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                                                 Palestine  : The Story of


                                                 Resilience and Agression


                                  Mariam Elsafty, Senior, Political science mariam.yasser2020@feps.edu.eg



                     The  day  of  October  7,  2023,  was          Al-Aqsa  Storm  operation  began  with  a
                     known  as  the  most  important  epic  in      rocket  attack,  as  thousands  of  rockets
                     Palestine,  named  the  Al-Aqsa  Storm,        were  directed  toward  various  Israeli
                     where     the    Palestinian    resistance     settlements from Dimona in the south to

                     stormed  by  land  and  air  towards  the      Hod  Hasharon  in  the  north  and
                     Gaza  Strip.  Hamas  announced  Al-            Jerusalem in the east, and coincided with
                     Aqsa  Storm  operation  against  Israel,       the  launch  of  these  rockets  with  a  land
                     in response to the continuous raids on         invasion  by  the  resistance  fighters

                     the  West  Bank  cities  and  the              through     four-wheel      drive    vehicles,
                     continued siege on Gaza. A group of            motorcycles,  gliders,  and  others.  To  the
                     Al-Qassam  Brigades  seized  several           towns  adjacent  to  the  sector,  which  are
                     Israeli  military  vehicles  and  captured     known as the Gaza envelope, where they

                     several  soldiers,  and  many  marches         took  control  of  several  military  sites,
                     came  out  to  support  the  Israeli           especially  in  Sderot,  reached  Ofakim,
                     resistance  and  celebrations  began  for      stormed  Netivot,  and  fought  violent
                     the  Palestinian  gunmen  to  storm  the       clashes  in  the  three  settlements  and  in

                     various     cities.   The      Palestinian     other  settlements  as  well  as  capturing
                     resistance  continued  to  launch  new         several soldiers and taking them to Gaza
                     rocket  batches  towards  Israeli  sites       in  addition  to  seizing  a  group  of  Israeli
                     and  cities,  including  Ashkelon,  and        military vehicles. And on October 9, the
                     events  escalated  by  storming  several       Israeli  occupation  army  announced  that

                     military     bases,      including     the     it  had  regained  control  of  all  the  towns
      22             headquarters  of  the  Israeli  Gaza           that  were  seized  by  factions  of  the

                     Division.
                                                                    Palestinian  resistance  in  the  Gaza  Strip
                                                                    envelope  with  some  scattered  skirmishes
                                                                    continuing,
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