Wars are waged with the goal of attaining a political resolution. Israel's wars are an exception. The war on Gaza following the Oct. 7, 2023, cross-border attack by Hamas has focused on the near-impossible goal of annihilating an idea. Palestinian resistance takes different forms and sometimes fails to apply the laws of war. But international law clearly affirms that occupiers have no right to self-defense, while the occupied people have a right to resist illegal occupations, as repeatedly stated by tireless Italian lawyer and UN Rapporteur for Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese.