Northern Gaza Will Not Kneel: Take action in days of rage against Zionist massacres and starvation policy in Gaza

As we write, the Palestinians of northern Gaza are confronting continuous siege and extermination. Despite its persistence in horror and massacres for over a year, the Zionist-imperialist regime has not succeeded in eliminating the Palestinian resistance, nor in cutting it off from its popular cradle. In northern Gaza, the Zionist genocidal army has been launching a new phase in its genocidal offensive. Entire families are gathered together, surrounded by tanks and soldiers, forcing them to flee at gunpoint and through checkpoints where they separate men and teenage boys from women and younger children. In just one emblematic case, a Palestinian woman was forced by the occupation army to flee from northern Gaza to the southern Gaza Strip. When she arrived at the Netzarim checkpoint, the occupation army shot her in the feet.

Those who refuse to abandon their loved ones are executed or massacred using U.S.-made weapons. The cowardly enemy is seeking to implement what it calls “the Generals’ Plan“, which calls for the complete extermination of the Palestinian population and the establishment of a Zionist “military zone” in the north of the Gaza Strip, as well as the reestablishment of Zionist colonies, which were forced to leave Gaza by the Palestinian resistance in 2005.

Jabalia refugee camp, a camp whose heart beats with the blood of resistance, the cradle of the great popular Intifada, with a long history of noble and fierce struggle against Zionist invaders, is under siege by the colonial army. The occupation forces are starving the population, blocking all humanitarian aid and intensifying its air strikes to forcibly displace our Palestinian people and the forces of our Resistance in the north, who remain steadfast and committed to true liberation and victory, from the river to the sea. A day ago, colonial army planes committed a new massacre by reducing 11 residential buildings in the camp to ashes, causing the martyrdom of 150 people in just a few hours. Just today, the occupation forces bombed five residential buildings in Beit Lahiya, killing dozens more martyrs. From Jabalia to Beit Lahia to Gaza City, every day comes with new horrors to report in the north of Gaza — massacre after massacre from aerial bombings with U.S.-made bombs and missiles targeting residential homes and shelters, aimed at the elimination of Palestinian families; roundups, strip searches and physical and sexual assault of civilians; field executions; and the mass abduction and enforced disappearance of hundreds of Palestinian men and boys.

The situation at Kamal Adwan hospital — named, like so many Palestinian institutions, for a Palestinian political leader assassinated by the occupation in 1973 — and within the medical complex itself is catastrophic. The hospital has been under siege for two days by the Zionist army, whose vehicles and soldiers opened fire on the building, causing extensive destruction. They deliberately destroyed and confiscated medication necessary for life — another tool of genocide against the Palestinian people. Patients and medical staff were abducted by the soldiers, who burst into the hospital premises and took them to an unknown destination after stripping them to their underwear. Ibrahim Abu Safiya, the son of the hospital’s director, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, who refused to leave his post, his responsibilities and his patients under the brutal assault, was martyred by the occupation. Even after several health care workers were released by the occupation, they returned to abduct Dr. Mohammed Obaid, head of the reconstructive surgery department at Al-Awda Hospital. Several children on life-support have been martyred by the Zionist army’s bombardment of the hospital’s oxygen supply. As in past Zionist assaults on hospitals, including Al-Shifa Hospital, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, Al-Ahli Hospital, the Indonesian Hospital, and many others, doctors and health care workers were particularly targeted for assassination and abduction in a further attempt to deny medical care and support to the Palestinians of northern Gaza.

This comes hand in hand with the systematic assault and targeting of civil defense workers, social workers, municipal workers, security workers, mayors, aid coordinators and other Palestinians serving their community. Palestinian workers have been a specific target of the genocidal forces as they provide necessary services to their communities. This is a deliberate effort to prevent Palestinians from providing aid to one another, coordinating the distribution of international aid, and preserving the organization of their society amid a constant assault of genocidal bombing attacks.

The Gaza Government Media Office denounced the role of international organizations in Gaza, which, rather than supporting Palestinians on the front lines providing health care, civil defense, aid, and other urgent needs, have been standing aside watching the genocide and allowing it to continue:

“These organizations have not made even the minimum effort to provide medical support to help hospitals, healthcare facilities, and medical staff withstand the brutal “israeli” occupation. They have not supplied the essential materials and medical equipment required, but rather watched the humanitarian catastrophe in North Gaza unfold without taking action. Additionally, they have failed to provide support to medical teams facing severe shortages of medicine, equipment, food, and water, leading to the accelerated collapse of the healthcare system in North Gaza.

International organizations have also failed to defend and protect human rights, nor have they played any practical role in addressing violations against civilians. They have shown themselves incapable of facilitating communication between families separated due to the genocide, particularly in cases of detention and displacement, where their role is non-existent. More than 250 individuals have been kidnapped by the “israeli” occupation, and thousands of families have been forcibly displaced without any meaningful response from these organizations.”

