Bulletin N°59 2025 Palestinian Resistance leads urban guerrilla warfare
In a very interesting article published by Orient XXI on September 1 , Leïla Seurat examines the actions of the armed resistance in Gaza [1] , and in particular the Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed branch of Hamas.
She sets the tone by saying, in her introduction: " The adaptation of its tactics to urban combat, which the organization masters, makes it difficult for Israeli troops to occupy the strip, despite their clear military superiority. "
She explains that the collapse of the external fronts (ceasefire in Lebanon, fall of the Baathist regime in Syria) and the breaking of the ceasefire by the Zionist colonial state in March 2025 put the Resistance in difficulty: " After the breaking of the ceasefire in March 2025, Israel initially concentrated its efforts on aerial bombardments, limiting ground incursions. The absence of urban combat prevented Hamas from taking the initiative, often reducing it to the role of a helpless spectator in the face of massacres. "
The following description gives an idea of the Resistance's actions and its successes: "On April 20, 2025, a small group of fighters organized an ambush from a tunnel in Beit Hanoun, in northern Gaza, in a "buffer zone" controlled by Israel. Using rocket launchers and roadside bombs, they overturned an Israeli military vehicle, killed one soldier, and wounded several others. Since then, similar groups have multiplied these actions across the Strip. On June 24, the Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, killed seven Israeli soldiers in Khan Younis, in the south of the enclave. On July 7, again in Beit Hanoun, they attacked a tank convoy a few meters from the border, killing five soldiers and wounding fourteen. On July 15, in Jabaliya, still in the north, three other soldiers were killed in an ambush targeting a team of Israeli engineers. On July 22, in Deir El-Balah, an operation targeted a military convoy and a Merkava battle tank .
Leïla Seurat then emphasizes the strengths of the Resistance, and in particular the Al-Qassam Brigades; first, many Gazans now perceive the war as an enterprise of extermination; second, young, untrained Palestinians are increasingly joining the Resistance, and especially the Al-Qassam Brigades, to carry out guerrilla actions. Despite the bombings and the fragmentation of the territory, the capacity for armed action has not been eradicated. Finally, she explains that Hamas has retained a trump card: its network of tunnels. " Even after months of bombing and the use of advanced technologies, Israel has not succeeded in destroying this underground state, which allows it to hide hostages, protect fighters, and launch attacks. This inability is a hallmark of the asymmetry of the conflict: on the one hand, sophisticated and expensive weapons systems, on the other, homemade rockets and tunnels ."
One important thing we learn is that Hamas has strengthened its ties with other organizations in Gaza: " Their joint operations room, created in 2006, now coordinates a dozen Palestinian organizations. "
Leïla Seurat's conclusion is particularly illuminating: " Netanyahu is now trying to push the army into the tunnels of Gaza City, despite the opposition of military officials who believe that such an operation would take more than a year and would be extremely dangerous. Having failed to achieve its objectives against Hamas, Israel has intensified its attacks in Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and even against Iran , to divert attention from its failure in Gaza. Thus, a gulf is widening between the image of war that the Israeli government wants to project and the reality on the ground. "
This well-documented article confirms what we have been writing for a long time. Ground warfare is not to the advantage of the Zionist occupation army. It is much easier to bomb and shoot unarmed civilians. Even in areas the Zionists believe they control, they are attacked. Thus, a few days ago, the Al-Qassam Brigades probably captured four Zionist soldiers; in any case, their occupation army is reporting them as missing, even though it recovered the wounded and dead after the Resistance operation.
It appears that the Brigades' spokesman, Abu Obeida, was killed by the Zionists. We know that the Resistance lost many leaders, but that this did not stop it from continuing to fight. As the Song of the Partisans says: " Friend, if you fall, a friend will emerge from the shadows in your place ." We salute the memory of Resistance fighter Abu Obeida, whose final message both denounced the complicity of Arab regimes in the genocide and galvanized the forces of the Resistance.
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The daily life of Zionist impunity
The Zionist colonial state assassinated almost the entire government of Yemen, with no reaction from most of the world's states. Imagine what the reaction would have been if Iran had executed most of Netanyahu's cabinet in the same way... But there, nothing. Incidentally, virtually no journalist bothers to tell us that Prime Minister Ahmed Al-Rahawi was a civilian and not a Houthi militiaman, a member of the General People's Congress, an Arab nationalist party.
