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In struggle and in grief: 

Today is October 7th, 2025. Two years have passed since the Al‑Aqsa Flood ignited a brutal campaign of genocide against Gaza.

Two years of unscalable violence, horror, pain, and suffering that our people in Gaza are subjected to by the terrorist Zionist entity and its allies. 

Decolonization is a long path, and the biggest "price" for liberation is paid in the blood of the people of Gaza. 

Renewal of belief in the resistance:
“Mother, O Mother, I have done it! I am on my way back to our ancestral land! I can see it, I can almost reach it! I will never see your face again, Mother, but I had to tell you—I have done it. We did it.”
— A freedom fighter, October 7th 2023, leaving a voice‑message for his mother.

Here, in the belly of the beast, we publish images of the resistance, unfiltered and unapologetic, with our narrative framing. The one that uplifts freedom fighters as our moral compass, one that understands the innumerable sacrifices they make in becoming martyrs for the sake of liberation.
The masked ones are our resistance fighters: they are justice‑seekers, lovers of land, of kin, and of life.

What grounds us, what fuels our continued struggle, is the native’s dream: liberation, return, restoration. It is a dream that shapes our reality. It is a belief so deep, that we breathe it like air. 
The armed struggle in Palestine has already begun to realise that dream. October 7th marks the dawn of a decolonial flood.

This day is a marker in history: the native people rose, shattered the siege, and surged toward their ancestral soil. It is a testament that when the oppressed refuse to be silenced, the tide of colonisation can be turned.

Censorship of narrative making: 
“For spectators to sympathise with ‘the other,’ they must first sanitise and subdue him, sever him from his origin story, rendering him utterly displaced and effaced.”
— Perfect Victims, Mohammed El Kurd

The imperial west's solidarity with us ceases the moment we display images of resolute resistance to colonial violence.
Images of Gaza’s steadfastness frighten the white gaze. It scares the white man to see the native dare to fight back with resoluteness, that "resistance is a choice made with a knife at the throat." 

What the solidarity in the West tries to do is to humanize us, forgetting that we don't need them to confirm that we are humans. We reaffirm our stubbornness and dignity. We stand firm in ​​our unwavering claim to the stolen land and to our inevitable right of return.

Negotiations and the Trump Plan

Today the world is preoccupied with dissecting the U.S. proposal for ending the genocide—not by holding the genocidal occupier accountable, but by handing it a licence to accelerate the final phases of its colonial seizure of the land and the systematic erasure of its rightful inhabitants. The so‑called talks are a façade for extracting a final concession from the occupied—total surrender of sovereignty.

“The more I read about the Trump plan for Gaza, the more it resembles a Native‑American reservation. Genocide, with its arsenal of clearance, famine, disease and now reservation‑style containment for the survivors, is woven into the very fabric of Western identity.” — Dr. Ghassan Abu Sitta

The rhetoric now celebrates the “recognition” of a Palestinian state—within the Oslo framework, of course. The promise of a “state” under Oslo terms is a death sentence, confining a people to a fragmented entity while the occupier expands its territorial grip. The colonizer's creativity continues to find new mechanisms of subjugation:

“We will grant you existence, we will let you live—only if we govern you, only if we rule you, and only if we confiscate your weapons so you cannot resist.”

The un-arming of the resistance:
While the imperialist powers invest more into their weaponry, the indigenous peoples who will suffer the most are asked to put down their arms that are not even comparable to the forces used against them.
This colonizer's dream is the total subjugation of the native, be it in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, rendered incapable of defending themselves against oppression. The settler tries to strip the occupied of any means of resistance because any weapon in the hands of the native is deemed an existential threat to the settler state.

The genocide in Gaza today is the deliberate acceleration of the Nakba—the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians that Zionist settler‑colonizers have pursued relentlessly since 1948.

The people of Gaza and all of Palestine have persisted in relentless resistance, and they demand that we do the same. From within the belly of the beast, in the heart of colonial Europe, our task is to sever every tie and thread that sustains the occupation and its genocide—its economic levers, its diplomatic shield, and its manufactured consent for the annihilation of Palestinians and their land.
 
Resistance till liberation.