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Al-Aqsa Flood or al-Aqsa Storm is the name of a surprising and complex military operation carried out by Hamas, (a Palestinian resistance group) in Gaza against Israeli Zionist Regime. It was launched in response to the Israeli occupation and decades of crimes including the desecration of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, killings of civilians and children, assassinations, imprisonment, discrimination, humiliation, violations of Palestinian fundamental rights, blockades, and the continuation of Israeli settlement activities in the occupied Arab territories. The operation commenced on October 7, 2023, and resulted in a full-scale conflict between Hamas and Israel, with reports of thousands of civilian casualties in Gaza.
The Secretary-General of the United Nations, in his speech to the Security Council on October 24, confirmed that "the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum, he noted, with the Palestinian people being subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation, during which they saw their land devoured by settlements; their economy stifled; their homes demolished; and their hopes for a political solution vanishing...
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