Al-Aqsa Flood: Two years of steadfastness and the will for liberation |
The document Our Narrative… Al-Aqsa Flood: Two Years of Steadfastness and the Will for Liberation, released by the Hamas Political Bureau on 24 December 2025, formulates an interpretation that definitively breaks with episodic readings or those grounded in the security logic of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.
7 October 2023 is understood as the necessary expression of a structural contradiction, produced by a settler-colonial regime whose founding logic is not coexistence, but the elimination of the indigenous Palestinian people.
Since the Nakba of 1948, the Zionist project has been organised around the material, political, and symbolic negation of Palestinian existence, through expulsion, confinement, territorial fragmentation, and permanent violence.
Within this framework, the Al-Aqsa Flood does not inaugurate violence, but interrupts the normalisation of colonial violence, shifting the war from the plane of the everyday administration of Palestinian death to the terrain of the strategic crisis of the Zionist regime.
It is a historical rupture that exposes the failure of the Zionist colonial project to produce durable submission. Armed resistance emerges not as an abstract ideological choice, but as an objective function of the existence of occupation. Where there is settler colonialism, resistance is not a moral option; it is a........