NOW ON SUBSTACK: "Why Tufan?" by scholar Mujamma Haraket (@MujammaHaraket) on the third anniversary of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.

￭ Most accounts of October 7th overlook the men who actually planned it. Only Muhammad al-Deif, Mahmoud Musa Issa and Yahya al-Sinwar knew the details in advance, and each had spent years in the occupation's prisons and working on prisoner exchanges.

￭ Our new piece traces four decades of Palestinian capture-for-exchange operations and argues that the prisoners' file, more than any other factor, explains how and why Tufan al-Aqsa happened: vocalpolitics.substack.com/p/why-tufan

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