Hamas Online

⭕ Press Statement

🔴 On The 3rd Anniversary Of Al-Aqsa Flood: October 7, 2023 Is A Historic Chapter In Our Ongoing Struggle, Title Of A Great National Epic, & Resistance Is A Legitimate Right Until Defeating The Occupation & Liberating Our Land & Holy Sites


On this day, the 7th of October 2023, the anniversary of the heroic Al-Aqsa Flood battle, all meanings of heroism, resilience, and national solidarity was embodied on the land of glorious Gaza, and made the voice of our oppressed people heard across the world after decades of disregard and complicity with the occupation's policies aimed at liquidating our cause and our inherent right to self-determination.


On this glorious day of our people's history, the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) affirms the following:

First: We stand with pride and dignity before the greatness, steadfastness, and sacrifices of the Palestinian people; who stand firm, despite the pain, and don't relinquish the will to freedom and breaking free from the occupation, and who are proud of the bravery of their freedom fighters, especially from the Al-Qassam Brigades and all resistance factions, who smashed the myth of the invincible army, armed with the embrace of their people and their firm right to resist the occupation that sits heavily upon our land and holy sites.

On this glorious day, we commend our great Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and Jerusalem, who stood and still stand as a rock against all plans of displacement and genocide. The heroic scenes of our people returning en masse directly to their homes and to the rubble of their neighborhoods are conclusive evidence of their deep-rooted attachment to the land and their rejection of all projects of forced displacement, and a decisive message to the occupation and its backers that the land belongs to its rightful and honorable owners.

Second: The Al-Aqsa Flood came as a natural response to, and culmination of, decades of bitter suffering imposed by the occupation through aggression, suffocating siege, systematic killing, deprivation of rights, and schemes aimed at the Judaization of our land and holy sites, the imposition of sovereignty over the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the abuses\violations against our heroic prisoners. The spirit of Al-Aqsa Flood will remain alive in the memory of our people and Ummah, renewed through adherence to our principles and the defense of our legitimate rights. The occupation and its backers' attempts to frame the struggle as having begun on October 7 constitute an outright distortion of reality and its causes; the conflict with the enemy did not begin on that day, as its final chapters are not written yet.

Third: These past three years have exposed the reality of this terrorist occupation and its Nazi character; it has waged a genocidal war and committed horrific massacres, unleashing its hatred against children, women, and civilians, and destroying the vital infrastructure of the Gaza Strip. These crimes have resulted in the killing of over 74,000 of our people and injuring 175,000, in addition to tens of thousands of prisoners languishing in the occupation's jails and thousands others of missing. These are documented crimes, which have no statute of limitations and will only strengthen our people's determination to secure their rights.

Fourth: The genocide has not stopped; rather, the occupation has continued it through new methods, transforming killing, siege, and the deprivation of people from the necessities of life into what can be described as "silent genocide." Since the ceasefire agreement came into effect, the occupation has killed nearly 1,500 Palestinians and injured more than 5,000. At the same time, the aggression continues in Jerusalem and the West Bank, whereas the occupation forces carry out incursions, arrests, and home demolitions, while colonial-settlers escalate their attacks against the civilians, their property and lands—in a context aimed at displacing our people and imposing colonial-settlement facts on the ground.