Three years have passed since October 7th, 2023.
Three years of death and destruction.
For those living between the river and the sea, much has changed in these three painful years. What hasn't changed is the system that brought this catastrophe into our lives.
The morning of October 7th we woke up to the sound of sirens and the feeling of fear in our stomachs. More than 1,200 Israelis were killed on that horrific day, 251 were kidnapped. We lost friends and partners that day.
More than 74,000 Palestinians have been killed since. The system of military control over millions of Palestinians has always been violent, and it has also bred violence. These three years have been tragic proof of this.
Three years, and counting. More than 1,100 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the so-called “ceasefire” began, including two killed just yesterday. Almost the entire population of Gaza has been forced into less than a third of the Strip’s territory, where most people live in overcrowded tent camps without functioning public health or education systems.
For Palestinians in the West Bank, IDF-backed settler terror has long become a daily reality. Since October 2023, 65 Palestinian communities have been ethnically cleansed, while more than 250 settler outposts and over 100 settlements have been established under this government.
The occupation is the system that produces this violence and perpetuates it. The only way to break the cycle is to dismantle the system.