The Daily Life of Zionism's Useful Idiots
The academic Jean-Pierre Filiu, professor at Sciences Po, has a platform in Le Monde , where he delivers a column. The latest, dated August 31, is titled " The overwhelming responsibility of Hamas in the Palestinian catastrophe ." It states that Hamas, once again designated as the only one, instead of the Palestinian national resistance, " instead of giving priority to the integrity of the Palestinian people, has continued to provide Israel with pretexts to devastate the Gaza Strip ." This rhetoric is well known; it is the one that says it would have been better if there had been no "Al-Aqsa Flood" operation, that of the supporters of colonial peace of the pseudo "two-state solution," dust on the carpet. Like the Tet Offensive in Vietnam, Operation Al-Aqsa Flood brought the Palestinian issue back to the forefront and gave a boost to the Resistance's efforts to achieve the total liberation of Palestine.
The very Atlanticist Edwy Plenel of Mediapart relayed the article; he also denies the genocidal nature of the situation in Gaza. We have the friends we deserve. Attacking the Resistance at a time when the massacres are intensifying is truly a pitiful operation that barely conceals the fact that it serves as a cover for the Zionist colonial state!
In her " Reply to Jean-Pierre Filiu ," Muzna Shihabi, a Palestinian woman from the West Bank who has taken refuge in France, concludes: "It is easy, from Paris, to accuse the Palestinians; more difficult to admit that Europe fabricated this tragedy, that it remains complicit, and that it prefers to accuse the victims to erase its role. The verdict of history is not the one Filiu dictates to us. It is clear: Palestine was not destroyed by its children, but by those who, for a century, have been determined to steal its sky, its land, and its memory. "
The daily life of false anti-colonialists
Last week, we discussed Rima Hassan's position on Western Sahara. Far from apologizing or calling it a mistake, she persists and remains firm. For her, the situations in Western Sahara and Palestine are not comparable, because the settlers in Palestine came from Europe and those in Western Sahara are non-European neighbors. There is therefore good colonialism and bad colonialism. Interviewed by a Spanish medium, carefully avoiding mentioning the Polisario Front, she finally had to answer the question, which could not be clearer: "Do you support the Polisario Front?" The answer is edifying: "I have no opinion on the Polisario Front. The conflict is actually frozen. We must move forward in the negotiations and resume dialogue. In my opinion, there is no military solution." This thinly veiled criticism of the Polisario's announcement of a return to arms on November 13, 2020, ultimately aligns with LFI's position on the Palestinian question, which refuses to support the armed resistance and even condemns Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. Was Rima Hassan's reference to Larbi Ben M'Hidi, at the time of her boat trip, ultimately just smoke and mirrors?
We cannot hold a "half anti-colonialist" position; this amounts to endorsing the imperialists and their auxiliaries (the Zionist colonial state and the Moroccan monarchical state) who organize colonization to the great delight of Western multinationals.
There is no real political opposition in the Zionist entity
We return to the presentation made in the media in France of the colonial situation in Palestine. If a few fanatical Zionist voices still deny the genocide, the majority of our vehicles of the dominant ideology have got with the times and deliver another narrative, one that places all the responsibilities on "far-right Netanyahu", to better exonerate Zionism in general and left-wing Zionism in particular.
The scenario is now well-rehearsed. All it takes is one voice raised against Netanyahu and his government, or one gesture of dissent appearing in the political or public sphere of the Zionist entity, for the French media to revive a reassuring old narrative: that of a democratic, even progressive, opposition standing up to a far-right government that is, in essence, nothing more than an authoritarian parenthesis in the history of the democratic and exemplary Zionist colonial state. Thus, when hundreds of thousands of people take to the streets to oppose Netanyahu's plan to maintain permanent military control over Gaza, the media present these mobilizations as pacifist or humanist calls against the war. However, this interpretation obscures their true objective, which is above all the liberation of the captives. The end of the conflict appears not as a demand in itself, but as a necessary price, the only means of achieving it. The ongoing genocide in Gaza and the humanitarian catastrophe facing Palestinians remain largely absent from these speeches.
