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The Empire Strikes Gaza - Sami Hamdi and the Death of Dissent

After the Zionist entity informed the United States of its decision to resume its criminal operations in Gaza, more than 109 residents of the Blessed Land of Palestine - including 46 children - were martyred, and many others wounded since Tuesday evening, October 28, 2025, in airstrikes carried out across the Gaza Strip. The bombings targeted civilian homes and a school sheltering displaced people in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza.

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00:00Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh, and welcome to Hizb al-Tahrir's English podcast.
00:06Press release, The Empire Strikes Gaza, Sami Hamdi, and the Death of Descent.
00:14After the Zionist entity informed the United States of its decision to resume its criminal
00:18operations in Gaza, more than 109 residents of the Blessed Land of Palestine, including 46 children,
00:25were martyred, and many others wounded since Tuesday evening.
00:30October 28, 2025.
00:32In strikes carried out across the Gaza Strip, the bombings targeted civilian homes and a
00:38school sheltering displaced people in Bethlehia, northern Gaza.
00:43Following the Zionist latest wave of attacks, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance stated on Tuesday,
00:49quote, Trump achieved historic peace in the Middle East, but that doesn't mean there won't
00:55be small skirmishes here and there, end quote.
00:58Such statements reveal the U.S. administration's utter contempt for Muslim blood, viewing the
01:05murder of 46 innocent children as something trivial, quote-unquote, small skirmishes, end
01:12quote, while treating the delay for recovering captives' bodies as an unforgivable crime justifying
01:19further massacres.
01:20According to Gaza's Ministry of Health, the total of martyrs in the Gaza Strip has risen
01:24to 68,643, the majority of them, women and children, since the beginning of the occupation's
01:34aggression on October 7, 2023.
01:37The U.S. administration's double standards and blatant hypocrisy have become unbearable.
01:42Deceit, broken promises, and opportunism have become the hallmarks of its political strategy.
01:50While America remains the primary supporter and indeed the real orchestrator of the massacres
01:54in Gaza over the past two years, it shamelessly presented itself at the Shadam-e-Sheikh, quote-unquote,
02:00peace conference as a, quote-unquote, neutral mediator, a, quote-unquote, peace banker, and a, quote-unquote,
02:07guarantor of peace, it was expected, indeed, most certain, that America and its protege and
02:14forward military base, the Zionist entity, had been luring the resistance through the
02:19signing of a Shadam-e-Sheikh agreement for the handover of captives and the remains of
02:24the dead, only to renege on the agreement and resume their killing of innocents.
02:29This comes as no surprise from the American policymakers, who have never honored a covenant
02:34or agreement with any international party, let alone when acting as guarantors for an
02:40entity whose moral decay is even worse than that of its American master.
02:45As Allah Almighty said,
02:47It is not the case that every time they make a covenant, a party among them throws it
03:01aside.
03:02In fact, most of them do not believe.
03:04Surah Al-Baqarah, ayah 100
03:06The green light granted by the U.S. administration to the Zionist entity to commit further massacres
03:12in the blessed land also constitutes an indictment of the leaders and presidents who attend and
03:19witness the Shadam-e-Sheikh agreement, foremost among them the leaders of the Muslim world,
03:24Egypt, Pakistan, Turkey, Indonesia, and others.
03:28Their silence in the face of these massacres, just as those before them, is nothing but complicity
03:34and renewed betrayal.
03:35Their presence in the Shadam-e-Sheikh conference was that of false witnesses to an agreement
03:42guaranteed neither by the master Trump nor by the puppets themselves.
03:47The U.S. administration, under the rule of quote-unquote King Trump, seeks to reaffirm
03:53its strategy of global dominance, portraying the quote-unquote King as the one who dictates
03:59to Palestine and its people, and to all who sympathize with the innocent there, a policy
04:06of oppression through killing and persecution.
04:09One manifestation of this was the arrest and detention of activist and journalist Sami Hamdi
04:14during his speaking tour in America after he described the occupation's crimes in Gaza
04:20as genocide.
04:21Hamdi's arrest was not an isolated incident, but a chilling reflection of a broader erosion
04:26of values and dissent towards authoritarianism.
04:30The intimidation, silencing, and criminalization of journalists, activists, academics, and Muslim
04:36groups critical of American foreign policy exposes the hypocrisy of quote-unquote rule of law
04:42and quote-unquote land of the free.
04:44With this, the American administration has not only expanded its blood-stated record of leading
04:50and supporting massacres in Gaza, but has also betrayed the very principle upon which
04:56it claimed to stand, quote-unquote, freedom of speech, ones considered sacred in America.
05:01While the responsible minds among American thinkers, intellectuals, and activists awaken
05:07before it is too late to rescue their country from leaders who antagonized the entire world
05:12and trampled every human and moral value under its imperial boot.
05:19Media Office of Hizb al-Tahreer in America.
05:22Wassalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.
05:26They're playing with vous.
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