A Deluge of Pain… When Adventure Turns into a Multidimensional Catastrophe
Analytical Opinion Article
Mohamed Abdarahmane Ould Abdallah
Social and Human Rights Journalist
Nouakcott – Mauritania
Gaza can no longer endure more blood, nor more futile gambles conducted far from the people’s concerns and their right to life. Since the Al-Aqsa Flood operation, voices have risen chanting “victory” and describing what happened as a “clear conquest,” while the reality on the ground points only to a humanitarian catastrophe that no mobilizing rhetoric or emotional slogans—no matter how fiery—can justify.
The bitter truth some try to conceal is that the Strip was—once again—pushed into the furnace of an uncalculated war, led by Hamas without genuine consultation with any of its supposed partners, and without a rational assessment of the balance of power or the Israeli reaction, which was evident to any responsible mind.
The Numbers of the Catastrophe… A Damning Testimony Against Extremism
- 300,000 Gazans forcibly displaced
- 400,000 relocated from their areas
- 30,000 still missing
- Two million people living in homelessness and exposure
- 1.5 million homes reduced to rubble
- Dozens of hospitals completely destroyed
- 70% of Gaza turned into ruins
What kind of mind can describe this tragedy as a “victory”? What sort of triumph deprives an entire people of their natural right to life and dignity?
These are the outcomes of a military gamble decided behind closed doors, without public participation, without respect for the people’s right to know the price of a battle they were thrust into, and without a true accounting of the costs that may extend for decades.
Hamas… When Weapons Turn into Guardianship
Any serious discussion of Gaza’s future must begin with a clear and courageous acknowledgment that Hamas has transformed from a resistance movement into an extremist de facto authority that confiscates the Palestinian decision-making process and uses weapons to impose its vision—even if that means burning the entire Strip.
The people of Gaza have become trapped between the occupation army on one side and Hamas’s ideological grip on the other, with neither adequately weighing the cost of blood as they should.
Resistance without accountability becomes political and military extremism. Whoever monopolizes decision-making leads their people to destruction, regardless of intentions.
A Complete Peace… Not a Warrior’s Pause
Calling for peace is not betrayal—it is courage.
The peace Gaza needs today is not a fragile truce or a temporary ceasefire, but a complete, comprehensive, and lasting peace that ends the cycle of violence, returns decision-making to its rightful owners, and rescues what remains of civilians from a war machine that has become an ideology among extremists on both sides of the conflict.
A peace based on:
- Preventing any faction from dragging the Strip into war without authorization from legitimate Palestinian authority
- Rebuilding Gaza through national consensus
- Building a transparent, democratic political system
- Liberating the Palestinian decision from the grip of uncontrolled weapons
- Ending extremist rhetoric that equates sacrifice with suicide
Resistance Is Not Extremism… Dignity Is Not Free Death
Some who initially celebrated the operation ignored Gaza’s dire and fragile reality. They wrote extensively glorifying the “fighters.” But when it became clear that what happened was nothing more than an uncalculated step that plunged people into indescribable misery, they had a moral duty to speak the truth as it is.
Criticism is not an attack on resistance; it is an attempt to save it from itself, to free it from the mentality of reckless adventure, and to return it to its original compass: protecting human life before land—because land without people turns into a field of ashes.
Conclusion
What Gaza needs is not more fervor, but the courage to admit that the flood was a catastrophe, that extremism does not produce victory, and that Gaza’s liberation begins with ending Hamas’s dominance and opening the way for a rational national leadership that builds peace and restores people’s right to a safe and dignified life.
Gaza does not want new heroes…
Gaza wants a courageous peace that saves its children before their dreams are extinguished.
