230 Palestinians martyred in Israeli occupation attacks in 2022
Today marks the Palestinian Martyrs’ Day, which was declared in 1969 on the 4th anniversary of the martyrdom of Ahmad Mousa Salameh, the Palestinian youth who carried out a heroic operation against the Israeli occupation in 1965. This day also commemorates the anniversary of the martyrdom of 25 Palestinians on January 7, 1948 in Bab Al-Khalil area in occupied Al-Quds by the gangs of Zionist Irgun organization.
The Palestinians commemorate this day in recognition of the martyrs’ sacrifices in defense of Palestine and in the struggle to liberate the Palestinian lands from the Israeli occupation.
Legal Palestinian institutions have documented the martyrdom of 230 martyrs during 2022. However, the Palestinians have offered more than 100,000 martyrs throughout their struggle sine the Nakbeh in 1948.
Since 1967, the Palestinian Captive Movement offered 233 martyrs, 86 of who were intentionally killed by the occupation, 73 were martyred under torture and 74 were martyred as a result of deliberate medical negligence.
It is to be noted that the occupation is still holding the bodies of 372 martyrs and it refuses to hand them over to their families.
The Palestinians consider the Martyrs’ Day as a great national day, in which they remember the heroes who watered the soil of Palestine with their blood, and they always remind the world that the Palestinian blood continues to be shed because of the Israeli occupation criminal acts while the international community keeps silence over the occupation crimes.
Hamda Mustafa