Al-Aqsa Flood: A Turning Point in the Middle Eastern Politics

The comprehensive and effective attack launched by Hamas on October 7, 2023, the al-Aqsa Flood Operation, has become a turning point not only in the Palestinian - Israeli question and the Middle Eastern balance of power but also in modern world history. Being isolated from the rest of the world, subjected to any kind of inhumane treatment and under a fierce blockade for 17 years, Hamas, the Palestinian resistance movement that has ruled the Gaza Strip since 2006, initiated the al-Aqsa Flood Operation and inflicted what is to date the biggest military, political, economic, social and psychological damage to Israel. Israel replied with one of the most brutal and disproportionate attacks against not only Hamas but also against the whole people of Gaza, with a population of more than 2.3 million,a large portion of which were forcefully displaced by the Zionist regime and live in refugee camps.