7 October 2023 is understood as the necessary expression of a structural contradiction, produced by a settler-colonial regime whose founding logic is not coexistence, but the elimination of the indigenous Palestinian people.
Since the Nakba of 1948, the Zionist project has been organised around the material, political, and symbolic negation of Palestinian existence, through expulsion, confinement, territorial fragmentation, and permanent violence.
Within this framework, the Al-Aqsa Flood does not inaugurate violence, but interrupts the normalisation of colonial violence, shifting the war from the plane of the everyday administration of Palestinian death to the terrain of the strategic crisis of the Zionist regime.
It is a historical rupture that exposes the failure of the Zionist colonial project to produce durable submission. Armed resistance emerges not as an abstract ideological choice, but as an objective function of the existence of occupation. Where there is settler colonialism, resistance is not a moral option; it is a historical necessity.
Israel’s response to the Al-Aqsa Flood unequivocally confirms this structure. What befell the Gaza Strip was not a “conventional war”, nor an operation of retaliation, but a war of genocide, conducted in an extremely limited geographical area, densely populated and subjected to absolute siege.
Gaza has become the extreme laboratory of contemporary colonial violence, with indiscriminate bombing, systematic destruction of civilian infrastructure, starvation as a weapon of war, annihilation of the health system, mass murder of children, women, and the elderly, and the deliberate elimination of journalists and humanitarian workers.
In this sense, the Hamas document maintains that what is underway in Gaza constitutes a new holocaust, not as a rhetorical metaphor, but as a comparative historical category of a planned process of extermination, rationalised, justified by a supremacist ideology and executed with the most advanced means of destruction available, under the political and military protection of the United States.
It is precisely in this context that the unrealistic, cynical, and structurally failed character of international demands for the disarmament of the Palestinian resistance is revealed. The document states, implicitly and explicitly, that there is no possible disarmament under occupation.
To demand that the Palestinian people abandon their weapons while they remain besieged, colonised, and subjected to genocide is equivalent to demanding their historical surrender and their political death. The weapons of the resistance are not an external factor to the conflict; they are the direct product of the occupation and will disappear only with its end.
Hamas therefore rejects the colonial logic that seeks to transform the armed colonised into a “problem” and the coloniser, armed to the teeth, into a “legitimate State”. Disarming the Palestinian resistance without dismantling the colonial regime is not only unjust, it is also historically impossible.
The disarmament of the resistance, far from representing peace, would signify the definitive consolidation of the colonial project, the institutionalisation of the ongoing Nakba, and the opening of the way for a new ethnic cleansing, this time irreversible. Palestinian history demonstrates that every time resistance was dismantled, colonial violence advanced without obstacles.
Over the two years analysed, the document shows that the total war imposed on Gaza did not break Palestinian society but reaffirmed its political and moral cohesion. There was no internal collapse, civil war, abandonment of the resistance, or dissociation.
On the global plane, the Al-Aqsa Flood produced a deep fissure in the discursive hegemony of Zionism.
The genocide in Gaza exposed the moral exhaustion of the West, the failure of selective international law, and the structural complicity of the imperial powers.
Palestine has become a historical criterion of truth, forcing the world to choose between the normalisation of genocide or a rupture with the prevailing colonial order.
In summary, the Al-Aqsa Flood confirms the fundamental historical law that there is no “humanised” colonial solution. As long as occupation exists, weapons of resistance will exist. As long as there is genocide, there will be insurgency!
The Hamas document thus concludes with a central strategic assertion: the Palestinian people do not negotiate their own extinction, and resistance will remain as long as the occupation persists.
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