Theran – On October 7, 2023, Hamas and Allied Palestinian groups launched an unprecedented multi-directional operation known as the Al-Aqsa Storm.
The operation struck the towns, military pre-post bases and the Nova Music Festival, plunging southern Israel into chaos and prompting an immediate, vast Israeli military attack.
Reports of the investigation and UN fact-finding documented that Israeli forces repeatedly called emergency protocols, such as Hannibal Directives, to unleash indiscriminate fires from helicopters and tanks, even when there is a risk of killing civilians.
These measures could explain a significant portion of Israel’s death on October 7th. This sets the tone of an offensive campaign that international investigators now accuse them of indiscrimination, imbalance and genocide.
What followed was a lingering strategy rather than a single campaign. Maintained air and ground operations, repeated sieges, and temporary pauses and diplomatic decline for prisoner exchange.
Human sacrifice and the collapse of services
Measured in specific terms, the magnitude of human losses in Gaza is devastating. Gaza’s Ministry of Health figures have exceeded 67,000 since October 2023 and have nearly 170,000 injured. UNICEF and other child protection agencies have confirmed that tens of thousands of children have been killed and injured, with ramp malnutrition and pediatric trauma.
The massive displacement was almost universal. The UNRWA and OCHA ratings have at least one replacement of the vast majority of Gaza’s approximately 21-2.3 million residents, and the shelter damage ratings indicate the destruction or serious damage of more than half of the Strip’s residential stocks.
The health system is being abused. Hundreds of attacks on healthcare facilities and healthcare workers have been documented, and many hospitals may not function when they are most needed.
Hungerness, contested operations, and doctrines
Humanitarian indicators were reinforced in August 2025 to an official emergency. This has been approved by the IPC analysis (WHO, WFP and FAO by Governor Gaza (IPC Phase 5) to predict catastrophic food instability of over 640,000 people, increasing more than 1 million people in emergencies or crisis phases.
Its formal classification reconstructs star from risk into a massive documented catastrophe, increasing its obligations under international humanitarian law.
Individual operations repeatedly show asymmetric bills forced on civilians. On June 8, 2024, reports of the death toll among Palestinians were followed, following the Nusayrat RAID, which released four prisoners.
At the same time, Israeli officials kept no secret in their intentions to destroy Gaza’s civilian fabric. Former Minister Joab Garant branded the Palestinian “human animals,” Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called the 2 million hungry people “justified and moral” while Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu proposed the use of nuclear strikes.
UN investigators and human rights groups cite statements as evidence that Israel’s campaign aims to collectively punish and dismantle Palestinian society.
Law, rhetoric, and accountability
Legal bodies register these facts in an unprecedented way. In January 2024, the International Court of Justice ordered interim measures in the South African Genocide Application, including steps to prevent genocide and ensure humanitarian access.
The International Criminal Court issued a warrant for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and War Minister Joab Gallant in November 2024, indicting them for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
In September 2025, an independent UN Commission on Inquiry reported that there is reasonable basis to conclude that actions in Gaza meet the legal threshold of genocide.
What this anniversary demands
A two-year strict register (death list, injury count, evacuation investigation, IPC hunger classification) transformed grief into legal obligations. The discovery of hunger in the Governor of Gaza in August 2025 crystallizes star as a documented crime.
The International Court of Justice ordered interim measures requiring Israel to prevent genocide and grant humanitarian access, while the International Criminal Court has secured high-ranking Israeli officials, that is, judicial measures that reflect the scale of the crisis.
The US Israeli peace proposal, released this fall, focuses on ceasefires, gradual withdrawals, prisoner exchanges and demilitarization, but omits binding forensic investigations, enforceable restructuring monitoring, unconditional fuel, water and food corridors, arms adjustments, and corporate liability. Without these factors, you are exempt from the risk of suspension.