Two Years of the Heroic Operation Al Aqsa Flood

This article first appeared in print on October 7 in the mass movement.

This year marks the second anniversary of the heroic Operation Al Aqsa Flood, where the Palestinian people ushered in a new impulse to world revolution as they stormed out of their concentration camp guns in hand. It is through the armed struggle that the Palestinian combatants have ignited a conflagration of mass rebellion across the world, gaining the support of the world’s people with their heads held high and their guns aloft in the rubble of Gaza. This impetus of world revolution sprouts from the general economic crisis of imperialism, which sharpens all political and social contradictions internationally. The Third World has become a raging fire that burns its way into the imperialist countries themselves, threatening to transform imperialist crisis into New Democratic and Socialist revolutions in the Third World and imperialist countries, respectively.

The Situation in Occupied Palestine

Over the last year, Israel has rapidly isolated itself by escalating genocide while suffering military, political, and economic defeats. Meanwhile, the Palestinian resistance and anti-imperialist forces in the region—particularly Ansar Allah in Yemen—inflict daily casualties on the Zionists, turning the entire occupied territory into a war zone.

In October 2024, the Zionist entity invaded Lebanon with grand visions of defeating Hezbollah and subduing the Lebanese people. After months of fighting, Zionist troops were barely able to make it within a few miles of Lebanese territory and were forced to retreat and accept a ceasefire in the face of Hezbollah’s guerrilla forces.

In December 2024, Israel occupied larger swathes of Syria through its collusion with the newly-installed Jolani regime, and continues its pogroms to this day. However, here too the Zionists have failed to quell resistance, and less than a year later Syrian militias emerged to swallow Zionist convoys, and missiles have launched once again from Syria onto the Zionists.

In January 2025, Israel was forced to accept a ceasefire deal and prisoner swap with the Palestinian resistance, marking a monumental culmination of armed struggle which the Palestinian people called the “Flood of the Free”, proving once again that everything grows from the barrel of the gun.

In March 2025, Israel reneged on the deal and once again invaded Gaza, making the decision to dig their grave deeper.

In April 2025, both the US and Israel jointly waged war on Yemen’s Ansar Allah. The anti-imperialist group delivered a quick and humiliating defeat to the world’s sole hegemonic superpower and its attack dog, forcing the US to sign a ceasefire deal after what the US monopoly press described as the most intense naval warfare the US experienced since World War 2.

Not satisfied with their defeats, the two countries launched an attack on Iran in June 2025, only to once again face humiliation as Iranian missiles carried out record damage to Israeli military and economic targets as well as the US’s largest military base in the region.

In September 2025, Israel grew even more desperate and attacked Qatar and Tunisia, both countries subjected to US imperialism. In Qatar, Israel targeted the Hamas negotiating team in the midst of discussing Trump’s ceasefire proposal in a failed bombing. In Tunisia, the Zionist entity carried out drone strikes on the Sumud Flotilla, which also failed to deter the activists from sailing to Gaza to deliver aid.

Now, in October 2025, ceasefire negotiations have resumed once again while Israel has failed to secure any gains. Despite Hamas not agreeing to all of the conditions set forth in Trump’s proposal, most importantly the condition of demilitarization, the president posted on social media “Israel must immediately stop the bombing of Gaza” in his latest theatrics. Trump’s Gaza plan demonstrates humiliation, a frail and pathetic weakness betrayed. Above all, the US imperialist faith in its lackey forces of Israel has been diminished by the perseverance and invincibility of the armed resistance in Palestine, including in the occupied territories.

Throughout this entire period, Israel—with the full backing of imperialist countries—carried out operation after operation against the Palestinian resistance, each time declaring that they would finish off Hamas and occupy Gaza, only to be swept away in the flood of resistance. Israel’s Operation Gideon’s Chariot, launched in May 2025, promised to occupy the majority of Gaza and defeat Hamas, only to end in failure two months later. In August, they launched Operation Gideon’s Chariot II with the more “modest” aim of occupying Gaza City, which will only meet the same fate as its predecessor. This is because the Palestinian people are welded to the gun, and the very rubble the Israelis create transforms into an invincible fortress for guerrilla operations. This is not a coincidence, but something that the Palestinian resistance anticipated and based their tactics on, as the Zionists cannot do anything else but make genocide and fail.

