Operation Al-Aqsa Flood...is an extended military operation launched by the Palestinian resistance factions in the Gaza Strip, led by the Hamas movement through its military arm, the Martyr Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades. In the early morning hours of Saturday (October 7 , 2023 AD) corresponding to (22 Rabi’ al-Awwal 1445 AH), the Commander-in-Chief of the Brigades, Muhammad al-Deif , announced the start of the operation in response to “the Israeli violations in the courtyards of the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Israeli settlers’ assault on Palestinian citizens in Jerusalem , the West Bank, and the occupied interior.”Operation Al-Aqsa Flood began with a large-scale missile attack launched by the resistance factions. Thousands of missiles were directed at various Israeli settlements from Dimona in the south to Hod Hasharon in the north and Jerusalem in the east. The launching of these missiles coincided with a ground incursion by the resistance factions using four-wheel drive vehicles, motorcycles and aircraft. ...They took control of a number of military sites, especially in Sderot , and they reached Ofakim , and stormed Netivot, and fought violent clashes in the three settlements and in other settlements. They also captured a number of soldiers and took them to Gaza, in addition to Seizing a group of Israeli military vehicles.
Every "settlement" is described as a military base. Even when it admits that terrorists entered homes it says they were engaged in battles with the IDF.
They are literally erasing history.
It indicates that there is at least a little embarrassment over the slaughter of civilians, which is incompatible with the message of brave mujahadeen standing up to the mighty IDF, but more than that it shows that any crumb of sympathy for Israeli victims must be swept away - there can only be victims on one side, and the Palestinians zealously guard their exclusive victimhood status.
Which is exactly why we see the "kidnapped" posters being ripped down in so many American and European cities. The very idea that Jews could be victims of terror and kidnapping is judged as taking away from Palestinian victimhood when you are playing a zero-sum game, so history itself must be changed to fit the Palestinian narrative.
This is similar to the reasons for Palestinian Holocaust denial - Jews must not be seen as victims. When the explicit Holocaust denial itself became a source of shame as it was criticized in the West, they morphed the story to claim that Jews themselves were responsible for their own deaths.
I have yet to see any Arab in Arabic upset over this mass whitewashing of terror. Because, as Yasir Arafat is rumored to have said, "I kill for my cause - why wouldn't I lie for it?"
