She explained that Samidoun views the Palestinian resistance as critical in achieving the liberation of Palestinian prisoners, specifically through the tactic of capturing Israeli soldiers and "settlers" to facilitate prisoner exchanges. Kates also highlighted that the October 7 "Al-Aqsa Flood" demonstrated the potential for the military defeat of the "Zionist regime." Kates was arrested in April 2024 on charges of hate speech following her remarks at a Vancouver rally glorifying the October 7 attacks and Palestinian terrorist organizations. That is, achieving a prisoner exchange through the capture of occupation soldiers and settlers and exchanging them for Palestinian political prisoners. [...]"The 7th of October, 2023, or Al-Aqsa Flood, presented a reality in which it was now possible to envision, quite practically, the military defeat of the Zionist regime by the Palestinian resistance.
