The story of an unforgettable people

The long struggle of the Palestinian people in the face of the arrogance of the occupation and its arbitrary measures cannot be described, because the dictionary of definition will not be able to provide a description that is worthy of this struggle and fight against the brutal and unjust Israel, which occupied the land and expelled its true owners, established settlements and colonies on it, and Judaized most of the historical and heritage landmarks of the homeland.

In the book of laughter and forgetting by the Czech novelist Milan Kundera, there is an eloquent phrase: “The struggle of man against brutal power is a struggle of memory against forgetting.” This is the best description of the issue of the Palestinian people as they face the most brutal and ferocious occupation, where tyranny and force are accompanied by acts of arrogance, and the imposition of repressive measures under Israeli conditions that have turned the lives of the Palestinians into hell.

Our people waited a long time for the Gaza war to stop, along with the massacres, genocide and aggression that it brought with it, unprecedented in human history. However, they soon faced new attacks on the West Bank, especially the city of Jenin and its camp, where the occupation is carrying out a campaign of ethnic cleansing and evacuating the camp of its residents, while the machine of oppression has shown no mercy to humans.

Our people are accustomed to suffering and confronting the occupation, from resistance with weapons, one uprising after another, one uprising after another, even the diplomatic path in which Palestine opened its hand and shook hands with everyone, based on its right to obtain international recognition to establish an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital. However, this did not please the occupier, who increased the pace of his escalation, imposing one catastrophe after another on our people. What happened in Gaza in the form of a war of execution is the declaration of a new catastrophe, indeed catastrophes that are unprecedented in history, in addition to the West Bank that Israel threatens, and it is not much different, as the tools of the occupation are known, and it withdrew them from Gaza to poison the West Bank through a large-scale invasion of Jenin, accompanied by Israeli threats to expand the scope of the invasion to include most of the camps of the West Bank and some cities, towns and villages.

Hence, we were not surprised to see this huge number of iron, electronic, earthen barriers, or those erected with cement cubes, closing the roads of the homeland and dividing the West Bank into cantons, all in order to provide so-called protection for the settlers who participate with the army in sinful attacks on our people.

To please Minister Smotrich, Israel is waging war on the West Bank, in an Israeli attempt to undermine the ceasefire agreement in Gaza, in order to launch a new aggression against it, and to fulfill the desire of Minister Ben Gvir, here are the army and police authorities and the so-called "Border Guard" strangling the lives of Palestinians and restricting their freedom of movement in the streets of the West Bank by deploying more than 898 checkpoints, as stated yesterday in the report of the Wall Resistance Authority, because the priority, according to Ben Gvir's opinion, is the lives of the settlers.

The turns and challenges of the Palestinian cause these days are dangerous, and they are equivalent to the Nakba and the Naksa and what happened in the first and second Intifadas, but what is important in all these stages of struggle is that our people will not forget, and their struggle will continue towards a memory against oblivion, for this is the story of a people that we will tell to future generations, as it was told to us by those who came before us, so that generations will preserve this cause, and Israel’s plans and the conspiracies of the United States and the West against it will be foiled, because our people have decided not to forget.