‘Holy' War Against Israel

On October 7, 2023, Hamas launched a religious, "holy" war against Israel, known as Jihad. The principle of Jihad rejects all laws of the Old World of infidels and calls for a revolutionary struggle for the triumph of Islam. At the same time, Jihad is interpreted as the use of violence in various forms to achieve a religious ideal. Hamas called this war the Al Aqsa Flood after the name of Jerusalem's Al Aqsa Mosque. This war was not started under the slogan of liberating Palestine, but as a war with a religious goal at its core.

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