They desecrated places of worship. They razed homes and schools. They damaged hospitals. They killed women and children. They killed elderly people. They occupied a sovereign territory. As if that was not enough, they mocked someone’s religion.
On Wednesday, the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) dropped leaflets over Khan Yunis, a city in southern Gaza, which cited a Qur’anic verse making reference to the floods that wiped away the people of Noah.
Written in Arabic, thousands of leaflets bearing the emblem of the occupation army and the Star of David read: “Then the Flood overtook them, while they persisted in wrongdoing”.
It was unclear to the city’s residents what the latest theatric was supposed to mean. Some linked it to the name of the Hamas resistance movement’s retaliatory operation on 7 October, known officially as Operation Al Aqsa Flood. Others speculated it was a warning of worse to come, possibly having something to do with plans to flood a supposed tunnel network underneath Gaza.
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Leaflets and plans to flood tunnels
The downpour of leaflets came as apartheid Israel waged a campaign of terror on the besieged Gaza Strip for the second consecutive month. The Wall Street Journal earlier reported that the IDF planned to pump sea water into the resistance’s tunnel network.
Five large pumps have been assembled north of the al-Shati refugee camp during the last month, with each one capable of pumping thousands of cubic metres of seawater into the tunnels, reported The Jerusalem Post.
Should the terrorist regime go ahead with the plan, it would not be the first time Hamas tunnels were flooded. In 2015, Egyptian authorities pumped sea water from the Mediterranean Sea to prevent use of the tunnels.
