Resistance continues after 65 years of Che's visit to Gaza.
Ernesto Che Guevara, born in Rosario, Argentina on June 14, 1928, became the most visible face of the anti-imperialist, anti-colonialist and anti-Zionist struggle. Che changed history leading the resistance of the free peoples of the world. Che became a reference and a symbol not only for Latin America but for the world, his revolution continues to be a paradigm of immortal struggle everywhere.
Sdenka Saavedra Alfaro, writer, correspondent for HispanTV
Undoubtedly, the struggle for the rights of the oppressed and dispossessed, and the liberation from the domination of the oppressors, was and continues to be the slogan of the heroic deed of "Che", a revolutionary icon who on his way to defeat all interference of imperialism and Zionism, the evil and greed for power of the West for the plundering of wealth and the exploitation of human beings, led him to cross continents reaching Africa, Palestine, Asia and other countries where he forged bastions of rebellion against colonialism, capitalism and apartheid.
On June 18, 1959, "Che" visited the Gaza Strip, an historic event marking the beginning of the international character of the Palestinian cause, and signaling a new era in anti-colonial struggles as stated by the Palestinian historian Salman Abu Sitta. It was the first time that a famous revolutionary – crowned with the success of the Cuban Revolution on January 1st. of January 1959—witnessed the devastation caused by the Nakba (catastrophe in Arabic), when the United Nations favored the creation of the illegitimate State of Israel, promoting the ethnic cleansing of Palestine at the hands of the Zionist colonial project, where more than 800,000 Palestinians were forcibly expelled from their lands.
Che's trip was made possible at the invitation of the then president of Egypt Gamal Abdel-Nasser, recognized leader of the Non-Aligned Movement, who invited "Che" to Cairo and then to the coastal enclave, where Che toured several Palestinian refugee camps including the Al Bureij camp, witnessing the situation of poverty and hardship in which people were. It was there that Che mentioned the word "resistance" as the only form of liberation.
His visit was of great importance for the Palestinian national movement, part of the "Fedayeen" (freedom fighters, in Arabic), which was inspired by the guerrillas of Latin America, Vietnam and Algeria, and whose slogan was the liberation of Palestine. Later the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) would be formed, with Yasser Arafat being its president from 1969 until his death in 2004.
Today, on the 65th anniversary of "Che's" visit to the Gaza Strip, his figure remains valid within Palestinian Resistance, which remains standing throughout these 76 years of continuous catastrophe, in the face of the resurgence of genocide, ethnic cleansing, perpetrated since October 7, 2023,when the "Al Aqsa Storm" was carried out in defense of Palestine.
The image of "Che" is still alive, in the bastions of the Axis of the Resistance, in these more than 8 months, that the Israeli Zionist regime together with the US, have led to the worst humanitarian crisis in Gaza, to famine, extermination, starvation and it is bringing hell to children through air, naval and land siege in Rafah, and in Nuseirat where the refugee camps are located. Israeli attacks have so far claimed the lives of almost 38,000 Palestinians, more than half of whom are children and women.
Ernesto "Che" Guevara remains the icon of the Palestinian Resistance and his book, "The Guerrilla War" translated into Persian by the sociologist Ali Shariati, a turning point as reflected by great intellectual leaders. Che's contributions were important elements in the struggle and the triumph of the Islamic Revolution in Iran. —the same that defeated the monarchy of the Pahlavi, gendarmes of the United States, England and France.
"Che" lives on in each of the fighters of the Islamic Resistance Movement, Islamic Jihad, Al-Qassim Brigades, Al-Quds Brigades, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, National Resistance Brigades (Forces of the martyr Omar Al-Qassim), Mujahedeen Brigades, Abu Ali Mustafa Martyr Brigades, Al-Naser Salah Al-Din Brigades.
As well as all those who fight for the freedom of Palestine, which are the countries that even though blockaded and censored continue, and will continue, to support this resistance, such as the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Iran (IRGC) and the great movement of the Basij Force, "The People's Militia", the movement of the Houthis (Houthis) and Ansar Allah (Supporters of God) in Yemen, the Hashed Al-Shaabi movement and the Popular Mobilization Forces in Iraq, and the Hezbollah movement in Lebanon.
The struggle of "Che" went beyond the victory of the Axis of the Resistance and the failure of Benjamin Netanyahu will not be able to erase the image that observes us from the walls of human dignity. Without doubt the Palestinian resistance has roots in the anti-imperialist and anti-Zionist legacy of the Argentine-Cuban guerrilla.
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