At a time when the massacres and crimes committed by the Zionist-imperialist alliance continue and escalate, Palestinian people, especially people in the Gaza Strip, write a new page of heroism and miracles each day.
By Harsh Thakor
May 4, 2024
The State of Israel, patronised by imperialists, mainly U.S. imperialism, continues its genocidal war against the people of Palestine in Gaza. Refugees camps in Nuseirat and Jabalia have recently been attacked, as well as the city of Rafah, where approximately 1.2 million refugees forcibly displaced from other parts of Gaza are precariously sheltering alongside around 280,000 local residents in the embattled strip’s southernmost city. The death toll has already climbed to 34,596 people murdered, and there are also 77,816 injured and more than 8,000 missing. In the West Bank, the Israeli attacks have ceased to stop, and the death toll has reached 491, and more than 4,800 persons injured.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently stated that since the 7th October there have been 443 attacks on the besieged enclave’s healthcare facilities or medical workers, which killed a total of 723 people and injured 924. These attacks damaged or destroyed 101 healthcare facilities and 106 ambulances.
Israel is laying the groundwork to fulfill its settler-colonial plan of colonizing Gaza. The Wall Street Journal reported that Israel has given Hamas until next week to submit to a cease-fire proposal or face an invasion of Rafah. Politico reported on Friday that Israel Defense Forces (IDF) officials informed the U.S. government and aid agencies that a plan is in place to remove Palestinians from Rafah. The sinister plan is to start forcibly expelling Gazans from Rafah ahead of a likely ground invasion—a move reminiscent of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine’s Arabs during the establishment of the state of Israel.
Palestinian resistance actions
Every year on the first of May, the peoples of the world, especially the global working class, and all the poor, oppressed, and downtrodden in this world, celebrate in the face of the brutal, savage, and enslaving practices perpetrated against them by a ferocious financial elite, which disregards all human values and principles.
The Palestinian people, along with workers and free people of the world, commemorate the first of May this year, at a time when they are subjected to the most brutal and fierce campaign of genocide and ethnic cleansing, under the leadership, partnership, support, cover, and complicity of the American administration and the colonial Western imperial powers.
At a time when the massacres and crimes committed by the Zionist-imperialist alliance continue and escalate, Palestinian people, especially people in the Gaza Strip, write a new page of heroism and miracles each day. Despite the wounds and pain, despite the blood and body parts, and ethnic cleansing in its ugliest forms, Palestinian are raising the flag of resistance, with more determination and belief in the justice of their cause and the inevitability of victory, their weapons being patience, steadfastness, and resistance, and the support of all the free and honorable people of the world.
The Palestinian resistance waves banners of resistance with courage and undertook resistance operations in Gaza against the Israeli occupiers. Al-Qassam Brigades have carried out several actions: two Israeli officers have been killed in battles against the Palestinian resistance at the Central Gaza Strip, and several other soldiers have been seriously injured as a result of this operation. Following an ambush on last Sunday, where three Israeli soldiers were killed and 11 wounded, the Al-Qassam Brigades announced it bombed the headquarters of the Israeli 769th Eastern Brigade in northern Israel.
In the West Bank the people of Palestine are not only battling with the State of Israel, but also the so-called “Palestinian Authority” (PA) which acts as an instrument of imperialism and directly attacks the Palestinian Resistance.
There have also been actions in the West Bank. In Nablus, students held a rally in solidarity with Gaza.
Hezbollah has launched many attacks on Israeli targets close to the border with Lebanon. One recent attack was carried out with drones and guided missiles, shattering the military headquarters of Manara and against the position of the 51st Battalion, which belongs to the Golani Brigade.
Ansar Allah (the so-called Houthis) has targeted several ships at the Gulf of Aden, as well as an Israeli ship in the Indian Ocean, the ‘MSC VERACRUZ’. During last weekend and the beginning of this week, two U.S. destroyers were attacked with several drones. Also other ships were attacked such as the ‘Cyclades’, a Malta-flagged ship but linked with British imperialism, and the Israeli ‘MSC Orion’ which was navigating in the Indian Ocean.
Protests
In Amman, Jordan, this Tuesday a demonstration was held in which thousands of people gathered in front of the Israeli embassy. On Friday, the people of Yemen marched in support of Palestine and condemning the Israeli genocide in the Gaza Strip. The marches occurred mainly in the cities of Sana’a, Sa’dah, Rayma and Marib.
Yemen'de on binlerce kişi, Gazze ile öğrenci dayanışmasına destek gösterisi düzenledi https://t.co/kA7fwW69iS pic.twitter.com/8gYtfKaDmj
— Anadolu Ajansı (@anadoluajansi) May 4, 2024
A solidarity movement with Palestine is crystallising at the university campuses all over the world, and the students are carrying out encampments and mobilizations.
Kampkomiteen has carried out several actions in solidarity with the Palestinian resistance in Norway. In Oslo a weekly demonstration for Palestine was staged, under the slogan “Stop the persecution of Palestinian activists by the PST” (Norwegian intelligence service).
The number of protests is escalating specially in the US, where more and more students are integrating with the protest against the genocide perpetrated by the State of Israel against the people of Palestine. There is a relentless resistance by the students, especially at the Columbia and California Los Angeles (UCLA) universities. At the UCLA the students are battling the police and also Zionist aggressors attacking the pro-Palestinian encampments.
In London, hundreds of thousands of people gathered in a march in solidarity with Palestine.
In France students are pouring in huge numbers in joining the solidarity with the people of Palestine and solidarity with those who are crushed or supporting Palestine. At the Sorbonne University in Paris, students are assembling to construct an encampment in solidarity with Palestine.
Also in Paris, students have occupied the building of the Paris Institute for Political Studies (Sciences Po), and later they blocked the entrance.
Harsh Thakor is a freelance journalist.