In December 2025, marking nearly two years since the outbreak of the war in Gaza, Hamas Media Office published a 42-page document titled “Our Narrative: Al Aqsa Flood -Two years of Steadfastness and the Will for Liberation.” This document, or rather manifesto, which functions less as a factual account than as a strategic narrative, summarizes the War in the Gaza Strip from Hamas’s perspective as evidenced by the title “Our Narrative.” This document is similar in its format to their previous document, issued in January 2024, during the war. Although the new version is a lengthy update, the document is written after the ceasefire agreement and adopts a completely different tone and purpose. Concerned about the ongoing conflict, the 2024 version was more defensive and more explanatory in its nature, aiming to answer the criticism addressed to their October 7 (2023) attack on Israeli soil. The new version is written in an apparently more assertive and confident tone, laying out how Hamas f...