Likewise, throughout the last year, Israel continued its policy of assassinations, including Hamas’s leader Yahya Sinwar, the immortal architect of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. Following each assassination, the Zionist dogs would bark about the end of Hamas, Hezbollah, Ansar Allah, etc., only to face a barrage of bullets and missiles the next day, and the day after. The martyrdom of resistance leaders tempers a new generation of fighters, and their blood waters world revolution.

The World Situation

It is only fitting that the two year anniversary of the heroic Operation Al-Aqsa Flood bears witness to intensified revolt across the world against imperialism, its expression of bureaucratic capitalism in the Third World, and in solidarity with Palestine. In the Third World, major rebellions have taken place in the context of the worsening global economic crisis within the past few months alone, including Indonesia, Nepal, the Philippines, Madagascar, Kenya, Morocco, Serbia, Georgia, Greece, Mexico, Argentina, Peru, and Brazil. Latin America, which particularly threatens US imperialism, has increasingly taken a prominent role in the development of world revolution, with People’s War in Peru, agrarian revolution in Brazil, and heightened tensions in the face of US aggression.

In imperialist countries, massive demonstrations have taken place in Italy, Germany, France, England, Spain, the Netherlands, Portugal, Switzerland, Australia, and the US, both in solidarity with Palestine and in response to the economic crisis.

Over the past few weeks, millions took part in demonstrations in solidarity with Palestine and Palestine solidarity groups such as the Sumud Flotilla—whose hundreds of activists onboard the ships were abducted by Israel—and Palestine Action in England, a direct action group proscribed as a terrorist organization by the government for targeting Israeli-linked weapons manufacturers. Strikes in Italy shutdown transit systems and blocked ports delivering weapons to Israel, while in France the prime minister resigned amid massive demonstrations against austerity programs and for Palestinian liberation—the fifth prime minister to do so in the last two years. In the US, thousands protested outside the United Nations to expose the hypocrisy of the imperialist-backed New York Declaration, which recognizes a demilitarized, colonial state of Palestine in order to preserve Israel.

All of this is linked to the Palestinian cause, which has aggravated the internal situation of every country in the world by inspiring the masses of the world to rebellion, as well as the economic imperialist crisis, which concentrates misery among the masses and creates the conditions for their explosion and simultaneous rebellion. This confirms the main contradiction in the world today between imperialism and nations oppressed by imperialism, and the era of the strategic offensive of the World Proletarian Revolution.

The Situation in the US

Operation Al Aqsa Flood and the continued Palestinian resistance has had a profound impact on US politics. In the face of billions of dollars poured into Zionist propaganda, The New York Times reported in September 2025—to its profound chagrin—that more voters sympathize with Palestine over Israel and the majority of voters oppose sending military aid to Israel for the first time since it began polling these questions in 1998. The fact that voters—already a relatively backward section of society—hold these views demonstrates the depths of the US political crisis, where every single politician of the two party mafias cling to Israel.

The massive and militant mobilization in solidarity with Palestine in the US has faced intense repression, with the US ruling class using it as a testing grounds for its reactionization. It has labeled Palestine solidarity organizations as terrorist organizations, it has detained and deported Palestine solidarity activists, it is attempting to turn criticism of Israel into a hate crime, and has gone on the offensive on campuses against students and faculty that express their support for the Palestinian cause.

What the ruling class despises most of all is solidarity with the Palestinian armed resistance, particularly Hamas. This highlights Hamas’s success and role in leading the liberation of the Palestinian people gun in hand and the necessity of the Palestine solidarity movement to defend and never condemn the Palestinian people’s leadership and heroic combatants, who continue to fight despite being starved and under constant bombardment. Support for the armed resistance is an important demarcation between those who want a free Palestine and those who want to preserve Israel; without the audacity to even voice support for a starved people who fight for their survival and liberation, such people cannot do anything but capitulate to protect the shards they cling to.

Some mistakenly conflate the increased repression with fascism rather than reactionization, a comparison that only serves to beautify bourgeois democracy. These trends existed under the Biden administration, and the administrations before him, whether it be politically motivated deportations or the ICE concentration camps. The Trump administration has only taken them further, as each president does, testing how far the state can go before being beaten back by the masses. It is a sign of the decomposition of imperialism that the Trump administration has been beaten back so many times.

This repression has and will continue to develop new and increasingly militant forces among the people, leaving them the pending task of organizing the class struggle into one torrent directed against imperialism and fulfilling the two tasks of internationalism: to support revolutionary struggles abroad, and, what is principal, to make revolution at home, carrying forward the lessons of the heroic Operation Al Aqsa Flood.

Photo: Operation Al Aqsa Flood, October 7, 2023.

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