Art Kivara Ammar
Before October 7th
1. Haifa Massacre 1937
2. Jerusalem Massacre 1937
3. Haifa Massacre 1938
4. Balad al-Sheikh Massacre 1939
5. Haifa Massacre 1939
6. Haifa Massacre 1947
7. Abbasiya Massacre 1947
8. Al-Khisas Massacre 1947
9. Bab al-Amud Massacre 1947
10. Jerusalem Massacre 1947
11. Sheikh Bureik Massacre 1947
12. Jaffa Massacre 1948
13. Deir Yassin Massacre 1948
14. Tantura Massacre 1948
15. Qibya Massacre 1953
16. Khan Yunis Massacre 1956
17. Jerusalem Massacre 1967
18. Sabra and Shatila Massacre 1982
19. Al-Aqsa Massacre 1990
20. Ibrahimi Mosque Massacre 1994
21. Jenin Refugee Camp April 2002
22. Israel’s Operation Cast Lead 2008
23. Israel’s Operation Pillar of Defense 2012
24. Israel’s Operation Protective Edge 2014
25. Gaza Massacre 2018-19 during the Great March of Return
26. Israel’s Operation Guardian of Walls, 2021
27. Gaza Genocide 2023 is still ongoing.
Let’s kill the myth that October 7th was the start. It wasn’t. Israel’s violence didn’t appear overnight, It began in 1948, and even before, when armed Zionist militias invaded Palestinian villages, burned homes, expelled families, and slaughtered men, women, and children to make way for their Jewish state. The world calls it the birth of Israel. Palestinians call it the Nakba, the catastrophe.
The Nakba, meaning "catastrophe" in Arabic, refers to the displacement of approximately 700,000 Palestinians during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It occurred as Arab states invaded the newly declared State of Israel, leading to the exodus or expulsion of Palestinians from areas that became Israeli territory. Palestinians view it as a national tragedy marking the loss of their homeland.
From Deir Yassin to Tantura, from Kafr Qasim to Sabra and Shatila, Israel’s history is written in massacres. Entire generations were uprooted and turned into refugees. Cities like Jaffa and Haifa, were emptied, their people driven out at gunpoint.
This wasn’t a war between equal sides. It was a colonial conquest, supported and legitimized by Western powers that saw in Israel a loyal outpost to control the Middle East. Read about the genocide of the Palestinians. History has repeated itself many times throughout the ages..
Long before any armed resistance groups existed, Palestinians were massacred, expelled, and ethnically cleansed during the 1948 Nakba. Cities like Yafa, Haifa, Lydd, and Acre were emptied, their people driven out, their homes seized — the blueprint of today’s oppression was already in motion.
For 75+ years, Israel has violated every international law imaginable, occupying land, annexing territory, assassinating leaders, bombing civilians, and enforcing apartheid. Yet, the so-called international community rewards it with impunity, weapons, and unconditional support.
October 7th was preceded by 8 decades of Zionist violence, dispossession, unlawful occupation, massacres, brutalisation, apartheid, murder ethnic cleansing, and the denial of Palestinian self-determination. October 7th was the explosion of a wound left open for 76 years The most shocking thing about October 7 is that it didn’t happen sooner.
The apartheid regime has bulldozed homes, stolen land, starved children, and caged millions under military rule and then feigns shock when resistance erupts. October 7 was an uprising by an occupied people against 76 years of illegal colonisation and the world's longest, most brutal military siege. Who in their right mind would trap over 2 million humans in a weapon testing, starvation death camp, and not expect them to try break out?
Palestinians have lived through a thousand October 7ths, untelevised, uncounted, ungrieved. Each siege, each massacre, each bombing of a school or hospital, each child buried beneath rubble while the world debated “proportionality.” What happened on October 7 was a mirror, briefly held up to a world that had long refused to look.
To frame Oct 7 without this history is to erase the daily terror Palestinians endure, checkpoints, bombardments, blockades, and the slow suffocation of life itself.
The truth is that the occupation breeds the cycle of violence, and the so-called “war on Hamas” is nothing more than a cover for mass ethnic cleansing and land theft. Now that Netanyahu has dropped the mask, openly declaring permanent occupation and annexation, the world has no excuse for inaction. This is not about “security” it’s about expansion, impunity, and a regime operating above every law. The U.S., bankrolling this horror with $3.8B a year, is not an innocent bystander it is a full partner in crime If justice is to mean anything, both Israel and the U.S. must be brought before international courts, sanctioned, and isolated until the machinery of apartheid and genocide is dismantled. Otherwise, Oct 7 will not be remembered as a turning point, but as proof the world abandoned its own laws when they mattered most.
Between 7 October 2023 and 22 October 2025, according to the Ministry of Health (MoH) in Gaza, as stated by OCHA, at least 68,234 Palestinians have been reportedly killed in the Gaza Strip and 170,373 have been injured.
UNRWA recorded over 380 workers killed since the war began (309 UNRWA personnel, in addition to 72 persons who were supporting UNRWA activities), as at 26 October 2025.
UNRWA ran out of food at the end of April. The Agency has not been allowed to bring in any humanitarian assistance including food for almost eight months (since 2 March 2025).
The Israeli authorities have not granted the Agency’s international staff visas or permits to enter the occupied Palestinian territory, including Gaza, since the end of January 2025.
Israel has never sought peace and will never seek it. Anyone who believes otherwise is delusional. Israel is a war machine, an entity built on violence and occupation.
To truly understand this, we must reflect on the past 76 years of terrorism inflicted on the Palestinian people. In 2025, there have been over 860 violent settler attacks in the West Bank. World Leaders have a legal obligation to dismantle Israel’s unlawful occupation and to bring its system of apartheid to an end. There can be no going back to pre-7th Oct days where the world ignores Zionist aggression.
Israel is currently bombing tents again with F35 jets. They have bombed the vicinity of Shifa Hospital, west of Gaza city, al-Shati refugee camp and just east of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza.
They commit genocide with impunity. Israel continues to kill, starve, maim, and displace the Palestinians of Gaza despite the three-week-old truce, There was no ceasefire, they broke it every single day. In Gaza amid the destruction, people still cry out. Do not forget them , do not stay silent. Keep your eyes open, raise your voice, and stand with Palestine.
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