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Vol. 1 Issue 58 August 2023 ELITE

Humanitarian catastrophe, or political war?

Rodaina Nader_4th year_ Political Science
Rudenah.Nader2020@feps.edu.eg

Our eyes are on Noble Jerusalem, the first of In May, Israel launched an attack on The
the two tribes, Palestine, the pure and holy Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement

land, about which there has never been and (Hamas), which led to the outbreak of a
will never stop talking about its sanctity, its five-day war between the Israeli army, the
people, their patience, their courage, their Islamic Jihad Movement and other armed
perseverance, their endurance, and their groups in Gaza, and killed thirty people,
patriotism. four Palestinians and an Israeli woman.

Palestine is exposed to many inhumane Hamas fired 5,000 rockets from Gaza at
attacks and assaults by the Israeli Israel and their settlements early on
government and police. In addition to Saturday, October 7, and the leader of the
disrespecting the pure Al-Aqsa Mosque, the Hamas military wing, Muhammad Deif,
Israeli police attacked worshipers in the Al- added: “We have decided to say enough is
Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, in what the enough.”
Israeli police described as a response to The Palestinian resistance surprises the
riots... whole world. For the first time in fifty

Moreover, the occupation forces prevent all years, Tel Aviv is shaken, and the Islamic
ambulance crews from entering the Al-Aqsa Party initiates a large-scale war.
Mosque. In addition to many unannounced
attacks. The real attack is not only in the sky, but
rather an air, land, and sea incursion, as
This is what we have always heard and read the attack is considered an unprecedented
about. However, on October 7, 2023, the incursion into Israeli territory. The Israeli
Hamas movement announced a military army announced the infiltration of an
operation against Israel called the “Battle of unspecified number of terrorists into
26 the Aqsa Flood”, in response to the Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip, with

the destruction of many Israeli tanks and
continuous incursions into West Bank cities,
the continued siege of Gaza, and the Five- military machines, and the seizure of
Day War in May 2023. many of their ammunition and military
equipment, with thousands of Israelis
escaping in dramatic scenes.