What began with the Nakba (catastrophe) in 1948 continues to this day, with the United Nations and the international community unable to put pressure on Israel and respect the will of the Palestinian people for their independence.
It should be recalled that the Israeli colonization process in 1948 forcibly displaced 957,000 citizens living in historic Palestine in around 1,300 cities and towns and carried out almost 51 massacres with a death toll of more than 15,000.
The occupation did not stop its expansionist efforts and in 1967 colonized the rest of the Gaza, West Bank and East Jerusalem territories in a tragedy known as Al Naksa.
In 1993, the Palestinian Authority recognized Israel as a state in its homeland with the Oslo Accords, and the Arab nation was reduced to 22 percent of the original territory, half of what was allocated under the 1947 UN partition plan.
However, the dispossession has been gradual and, according to researcher Susana Khalil, Palestine currently only has seven percent of its land, given the increase in colonial settlements and the construction of the Wall of Shame as a method of extermination.
For Palestinian writer Jamal Kanj, the silence of the so-called international community ensured Israel’s impunity and continued the normalization of its apartheid regime.
The rise of the far right in Israeli politics after the death of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995 and subsequent governments introduced a series of repressive measures such as checkpoints, exclusive roads into settlements, violence and raids.
Since then, the number of Palestinian prisoners and deaths has increased due to constant aggression, as well as crimes and attacks on the Al-Aqsa Mosque and Islamic and Christian shrines.
Before the launch of the current Al-Aqsa flood resistance operation, Israeli killings in 2023 reached more than 250 Palestinians, including 47 children.
Gaza, considered the world’s largest open-air prison, has been subject to a harsh economic blockade for more than 18 years, with its citizens lynched by Israeli soldiers in cities such as Hawara and Hebron.
Meanwhile, the burning of Palestinian cars, houses and shops under the official protection of the army and the direct support of ministers is reported daily in the local and international press.
In addition, more than five thousand Palestinians in Israeli prisons suffer from the sanctions of administrative detention due to the implementation of measures such as prolonged isolation, limited contact with family members and limited access to medical treatment.
Ahead of a tour of the region, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdullahian stressed that the world knows that the root cause of the crisis in West Asia is the Zionist entity’s occupation of Palestine.
The Chancellor considered that the siege, the disruption of water and electricity supplies, and the prevention of the entry of medicine and food indicated the enemy’s intention to carry out a massacre against the residents of Gaza.
Western media blame the Hamas movement for the current escalation, Abdullahian emphasized that the conflict in Gaza is not a Zionist war with a specific militia, but against all Palestinians.
Palestine resists Israeli attacks and fights for its freedom, regardless of the sacrifices of its men and women and the number of martyrs.
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