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A year of genocide: Palestinians emerge stronger despite unimaginable pain
Israel's brutal war on Gaza has exposed it to potential legal accountability and failed to silence Palestinian resistance. Instead, the conflict has recentred the Palestinian cause globally, and revealed the limits of Israeli military power, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Members of the Al-Rabaya family break their fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan outside their home destroyed by Israeli airstrikes in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Monday, March 18, 2024

NO-ONE had expected that one year would be enough to recentre the Palestinian cause as the world’s most pressing issue and that millions of people across the globe would, once again, rally for Palestinian freedom.

The last year witnessed an Israeli genocide in Gaza, unprecedented violence in the West Bank, but also legendary expressions of Palestinian “sumud,” or steadfastness.

It is not the enormity of the Israeli war but the degree of the Palestinian sumud that has challenged what once seemed to be a foregone conclusion to the Palestinian struggle.

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