"Gaza has 1.2 million Palestinians living in crowded places and the resistance will be strong"
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The specificity of “1.2 million” lends the sentence the sheen of reportage, a numbers-first credibility that reads like a briefing rather than a rallying cry. But the follow-up clause - “the resistance will be strong” - turns that apparent neutrality into prophecy. It’s less a prediction than a warning, aimed outward at adversaries and inward at constituents. To opponents, it signals: force will not produce compliance; it will produce backlash. To supporters, it offers something emotionally valuable in siege conditions: dignity, agency, a story where suffering does not equal defeat.
Context matters because Yassin spoke from within a politics shaped by occupation, blockade-like restrictions, and repeated cycles of violence in and around Gaza. In that setting, “resistance” functions as both a strategic concept and a moral identity. The subtext is blunt: if you keep millions trapped in hardship, you are manufacturing the very opposition you claim to be suppressing. It’s a line that weaponizes constraint, turning overcrowding into a kind of collective leverage - and, implicitly, making de-escalation sound like the only rational alternative.
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Yassin, Ahmed. (2026, January 17). Gaza has 1.2 million Palestinians living in crowded places and the resistance will be strong. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/gaza-has-12-million-palestinians-living-in-43704/
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Yassin, Ahmed. "Gaza has 1.2 million Palestinians living in crowded places and the resistance will be strong." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/gaza-has-12-million-palestinians-living-in-43704/.
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"Gaza has 1.2 million Palestinians living in crowded places and the resistance will be strong." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/gaza-has-12-million-palestinians-living-in-43704/. Accessed 22 Feb. 2026.