By Elijah J. Magnier Magnier is a veteran war correspondent and a Senior Political Risk Analyst with decades of experience covering the West Asian region. Jerusalem al-Quds, the West Bank and the various cities where the Palestinian and the Israelis have lived together since 1948, rose up to join the Palestinian resistance with its iron fist and its missiles and rockets launched against Israeli positions and settlers in most of the Palestinian occupied territories. Although Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced his “achievements“, he admitted that Ashkelon alone was hit by more than 1,000 Palestinian rockets out of the 4,000 that the resistance launched from Gaza under the name of “the Sword of al-Quds“.