On October 7, 2024, dozens of people gathered at an improvised café in Khan Yunis in southern Gaza. Amid the plastic chairs surrounded by plastic sheeting, with access to the internet if you paid by the hour, the customers learned of Khaled Meshal’s statement on Al Jazeera. The Hamas leader was marking the first anniversary of Al-Aqsa Flood, as the October 7 attack is called in the Gaza Strip.
