Resistance fighters heavily open fire on the colonial Awarta checkpoint east of #Nablus.

Today, we honor the martyred sheikh and commander Nour Baraka and the Edge of the Sword operation.

Four years ago in Gaza, Nour and resistance fighters thwarted a secret IOF plan to enter Gaza and spy on resistance. When a car of undercover zionists approached, having already snuck through a main checkpoint, Nour was especially skeptical and interrogated the IOF who were disguised as NGO workers. Certain their cover was blown, they began shooting. Baraka ascended to martyrdom, and a high-ranking IOF soldier was killed. Six others were martyred in this operation: Omar AbuHatar, Mohammad AlQara, Ala Koidar, Mustafa AbuOdeh, Mahmoud Masabach, and Ala Fasifis. Within minutes, an IOF helicopter and planes arrived to escort the invaders, blowing up their van with dozens of IOF rockets to hide evidence. Nour and fellow fighters humiliated the most "elite" of the IOF and were rewarded with martyrdom, reaffirming that Gaza is forbidden to the enemy. "Nour" means light; Nour's light will never be extinguished.

We also honor the martyred prisoner Kamal Abu Waer, who was martyred on this day two years ago after being slowly assassinated by the prisons of the zionist entity through deliberate medical negligence. It is a deep shame that his martyrdom was overlooked because it coincided with the death of the traitor Saeb Erakat, the ex-Secretary General of the PLO who aided in the killing of Palestinians and selling out the homeland. But we will never forget our prisoners. They are the bone marrow of our struggle, and they resist the occupation more than anybody else, as they do so constantly from within the confines of their cells.

Kamal was sentenced to six life sentences plus 50 years, an absurd amount of time but typical for the zionist occupation; they cannot conceive that we will remember our heroic martyrs for much longer than this arbitrary time. The world should know that we will never forget our martyrs. We honor them, and we uphold our prisoners' struggle until liberation and return and what comes after it.

🚨 BREAKING: Power has been cut off in all parts of Al-Shifa Hospital in northern #Gaza except for the emergency building. For the last week, the hospital has been powered by its backup generator.

🚨 Documentation of the moment that electricity was completely cut off in Al-Shifa Medical Complex in #Gaza moments ago.

🚨 Power has returned to Al-Shifa Medical Complex in northern #Gaza.

🚨 Seven martyrs were recovered from the Al-Kahlout home in Beit Lahia, northern #Gaza. Other martyrs and wounded are being removed from under the rubble of the home by rescue crews.

Let the flags unite.
The united resistance, from Yemen to Iraq to the Levant, paves the path to liberation and return. United we will head towards our blessed Al-Quds.

🚨 Armed clashes have broken out between resistance fighters and zionist forces during their invasion of Silat Al-Dhaher, #Jenin.

Resistance fighters open fire on the "Beit El" settlement north of #Ramallah.

Resistance fighters opened fire on invading zionist forces in #Nablus, targeting them now with explosive devices and gunfire during the forces' withdrawal.

Resistance fighters open fire on zionist forces withdrawing from #Ramallah neighborhoods following an invasion.

🚨 BREAKING: All contact has been lost with journalists and medical crews within Al-Shifa Hospital as communications appear to be interrupted.

🚨 Missile sirens ring in “Kissufim” IOF site following a barrage of rockets fired by the resistance in #Gaza.

Ministry of Interior:
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Six martyrs and a number of wounded as a result of occupation aircraft targeting the Badwan family home, west of the Nusseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Resistance begins with you. Shatter the walls surrounding your mind.
"Liberate your mind before the land," in the words of the revolutionary intellectual martyr Basil Al-Araj.

Basil calls on us to challenge to perceived invincibility of oppressive forces: their power comes not from their weapons, but from our own minds.

"Start with yourself." Take direct action to challenge oppression, as Basil did. Recognize your own capacity to create change. It is a battle to reclaim minds, dignity, and land.

Khaled Odetalah, in mourning Basil, said: "Basil did not call on us to be resistance fighters. Nor did he call on us to be revolutionaries. Basil told us to be true; that is all. If you are true, you will be revolutionaries and resistance fighters."

You may learn more about the "revolutionary intellectual" martyr Basil Al-Araj at the following links: ground war advice; Basil on "liberating your mind before the land;" RNN Basil Poster #1, RNN Basil Poster #2, RNN Basil Poster #3, RNN Basil Poster #4, RNN Basil Poster #5; Nablus residents on the anniversary of Basil's martyrdom; RNN's Basil feature (Part one and two).

External links: On the PA, dismantle it and let them fall; Basil Al-Araj on the Alley of Death operation (in Arabic); Why Do We Go to War? by Basil Al-Araj (archived); book review of Basil's works; Samidoun Network commemorates Basil.

“Not a day has passed without an act of resistance; not a single day! The rate of resistance ebbs and flows, but always remains above the the zero line. Not once did it disappear, not for a single day in our history.”