Polls confirm this: in June 2025, according to the Israel Democracy Institute, 76.5% of citizens of the Zionist entity believe that the suffering of the Palestinians should not be taken into account in "planning the continuation of military operations . " Only a marginal minority mentions this in its mobilization, itself fragmented: on the one hand, a group represented by Standing Together , which denounces the crimes committed in Gaza, but without speaking of genocide, claiming that the problem comes from the far-right government and that Zionist society deserves better than its leaders; on the other, an anti-colonial group, which denounces genocide and links it directly to the colonial policy pursued by the Zionist entity since the founding of the state.
We are faced with the same logic when reservists refuse to participate in the umpteenth episode of the genocide. The dominant ideology in our country pours out the tale of the awakening of a "moral" army, while ignoring the belated nature of this speech, as well as the fact that many of these people actively participated in the genocide perpetrated in Gaza, not to mention that they often obey individualistic motivations and above all the fear of confrontation with the armed resistance. Certainly, some young people have refused to participate in any military operation whatsoever, they risk up to 15 years in prison, but they are marginalized and marginalized. The majority, as reported by the New York Times , are content not to show up without displaying some pacifist conviction or some emotion at the massacre of Palestinian civilians.
Our media are trying to hide a fundamental truth. The political opposition to Netanyahu, which can be described as center-left, the Labor Party having long since lost its leading position, organized around Yair Lapid, does not differ from the current government on the essential: the realization of the Zionist project. The ultimate goal of the "left-wing Zionists" is the same as that of all other Zionists: a colonial state occupying all of Palestine and even more (Greater Israel), free of Palestinians.
Facts are stubborn. It was Ehud Barak, then prime minister and the main leader of the Labor Party, who, in 2000, launched the image, now overused by Netanyahu, of a Zionist state as an isolated point of "democracy" (read: an advanced camp of Western imperialism) in the middle of a savage environment with his phrase: "the villa in the jungle."
Furthermore, on May 20, 2024, more than forty members of the opposition signed a petition condemning as anti-Semitic the request of the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), stating that " the Israeli army is the most moral in the world" and that "our heroic soldiers fight with courage and unparalleled morality, in accordance with international law ." Another example, at the end of June 2025, members of Yair Lapid's YeshAtid Center party, also in the opposition, voted to suspend Palestinian MK Ayman Odeh, a communist Israeli, simply because he dared to celebrate the release of Palestinian prisoners.
"Democracy," as understood by the ideologues of Capital, is nothing more than bourgeois democracy, and their idyllic presentations of it are lies. There is no true democracy in any capitalist state. But the Zionist entity does not even have the appearance of other bourgeois democracies, because it remains subordinate to the nationalist and colonial project.
Macron, champion of the recognition of Palestine, for what purpose?
Recently accused of "anti-Semitism" in a letter from Netanyahu, Macron responded. His response should definitively convince the naive that Macron's position on the so-called "recognition of the State of Palestine" is certainly not something to be welcomed, even half-heartedly.
Not only does Macron boast in his response of equating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism, but he then elaborates on the reasons for his actions at the UN, including the "recognition" of an unarmed Palestinian Bantustan. Macron's actions therefore aim, according to him, " to transform the military gains made by Israel on regional fronts into a lasting political victory, benefiting its security and prosperity. […] to ensure Israel's full regional integration in the Middle East, […] its normalization, […] the end of Hamas. " Macron's France is clearly not defending the Palestinians; it is defending Zionism.
Only a clear anti-colonialist orientation can support the liberation of Palestine
Faced with our media and Macron, defenders of Zionism, the useful idiots of Zionism, and the false anti-colonialists, a defense of Palestinian national liberation on a class basis, by refusing shortcuts, is the only way to explain the nature of the situation in Palestine and to amplify the fight for solidarity. The recent victory constituted by the liberation of Georges Abdallah proves this.
The struggle on an anti-imperialist line, demanding the end of the Zionist colonial state, allows victories and allows progress towards the liberation of the Palestinian nation.
In this regard, we once again commend the work of the United Campaign for the Liberation of Georges Abdallah, which has enabled the movement for the national liberation of Palestine to be amplified and strengthened. We take this opportunity to reiterate our position on the United Campaign.
For the Revolutionary Communist Party, the "Unity Campaign" must continue and set itself the objective of becoming the gathering place for all those who support the national liberation of Palestine and its armed Resistance, to make our militant contribution, in France against our capitalists and their supporters, to "free Palestine from the river to the sea."