sinking it.” (press.ir, March 20)

The […] pariah state has chosen to again display its arrogance and contempt for international institutions. What is new since last October, however, is that these United Nations institutions have finally charged [neocolonial] officials and the [neocolony] itself with serious war crimes.

Have no illusions regarding these courts. Neither the ICJ nor the ICC on their own can stop the genocide or arrest [neocolonial] leaders. They have no apparatus to enforce their decisions. That the courts declared these rulings, however, indicates a change in the world’s attitude toward [the neocolony].

The ICJ, also called the World Court, was established in 1945 as the U.N. was being set up and the U.S. was dominant worldwide economically and militarily; the ICJ adjudicates general disputes between nations, which all U.N. members recognize.

In 2001 the Rome Statute, which has been ratified by 124 nations, but not by the U.S., [its neocolony], India, China or Russia, established the ICC. The ICC can investigate and charge individuals with crimes like genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and aggression, like the charges brought against Netanyahu and Galant. To date nearly all such cases have been brought against political leaders in Africa or of other less powerful or rich states.

The ICC also charged three leaders of Hamas with war crimes regarding the events of October 7. This charge has no basis, as the October 7 uprising was the legitimate response of a colonial population to 76 years of oppression, which is a right under the U.N. Charter. The charges are thus a travesty, as Hamas, along with other resistance forces, had a right to take up arms against the occupation.

Despite these spurious charges against Hamas leaders, that [neocolonial] government officials might face arrest in world capitals is an unexpected defeat, not only for [neocolonialism], but also for U.S. [neo]imperialist interests.

That these cases were decided in the two international courts is important not because they resolve [neocolonial] aggression — nor do they punish U.S. [neo]imperialism for backing and arming this aggression — but as a symptom that mass worldwide anger against the […] régime has reached new levels. The popular anger against [the neocolony] is so strong and widespread that it has pushed governments to react.

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The massacres of the occupation continue in Rafah, Jabalia, and Gaza, the latest being the burning of tents around the UNRWA [United Nations Relief and Works Agency] headquarters, where U.S. bombs and missiles of hatred and terrorism targeted thousands of our people, most of whom were children, women, patients, and elderly, burning their pure bodies and tearing their bodies into pieces.

The toll of the tent massacre in Rafah is 45 martyrs, including 23 women, children, and elderly, and 249 wounded.

All the massacres committed by the occupation against civilians and innocents of our people are in areas classified by the enemy itself as safe, indicating its insistence and deliberate execution of these massacres, and its desperate attempts to displace our people through lies and claims to justify its horrific crimes against civilians.

The timing of these massacres in the past two days is a challenge from the Zionist-Nazi government of the criminal Netanyahu to the recent decisions of the International Court of Justice, which ordered the halt of the military operation in Rafah.

The international community is facing a historic responsibility to put an end to this Zionist arrogance, and to stop the aggression of this rogue entity that tries to impose itself above international law, above accountability for its crimes and massacres, with the full sponsorship of the U.S. administration, which is a partner in all these crimes with its political support, equipment that kills our people, and unlimited funding for the crime of genocide in Gaza.

This massacre and heinous crime come as a retaliatory attempt by the Zionist enemy and its defeated and crushed army, soon by God’s will, after their inability to confront the men of Allah, the men of great courage, the men of Al-Qassam Brigades and the Palestinian resistance factions, the fighters of our heroic people in the battlefields.

The burning of tents in Rafah comes to cover up the strategic and field failure that haunt the leaders of this defeated army since October 7, receiving successive painful blows at the blessed hands of our heroes, the last of which was the heroic operation in Jabalia.

The Qassam Brigades “bombarded Tel Aviv with a large rocket barrage in response to the Zionist massacres against civilians,” it said in a statement on Sunday afternoon.

The [neocolonial] army admitted that the rockets were launched from Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah, where the [neocolonial] army is carrying out extensive operations under the cover of indiscriminate bombardment from its fighter jets.

The rockets were reportedly fired from very close to where [neocolonial] forces are stationed. They appeared to be long-range rockets, and [the] Iron Dome had great difficulty intercepting them.

Video footage and images circulating social media confirm that rockets made impact in several areas, causing damage and resulting in three injuries.

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"Ten rockets fell in the center of the country, and the media is in an uproar — the country is in turmoil. Every day, dozens of rockets are fired towards the […] conflict zone settlements and the Galilee, including anti-tank missiles and suicide drones, and the country remains silent. Once again, it's proof that the north is not being counted," said the head of the Mateh Asher settler council in the Galilee, Moshe Davidovitz.

“The Margaliot settlement has decided to sever contact with the […] government and withdraw all soldiers from Margaliot. A notification has been sent to the termination officer. Additionally, we are closing the settlement's operations center and gates. No one, including the military, will be allowed to enter or leave the settlement. The emergency squad will find another place to stay,” said Eitan Davidi, Chairman of Margaliot settlement.

“Margaliot does not need protection from Hezbollah but from the […] government, which is crushing the settlement with its decisions. Margaliot is directly harmed by the government […] decisions, causing more damage than Hezbollah's anti-tank missiles,” he added.

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Settler communities from the north announced earlier this month a plan to secede […] and establish an independent State of Galilee in protest of […] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s lack of urgency in returning them to their homes.

From here in Gaza, we see you and salute you. Your actions and activism matter, especially in the heart of the empire, in the United States. As members of Congress agree to provide $26 billion in additional weapons to bomb our people and continue the Zionist-U.S. genocide, you are taking meaningful action to shut down the war machine on your campuses.

It is clear that a new generation is rising that will no longer accept Zionism, racism and genocide, and that stands with Palestine and our liberation from the river to the sea.

Your global student solidarity is breaking boundaries, and it is time to smash the U.S. imperialist war machine. From Gaza to Columbia, to Ann Arbor and Berkeley, our hands are joined to end Nazi genocide and achieve our collective liberation.

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