From resistance to ruin: how October 7 became the world's alibi for Israel's genocidal war on Gaza

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : The year 2025 alone saw more than 50,000 Palestinians displaced from Jenin and Tulkarem, where entire neighborhoods were bulldozed in military operations described by residents as collective punishment.
57% : Doctors perform surgeries without anesthesia, journalists report amid rubble, and parents bury their children in mass graves, while global leaders echo "Israel's right to self-defense.
56% : Fueled by anti-Semitic persecution and pogroms, thousands of Jews began migrating to Palestine, then part of the Ottoman Empire, starting in 1882.
53% : Decades of military occupation followed, marked by settlement expansion, apartheid laws, and systemic violence.
52% : The blockade of Gaza began in 2007, when Hamas, formed during the First Intifada as an Islamist resistance movement, took control of the Strip.
52% : In early October 2025, Israeli forces intercepted over 42 vessels of the Global Sumud Flotilla, carrying aid and around 500 activists, including Greta Thunberg, about 70 nautical miles from Gaza.
51% : Since 2007, when Israel imposed a naval blockade on Gaza, several activist-led flotillas have tried to deliver humanitarian aid and challenge the blockade.
51% : " Signaling that further negotiations are needed, Hamas stated that aspects of the proposal touching on "the future of the Gaza Strip and the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people" should be decided based on a "unanimous national position and relevant international laws and resolutions."
50% : The Oslo Accords (1993) promised peace and Palestinian autonomy but instead deepened division and control through fragmented governance and ongoing land confiscations.
50% : They have transformed grief into action and ruins into reminders of survival.
50% : In response, Trump urged Israel to "immediately stop bombing Gaza," noting that Hamas appeared "ready for a lasting peace.
49% : The publication of Theodor Herzl's Der Judenstaat ("The Jewish State") in 1896 became the ideological foundation for political Zionism, which sought to create a Jewish state in Palestine, framed as a "promised land," regardless of its existing Arab inhabitants.
46% : " The plan seeks an immediate ceasefire, hostage release, Gaza's demilitarization, and reconstruction under international oversight, with a vague pathway to Palestinian statehood.
41% : The operation primarily targeted military sites and armed personnel, and while some "mistakes occurred," it was framed as a preemptive measure against Israeli threats.
39% : Critics, including Palestinian activists, UN experts, and analysts, argue that the plan perpetuates systemic discrimination against Palestinians by prioritizing Israeli security over Palestinian self-determination, echoing decades of unequal power dynamics.
38% : Israel's blockade of Gaza since 2007 turned the enclave into what the UN called an "open-air prison," where two million people, half of them children, were confined under severe restrictions on food, medicine, and electricity.
34% : Repeated Israeli bombardments have destroyed homes, schools, and hospitals, leaving two million people trapped under siege.
32% : Israel's 17-year blockade turned Gaza into what the UN calls an "open-air prison," restricting movement, food, and medicine.

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