We publish below an unofficial translation of an article first appearing here on A Nova Democracia.
The Palestinians, prepared in advance for a disproportionate war, responded to the genocidal campaign with an ingenious and powerful guerrilla war. If Netanyahu reenacted Nazism in the present day, the Palestinian National Resistance brought to the stage the best memories of the national liberation struggles of the 20th century.
October 7, 2023. At approximately 6:30 a.m., hundreds of Palestinian fighters launched the largest guerrilla military operation of the 21st century without anyone knowing. Hundreds of Palestinian fighters entered the territory occupied by “Israel” by land, air, and sea, capturing prisoners of war and sabotaging several strategic points of the Zionist entity; soon, they were joined by thousands of Palestinian peasants, merchants, and other workers. It was 1:30 a.m. in Washington, D.C., and then-US President Joseph Biden was probably resting peacefully in a comfortable bed in the White House, dreaming of anything but the hell that was descending upon his precious military base in the Middle East.
The episode changed the history of Palestine, the Middle East, and perhaps humanity in the present century, proving that the current era is turbulent, that revolutions are still possible, and that armed struggle is a viable option for oppressed peoples. In an act of revenge typical of a monarch challenged by the masses, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched the largest bombing campaign the Gaza Strip has ever suffered. On October 13, the first ground incursions by the Zionist Army began, paving the way for a full-scale invasion 14 days later. As of this writing, the genocidal campaign has killed 67,139 people, injured 169,583, disappeared 9,500, and destroyed 90% of the Gaza Strip.
The Palestinians, prepared in advance for a disproportionate war, responded to the genocidal campaign with an ingenious and powerful guerrilla war. If Netanyahu reenacted Nazism in a highly contemporary context, the Palestinian National Resistance brought to the stage the best memories of the national liberation struggles of the 20th century, applying lessons drawn directly from the national wars of the Vietnamese people, the Chinese People’s War, and the vast African peoples who expelled the invader from their lands. Broadcasters such as Al Jazeera broadcast internationally images of ambushes like the one on July 2, 2025, in the Shejaiya neighborhood of Gaza City, where fighters from the Al-Quds Brigades (Palestinian Islamic Jihad) killed and wounded approximately 40 Israeli soldiers and officers in a coordinated operation involving the use of rockets, rifles, improvised explosive devices, and tunnel ambushes. The televised genocide was accompanied, for the first time in history, by almost real-time images of the victories of an oppressed people who refused to surrender.
This shook the world. By 2025, the American people declared more support for the Palestinians than for Israel, according to a poll by the monopolistic New York Times and the University of Siena, an unprecedented result in a survey that has been conducted frequently since 1998. Among younger people, support for Palestine over Israel reached 61%. In the same survey, 51% of respondents advocated ending US economic and military support for the Zionist entity. This represents a significant increase in support for the Palestinian cause two years after the start of the war, in an upward spiral of solidarity that has already taken the form of protests, student occupations, and even bombings of factories in the US and Europe. This year, the Freedom Flotilla initiative further demoralized the Zionist entity with a series of missions to Gaza, the last of which ended last week with a violent interception by Israel, which is now beginning the deportations of activists, some of whom were tortured. Italy is another center of mobilizations, with demonstrations so large that they led American-Palestinian journalist Ramzy Baroud to classify the movement as an “Italian intifada.”
The crisis unleashed in Israel by the Palestinian National Resistance spread throughout the Zionist organization’s institutions, with defections, resignations, and open infighting among members of Netanyahu’s government. It quickly reached its center of operations, the United States, like the metastasis of a cancer only detected at an advanced stage. In addition to popular dissatisfaction at home, the American establishment was forced to revise its strategic plans for global action, as it could no longer focus so heavily on Asia, where it was fighting over Taiwan, the South China Sea, and other areas of influence, while the Palestinians were eroding their main foothold in the Middle East and inspiring other Arab nations to rise up. The Yemeni people, for example, dared to launch a campaign of attacks against the territory and vessels heading toward Israel, imposing an unprecedented economic sanction against the Zionist organization. Among the targets were American vessels, some of them important for a potential conflict with China, according to reports from the New York Times itself. It was an unexpected setback for the Yankee political and military leadership, caused not by another imperialist superpower, but by an oppressed people seeking freedom. If described as consciousness of necessity, as it was by communist leader Friedrich Engels, then this has already been achieved by the Palestinian people, who, despite being subject to the worst regime of restriction of rights ever in human history, recognize the need to fight and live in its purpose.
October 6, 2025, 6:00 PM Brasília time, Brazil. October 7, 2025, begins in Palestine, exactly at midnight. The Seattle-based Palestine Chronicle reports that the Hamas delegation sent to the ceasefire talks in Egypt—composed of Khalil Al-Haya and Zaher Jabreen, survivors of a recent assassination attempt in Doha, Qatar—classified the dialogue as “positive” and stated that ending the bombardment in Gaza is the greatest obstacle to the process of releasing prisoners of war. Hopes are growing for a ceasefire—not just any ceasefire, but one with terms imposed by the Palestinians, in which the Palestinians come out on top politically, unlike any other Palestinian-Israeli agreement in history. In Gaza, amid the demolished buildings and charred trees, fighters, aware that the battle is far from over, are still fighting in the early hours, according to information received by the Resistance News Network. “Clashes are taking place between the resistance and the Israeli Occupation Forces inside the Al-Shati camp, west of Gaza City,” the brief report reads, lighting up the cell phone and computer screens of eager supporters of Palestine around the world. Al-Shati is a small refugee camp, less than a kilometer from the sea, filled with the smell of the sea air and where there once stood a park with well-cut grass and beautiful trees, as Palestinians recall in comments on Google Maps. These may be the first shots fired on the day marking two years of war, but they foreshadow the Palestinians’ decision about the future of their land while the invaders are still there.
Image: Al-Qassam Brigades fighters break the siege on the Gaza Strip, and Palestinians flood into the occupied territory. Photo: Hani Alshaer / Anadolu Agency
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