Analyzing the Al-Aqsa storm operation/An answer to a doubt about Hamas

Mehr News, International Group: One year from the morning of the day when, with the message of Mohammad Zaif, the leader of the Nizam Qassam battalions, a different and surprising operation was launched on October 7, 2023, at the same time as Yom Al-Kippur. Jews began, passed. This year, the speed and number of developments and events in the region was very strange and stunning, so that sometimes the events that were unprecedented and influential could be the most famous events of a year in the history of some countries in the region.

October 7 should be counted as October 6, not September 27

The most important issue and question regarding October 7, is determined by drawing conclusions and illustrating the current situation. That is, by examining the point where we are standing, the question arises whether October 7 and Al-Aqsa storm operation is worth it or not? But it is correct and logical to measure October 7 with the situation of October 6 and 6 decades before it. October 7 is primarily the result of at least 7 decades of occupation and oppression and racism against the Palestinian people. A nation that has tried different ways to achieve its rights and has failed.

Al-Aqsa storm was a reaction to more than 100 years of British and Zionist colonialism against a nation. In a historical experience, the Palestinian nation reached the point where it has no other way to avoid losing its land, identity and values ​​than the beginning of a storm. On the third day of the Al-Aqsa storm, the Supreme Leader of the Revolution emphasized: The behavior of this cruel regime was such that it did not show mercy to men and women, did not show mercy to Palestinian children and the elderly, the sanctity of Al-Aqsa Mosque didn’t keep it, he threw the settlers like rabid dogs to the lives of the Palestinians, he trampled the worshipers under his feet; So, what should a nation do in the face of all these atrocities? A zealous nation, an old nation – the Palestinian nation is not the nation of today and yesterday, it is a nation of several thousand years – how should it react in the face of all this oppression? Well, it is clear that it creates a storm; When he gets a chance, he creates a storm. O Zionist oppressors! You are to blame; You are the cause of this storm; You brought the disaster on yourself. A nation has no choice but to react zealously and bravely in front of such an enemy.

After the start of the Al-Aqsa storm, Martyr Ismail Haniyeh has repeatedly emphasized that they were sure that if they did not start the operation, the Al-Aqsa Mosque would soon be out of its current condition. . Martyr Haniyeh emphasizes in his words: It was clear to us that this cabinet (Netanyahu) with its roots in the Zionist masses will destroy Al-Aqsa Mosque or at least control it. .

Another idea and reason for the start of Al-Aqsa storm operation is to change the regional situation or the normalization of the Arab countries with the Zionist regime. As time passed, this idea and analysis became closer to the reality that if the Al-Aqsa storm had not happened, the Zionists would have sought to end the Palestinian issue in a big regional project.

Shahid Haniyeh says in this regard: “The program of the cabinet of the Zionist regime, the normalization of relations for the integration of Israel in The region was at the disadvantage of the Palestinian issue and the fixed rights and principles of the Islamic Ummah. It is Israel’s theory to establish a regional peace at the expense of the Palestinian issue, and hence, the normalization train reached many capitals. We were faced with these developments, which meant eliminating the Palestinian issue under the shadow of this Zionist cabinet and then creating security and political coalitions in the region, with the Zionist regime at the heart of them.”

The supreme leader of the revolution also mentions this dangerous project in his speeches and confirms that it will be stopped with the Al-Aqsa storm. They say: The storm of 15 Mehr invalidated the carefully designed plan of the enemy. The brutal attack of the Zionist regime is a nervous reaction to the invalidation of their plan. I don’t know if the Palestinian commanders knew what a great thing they were doing or not, but what they did was something that nothing else could replace. They destroyed and nullified a great international conspiracy for the West Asian region with Al-Aqsa storm.

Also, some believe that the action of Yahya Sanwar and Mohammad Zaif was actually a preventive decision before the start of the battle. After the Al-Aqsa storm, documents and reports were published in some Hebrew media, which showed that the Zionists were looking for a large-scale operation in the beginning of 2024 to eliminate the resistance of the Gaza Strip in order to complete the regional project.

October 7 was due to the surprise of the enemy

The surprise on October 7 was not the type of operation, but the type of time and analysis of the will of the operation. The report of the Israeli media has revealed well that there are reports to the officials and the prime minister’s office about some exercises and suspicious actions by the Hamas resistance, but because they saw Hamas in a state of stagnation and demanded no tension. No attention has been paid.

The beginning of the operation was a complete surprise. By the way, it can be considered that Yahya Sanwar’s decision not to inform and coordinate the time of the operation with any party outside the Gaza Strip, including other actors of the resistance axis, was a completely accurate decision to realize the surprise of the zero hour operation on October 7. Meanwhile, the developments of the past 12 months and the lack of assassination of any commander in the Gaza Strip, as well as the Zionists’ lack of access to the remaining 101 prisoners, all show that the Zionists do not have complete information control over the resistance in the Gaza Strip.

Summary

To measure October 7, one should not look at the current situation. The current situation (with any perception) and even the type of resistance management after October 7 is a different issue from the judgment of the October 7 operation. Of course, the correct narrative of the situation of the resistance axis at the point where we are standing now was not the subject of this note, but even assuming that the situation of the resistance has faced serious danger in the past year, it cannot be concluded that October 7 was a wrong decision and the component Many recent years are effective in measuring it.

October 7 should be compared to October 6 and judge the decision-makers’ reasons for its implementation. The information and words of the leaders of Hamas and the resistance and the developments after that show well that if it were not for the Al-Aqsa storm, a major attack to eliminate the resistance in the Gaza Strip would have been implemented by now. October 7 had a lot of expenses; But the resistance decided to fight an existential battle with the enemy and confront it with existential danger.

The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution says: “They have not recognized the Palestinian nation, they have underestimated the Palestinian nation; This is their mistake; They make a wrong calculation here. Of course, the entire Islamic world has a duty to support the Palestinians, and God willing, it will, but this work is the work of the Palestinians themselves. Smart designers, brave young people, deceased activists have been able to create this saga, and this saga, God willing, will be a big step to save Palestine..

They also said in their recent statements: “The Al-Aqsa storm, which took place around the same time last year, was a correct, logical, international legal move, and the Palestinians were right.” The Lebanese people’s fierce defense of the Palestinian people is subject to the same ruling; It is also legal, reasonable, logical and legitimate, and no one has the right to criticize them”.