This Article First Appeared in The NDTV On Nov 08, 2023
Just before sunrise on October 7, hundreds of Hamas operatives crossed Gaza’s border with Israel. Within minutes, they poured across, opening the gates of hell. On that morning, neither the Israeli soldiers monitoring the Gaza border nor the civilians living in nearby towns and kibbutz had any idea about the bloodiest attack in the country’s 75-year history. Hamas called it ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’, in reference to the mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City that houses the third holiest site in Islam.