We cannot remain silent and allow the Zionist enemy and its imperialist partners and directors to normalize the terror and inhumanity they inflict on the Palestinians of northern Gaza and the whole of Palestine. Nor can we allow our enemies to normalize the kidnapping, torture and execution of Palestinians, particularly Palestinian men and boys, most of whom are generational Palestinian refugees since 1948 who have been denied the right to return to their homes in occupied Palestine for over 76 years. Both the mass popular Great March of Return and Breaking the Siege in Gaza in 2018-2019, and the heroic Al-Aqsa Flood operation both highlighted the struggle for return as central for the struggle for liberation.

Indeed, the horrors of the assault on northern Gaza is only paralleled by the heroism of its resistance, targeting D9 bulldozers, armored personnel carriers and tanks, sniping genocidal soldiers and fighting back heroically to defend and liberate the land of Palestine from the genocidal colonial onslaught of the “Generals’ Plan.”

According to Gaza government reports, over 200 Palestinian men have been forcibly abducted in recent days. Dozens of them were taken from the vicinity of the Kamal Adwan hospital, where at least 30 doctors, nurses and employees are currently in the hands of the Zionist army (see list of current names below). Several journalists are also among the people who witnesses have seen kidnapped by Zionist soldiers. These people are among the few whose disappearances are still documented by their colleagues, at the same time that at least six Palestinian journalists — Anas al-Sharif, Talal Aruki, Alaa Salama, Hossam Shabat, Ismail Farid and Ashraf Saraj — have been specifically targeted and threatened by name and photo as they refuse to abandon northern Gaza; and at the same time that the Zionist regime bombed first the Beirut studios of Al-Mayadeen and then a group of residences serving as a media base in Hasbaya, where journalists in southern Lebanon were staying to report on the battle against the invaders.

Palestinian prisoners from Gaza are subjected to even more torturous and severe conditions than the over 10,000 Palestinian political prisoners held inside Zionist prisons. They are stripped and rounded up by occupation soldiers, abducted to the notorious Sde Teiman prison camp and similar facilities, subjected to severe torture, abuse, physical and sexual assault, starvation, stress positions and other forms of inhuman treatment. The testimonies of those Palestinians from Gaza released have only underlined the multiple reports documenting the horrors to which Palestinians from Gaza are exposed inside Zionist detention camps. In addition, their names are not released by the occupation, they are denied access to any kind of legal or medical support, and their families have no idea whether they are being imprisoned by the occupation or have been subjected to field executions.

The mass arrest campaigns carried out in Gaza by the genocidal Zionist army also target the dead. According to the Gaza government, since the start of its genocidal offensive, the Zionist entity has stolen 2,300 bodies from several cemeteries in the Gaza Strip and partially/completely destroyed 19 cemeteries. Some of these bodies, together with those of martyrs stolen by the occupation, are being returned in batches, in an advanced state of decomposition, often unidentifiable. Most of the bodies returned are mutilated, showing signs of organ removal and other post-mortem surgical operations. These desecrations are a common practice of the Zionist entity towards the bodies of Palestinian martyrs, and date back several decades before the start of the genocidal offensive in Gaza. Even before the aggression on Gaza over the past year, the occupation imprisoned hundreds of bodies of Palestinian martyrs, including martyrs of the prisoners’ movement whose lives were taken behind bars, as well as martyred resistance leaders and fighters whose bodies were stolen following battles where they confronted the invading occupation forces.

Let’s be clear: Israel is a genocidal regime operating with the full support and cover of the U.S. empire and its imperialist partners in Britain, France, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands and others. Western media attempts to distort the facts and invent fictions about what is happening in northern Gaza are a tactic long used by imperialism. Western mainstream news channels and complicit journalists must also be seen as part of the many forces seeking to destroy the Palestinian cause and our struggle. Rather than commit to the principles of truth and integrity, these entities and individuals attempt to “pass off” the burning of people alive, the execution of women and children in cold blood, and the attempted displacement of hundreds of thousands of people from their homes as legitimate and justified acts on the part of the Zionist entity.

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network calls on all organizations and groups supporting the struggle of the Palestinian people to document and inform about the reality of the genocide in Gaza, to mobilize and escalate in support of the tens of thousands of Palestinian prisoners currently in the hands of the Zionist entity, and to organize actively in support of the resistance and the Palestinian and Lebanese people in this decisive phase of the national liberation struggle unfolding before our eyes today. Like the principle of Sinwar’s stick (Asa al Sinwar), we must take upon ourselves the duty to resist zionism and imperialism from wherever we are, however we can, to our very last breath, until the liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea, and the liberation of the region and the people of the world from imperialism.

