Illustration by Kumé Pather. At the onset of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood in October 2023 – a Hamas operation that broke the siege on Gaza with the goal of attacking Zionist military troops, taking 250 individuals as captives within the Gaza strip – we quickly understood that this war was going to be unlike the last major war in recent memory: the invasion of the Gaza strip in 2014 which killed 2,251 Palestinians. While reminiscent of previous wars on Gaza and southern Lebanon in the past few...
