'They call us terrorists': Inside the Palestinian resistance forces of Jenin, West Bank

Israel continues to unleash hell upon the 22-by-5-mile concentrated area of Gaza, in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, with relentless airstrikes and indiscriminate bombings of hospitals, residential buildings, schools, and other civilian sites. As besieged Palestinians shelter and flee and die within the walls of their cage in Gaza, Resistance forces are mobilizing to rise up against an Occupation that has presided over lives for 75 years.
Where there is occupation, there is resistance, and numerous Palestinian resistance groups exist across the Occupied Territories. These groups consist of occupied subjects turned freedom fighters-those who have been directly targeted by Israel, who have witnessed their friends and families die at the hands of occupying forces, and who have been labeled "terrorists" for resisting their slow extermination. In Jenin, a 1km square ghetto-like refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, and the target of numerous Israeli incursions, there are many who have chosen the path of armed resistance, and many who felt they had no other choice.
For those who suffer under the direct oppression and daily practices of apartheid-including the suspension of human and civil rights, military-imposed blockades and checkpoints restricting people's movements, the demolition of homes and killing of family members-there comes a breaking point. Generations of Palestinians, born into Occupation and violence, do not live a life of dignity. As they describe, under these conditions, they have nothing to live for and nothing to lose, and they have everything to fight for.
In July of this year, before the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attacks and Israel's genocidal retaliatory offensive in Gaza, The Real News Network spoke to members of the community in Jenin refugee camp about their lives under Occupation, the role of the Resistance there, and the fight for freedom.
Filming by Ahmad Al Bazz (Twitter: @Ahmad_Al_Bazz, Instagram: @ahmad.al.bazz)
Writing, narration, and research by Nadia Péridot (Twitter: @nadiaperidot, Instagram: @nadiaperidot)
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[@LelenSingsit]

If you fight for freedom in your own land, you are a freedom fighter

[@mohamed88466]

Shame to everyone who think that 7 October was the beginning of this tragic genocide

[@sjk_6797]

Resisting oppression and colonialism is not terrorism.

[@samuelmendulochilumpha9830]

If i were a Palestinian I would fight for my freedom

[@user-tb7xe8jo5m]

Can’t be called terrorist when you’re defending your home and self !

[@newyorkcity5851]

We don't care what the world call us... Long live palestine 🇵🇸

[@user-ov5ph2db5c]

As a Native American from the United States, i stand with Palestine. Now i understand the stories where my old people refused to eat so the young could live. I understand how my people would rather die than be forced off their lands. I now understand that if my people didn't die fighting, i wouldn't be here today. Free Palestine from zi0nist occupation and genocide 🖤❤️🕊💚

[@YoylecakeMapping]

You can't be a terrorist when you are just trying to defend your family, your home, and yourself from the brutal apartheid, occupation, and oppression.

[@PeppermintPatties]

"When oppression stops, resistance stops too." I love that. ❤️

[@toprakugur]

The terrorists call the people of the land they invaded "terrorists". What a time to live in!

[@saad_azeem]

"As long as there is oppression, there is resistance" ☝️❤️

[@abdallahhb]

From USA, Thank you for spreading the truth ❤

[@aminedes6150]

Reading the comments and seeing that the world started to realize the truth about the situation warms my heart.

[@arleighsky7549]

As a person from the west, I see much greater ambition shown by Palestinians than I have ever seen in the west. 🙏🏼

[@birdiesyina5120]

Only blind and deaf people will call you terorist but for us,you are the hero for your country...free palestine 🇵🇸🇵🇸

[@nosratakther8828]

Anyone who criticises or condemn the resistance never understood real systemic oppression, never seen or lived in one. These people live in oppression through generations. Peace deal after peace deal but nothing changes except things getting worse.

[@bosnianlady10]

Here I am in the West reading books, articles, carefully selecting my words, my actions to raise my children in a safe, nurturing environment because all the experts agree that that is essential for every child. So if you grow up in poverty, war, hopelessness, occupation , only miracles will help you escape the consequences. Violence only breeds violence. Keeping humans in a cage will only bring out the instincts to survive.

[@april7455]

As a Palestinian refugee the comments warmed my heart

[@kengarcia3834]

I’m an American in support of Palestinian RESISTANCE.

[@gonzameza5198]

And after this Israelis said ''ohhhh we are the victims''.