Akin to the Warsaw uprising. People facing extermination rising up hoping to avert ultimate doom at the hands of uncaring monsters.

They knew how outmatched they were, but the alternative is submitting to genocide. Think about the desperation required to take this nearly hopeless fight. The sheer suffering.

I would describe the actions of the Palestinians as, hmm, let me just do a stream of conscious word association here:

based heroic justified correct good successful hopeful kickass revolution freedom