Finding Muna: A Palestinian Novel

Chapter Eleven

"Hello everyone, I hope everything is going on well over there, I saw a comment from yesterday that I quickly wanted to address," Muna said as she stared right into the camera with a straight face.

"While I'm not someone who readily dwells on comments especially when they're from users who have no lives, I decided I would talk about it just to educate the people who are actually in the dark about what's happening over here at Gaza strip," she gulped as she lowered her gaze and stared at her finger, biting her lower lip in distress.

"Many of the people are only exposed to what happened on October 7th, and they're unwilling to hear about or learn about what has been happening for the past 75 years, even before October 7th."

"They are unwilling to learn that October 7th is a just result of retaliation, October 7th is a result of retaliation from a people who were oppressed and tired of being oppressed. October 7th is only a day worth of retaliation yet everyone was quick to condemn Hamas and wholeheartedly ignore what has been happening in Palestine for years and years on end."

"People are quick to say Hamas terrorist, to label them as terrorists, yet the IDF are a nation's military, making it an excuse for them to kill innocent civilians, over 11,000 civilians in which almost four thousand are babies."

"They forget that Hamas is a movement which was created barely twenty years ago, and even before the emergence of Hamas, the Palestinians have been treated brutally and killed inhumanely, but when Hamas decides enough is enough, everyone suddenly sees Israel as the victim, they place Israel and Palestine on an equal plane, telling us that what is going on is an equal war."

"A country who is backed by the world power and is constantly supplied militant tanks and missiles and air strikes versus a state in which almost everyone is displaced, with no proper governance not to speak of military power; you dare place us on the same plane and say we're fighting equal war?" Muna asked in disbelief as she scoffed, blinking as much as possible to push back the tears that threatened to spill.

"If you're asking me if I condemn Hamas for killing some innocent civilians in Israel then I wholeheartedly condemn them for that, nowhere in Islam were we encouraged to killed innocent children, women and elderly people and civilians and if a war is needed, then the war would take place in a stated place, and only men who are capable are the ones who would face the war."

"But did Hamas really kill people, rape women; did Hamas really start a holocaust against the innocent civilians like the Zionist media has presented to us? Do we really know what happened on October 7th? Or are we being fed with lies?"

"October 7th is one of the biggest ongoing cover ups in recent memory, a grand lie to distract you from the truth and it's been working. The Palestinians didn't behead babies, they didn't put babies in ovens, didn't rape women, they didn't torture civilians, so many of us have been so focused on what didn't happen but what we need to do now is focus on what did happen because Israel is terrified of the truth."

"What really happened on October 7th and why is Israel trying so hard to cover it up? The truth is that on October 7th, resistance fighters from Gaza carried out a daring military operation against a juggernaut and they succeeded. Israel in its hubris had begun to believe that the Palestinian movement was uninterested in armed resistance from within the confines of their concentration camps."

"Underdogs from Gaza had to avoid detection from constant surveillance, satellites, informants, collaborators, motion detections and seismic sensors and 24/7 monitoring by 2G phone networks, border cameras and overhead drones. They undermined Israel's security apparatus by planning details on pen and paper, feeding false information to informants and leverage Israeli arrogance and complacency to plan and operate relatively undetected."