A Peek into the West Bank

The Palestinian cause did not begin on October 7. Resistance to occupation is not shameful. And no one should fear to support it.

I have spent my entire life watching terrorist Jewish groups murder our people while the world expects us to accept it in silence. As a child, I once asked my father why his toenails grew sideways. He smiled and told me it was because in their prisons, his toenails had been pulled out with pliers. His only "crime" was staying in his home and refusing to flee.

Life in the West Bank is life inside seven concentration camps disguised as cities. Terrorist Jewish forces control every road in and out. Sometimes, a teenage settler-soldier — bored, angry, or drunk on power — can shut down an entire city with a gesture. I lived through the Second Intifada, through bombings and tank invasions. At nine years old, I was nearly crushed by a tank. At eleven, by a military jeep. We are forced to accept this reality, reinforced by a Zionist-controlled Palestinian Authority that normalizes this fascist regime.

The highways connecting our towns are shared with settlers. For us, they are death traps: one wrong turn, one wrong lane, and Palestinians are killed. But when a colonizer wanders into a Palestinian village, the so-called Palestinian authorities rush to escort him back to his colony or to the nearest military base.

At every turn of these roads, there are checkpoints run by the terrorist Jewish occupation forces. They can search your body, your car, your phone. If they dislike what they find — or if they simply feel like it — they can throw you into administrative detention for months or years, without charges, without trial. Many never return. Some are executed over the smallest infraction. These are not cities. These are concentration camps. And this is only a glimpse of what the West Bank truly is.

In Gaza, the story sharpens. For seventeen years, the strip has been under siege. Terrorist Jewish groups control every import, every export, every human movement. That resistance still exists there is nothing short of a miracle. Hamas, governing Gaza since 2007, has worked to build under siege, to resist under siege, to live under siege — all before the ongoing ethnic cleansing began. The day Hamas expelled the Zionist-controlled Authority from Gaza, we call it The Cleansing — a day of liberation that planted the seeds of the resistance we witness today.

Now, the masks have fallen and the truth is bare: terrorist Jewish lobbies dominate politics, media, and economies across the world. They secure impunity for genocide, silence opposition, and criminalize solidarity. Meanwhile, Palestinians are killed, starved, tortured, and burned with internationally banned weapons — and the world looks away. Over a hundred Palestinian women have been raped, with evidence, yet the media remains silent.

Gaza is being destroyed piece by piece. The last habitable areas are being erased. They tell people to evacuate — but to where? To rubble? To hospitals that no longer exist? To Khan Younis, where homes are uninhabitable and shops are empty shells? This is not evacuation. It is forced extermination.