By Tamar Stein, October 1, 2026

Three years after Hamas launched its massacre under the banner of the “Al-Aqsa Flood,” Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir stood on the Temple Mount on Monday, in the middle of Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacles, and turned the terrorists’ slogan back on them. “Hamas wanted to defeat us. They called it the ‘Al-Aqsa Flood,’” he said. “But today, we are the masters of the house on the Temple Mount.”