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Two years have passed since that dawn of October 7 when the Palestinian people, tired of 77 years of occupation, blockade, and humiliation, decided to open a new page in their history. The Toufan Al-Aqsa was not an isolated episode or a sudden event: it was the natural eruption of a people who have been systematically denied freedom, whose land has been usurped, and upon whom walls, colonies, prisons, and inhumane bombings have been imposed.
Today, two years after the event, we remember that on that day Palestine spoke with its own voice. It wasn’t Hamas, nor a faction, nor a party that cried out: it was the open wound of millions of Palestinians inside and outside their homeland. It was the echo of the refugees still waiting to return to Haifa, Jaffa, Lydd, Beit Jala, and Jerusalem. It was the roar of Gaza, suffocated for more than 15 years of a criminal blockade. It was the dignity of an entire people rising up against injustice.
The price the enemy has exacted since then is enormous: tens of thousands of martyrs, entire neighborhoods razed to the ground, families annihilated, children under the rubble, cities reduced to ashes. But that massacre, rather than breaking the Palestinian will, has exposed to the entire world the true nature of Zionism: a colonial project based on genocide.
Two years later, the Toufan Al-Aqsa remains a symbol. A symbol that Palestine does not surrender, that as long as there is occupation, there will be resistance. The enemy may kill, may destroy, may lie in international forums, but it cannot erase the memory or extinguish the conviction that the land belongs to its legitimate people.
Today we commemorate our martyrs, honor our prisoners, and embrace our orphans. We tell the world that resistance is not terrorism: terrorism is occupation. We remind the complicit governments that history will judge them for their silence. And we affirm that, as two years ago, Palestine will continue to stand, resist, fight, and advance toward freedom.
The Toufan Al-Aqsa was not the end: it was the beginning of a new era in which the Palestinian cause regained center stage on the international stage. The blood shed will not be in vain: from it sprouts the seed of liberation.
Eternal glory to the martyrs, freedom for the prisoners, return for the refugees, and victory for Palestine.
UPAL – Palestinian Union of Latin America
October 7, 2025
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