Known names of detainees from the Kamal Adwan Hospital medical team:

• Mahmoud Labad
• Mahmoud Abu Amsha
• Ahmed Radwan
• Mohammed Assaf
• Abdullah Al-Qattati
• Hatem El Jammal
• Mohammed Al Khatib
• Jafar Abu Al-Moazah
• Hatem Al Ajrami
• Wissam Abu Nada
• Abdullah Awkal
• Samir Al-Ajrami
• Abdullah Abu Rafie
• Ahmed Shaheen
• Dr. Mohammed Obaid
• Dr. Hassan Al-Muqayed
• Dr. Mohammed Zaher
• Dr. Mosaab Ruwaished
• Nidal Al-Muqayed
• Mahmoud Al-Muqayed
• Mahmoud Saleh
• Abu Hassan Al Kurd
• Mahmoud Hammad
• Farouk Odeh
• Maher Ahmed
• Hussein Abed
• Ahmed Nassar
• Moataz Nassar
• Hassan Nassar
• Imad Al-Khatib

The Government Media Office published an update of the most important statistics of the genocidal war waged by the occupation on the Gaza Strip for the 385th day, Friday, October 25, 2024:

• 385 days of genocide.
• 3,738 massacres committed by the occupation army.
• 52,885 martyrs and missing persons.
• 10,000 missing.
• 42,885 martyrs who arrived at hospitals (Ministry of Health).
• 17,210 child martyrs.
• 171 infants were born and martyred in the genocidal war.
• 786 children were martyred during the war and they were less than one year old.
• 1206 Palestinian families, all of whose members were killed by the occupation and erased from the civil registry.
• 37 were martyred as a result of famine.
• 11,742 female martyrs.
• 1047 martyred health care workers (Ministry of Health).
• 85 martyrs from the Civil Defense
• 177 martyred journalists.
• 7 Mass graves were established by the occupation inside hospitals.
• 520 martyrs were recovered from 7 mass graves inside hospitals.
• 100,544 wounded and injured people arrived at hospitals. (Ministry of Health).
• 396 journalists and media professionals were injured and wounded.
• 69% of the victims are children and women.
• 197 shelters were targeted by the “Israeli” occupation.
• 35,055 children living without their parents or without one of them.
• 3,500 children are at risk of death due to malnutrition and lack of food.
• 171 days after the closure of all Gaza Strip crossings.
• 12,000 wounded people need to travel abroad for treatment.
• 12,500 cancer patients are facing death and need treatment.
• 3,000 patients with various diseases need treatment abroad.
• 1,737,524 people infected with or at risk of infectious diseases as a result of displacement.
• 71,338 cases of viral hepatitis infection due to displacement.
• 60,000 pregnant women are at risk due to lack of health care.
• 350,000 chronic illness patients are at risk due to the prevention of drug imports.
• 5,280 detainees from the Gaza Strip during the genocide war.
• 310 cases of arrest of health personnel (3 doctors were assassinated).
• 38 cases of arrest of journalists whose names are known.
• 2 million displaced people in the Gaza Strip.
• 100,000 tents are worn out and no longer suitable for the displaced.
• 205 government headquarters were destroyed by the occupation.
• 126 schools and universities were completely destroyed by the occupation.
• 339 schools and universities were partially destroyed by the occupation.
• 12,700 students were killed by the “Israeli” occupation during the war.
• 785,000 students were deprived of education by the “Israeli” occupation.
• 750 teachers and educational employees in the education sector were killed by the occupation during the war.
• 130 scientists, academics, university professors and researchers were executed by the occupation.
• 814 mosques were completely destroyed by the occupation.
• 148 mosques were severely destroyed by the occupation and need to be restored.
• 3 Churches targeted and destroyed by the occupation.
• 19 cemeteries were completely or partially destroyed by the occupation out of (60) cemeteries.
• 2,300 bodies were stolen by the occupation from many cemeteries in the Gaza Strip.
• 150,000 housing units were completely destroyed by the occupation.
• 80,000 housing units destroyed by the occupation are uninhabitable.
• 200,000 housing units were partially destroyed by the occupation.
• 85,500 tons of explosives were dropped by the occupation on the Gaza Strip.
• 34 hospitals were put out of service by the occupation.
• 80 health centers were put out of service by the occupation.
• 162 health institutions were targeted by the occupation.
• 132 ambulances were targeted by the occupation.
• 206 archaeological and heritage sites destroyed by the occupation.
• 3,130 kilometers of electricity networks were destroyed by the occupation.
• 125 Number of destroyed underground electricity distribution transformers.
• 330,000 linear meters of water networks were destroyed by the occupation.
• 655,000 linear meters of sewage networks were destroyed by the occupation.
• 2,835,000 linear meters of road and street networks were destroyed by the occupation.
• 36 athletic facilities, playgrounds and sports halls were destroyed by the occupation.
• 700 water wells were destroyed by the occupation and put out of service.
• 86% is the percentage of destruction in the Gaza Strip.
• 36 billion dollars is the direct initial losses of the genocidal war.