2023-10-24 16:00:09
On October 7, Israel experienced the bloodiest attack in its history. In an unprecedented operation involving hundreds of Hamas fighters from the Gaza Strip, more than 1,200 Israelis were killed. More than 80% of the victims are civilians, women and children. Entire villages were attacked, mass graves discovered by emergency services, young people mowed down in the middle of a concert, and hostages now estimated at more than two hundred were taken to the Gaza Strip. A terrorist attack.
For Israel, this horror scenario has been unprecedented since the founding of the state. It is so by its scale, it is so by its violence, it is also so by the failure of intelligence and of the armed forces which were overwhelmed by a carefully planned armed operation.
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We must reiterate our compassion and support for the Israelis affected in their flesh. In this state of 9 million inhabitants, the number of dead and injured means that every Israeli potentially knows one of the victims. Furthermore, if the impact is so devastating for Israel, it is because since the second Intifada the Palestinian question had been deliberately obscured.
A policy described as apartheid
Indeed, for twenty years and the construction of the wall in the West Bank, since Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza and the confinement of its population, since the unprecedented acceleration of the fragmentation of the West Bank by colonies and the methodical separation of infrastructures , Palestinians have been physically and psychologically distanced from Israelis.
The separation policy pursued by Israel, a policy described as apartheid by human rights NGOs, was coupled with a search for normalization with neighboring Arab countries, giving de facto the feeling that the Palestinian cause, that of the establishment of a sovereign Palestinian state under international law and equal rights, had come to fruition.
Alas, the separation, the humiliation, the violence, the deaths which have marked the daily life of the Palestinians since 1948 and particularly since the end of the Oslo Accords have created an insurmountable reality, that of the will of the Palestinian people to resist. , not to submit to oppression, to assert one’s rights, despite the violence of the army and the settlers, despite the forced displacements, the dispossessions, the humiliations, the injuries and assassinations which mark one’s daily life in the culpable indifference of the international community.
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