Highlights from Qassam Brigades’ spokesman Abu Obeida on the first anniversary of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, October 7 this year 2024.
○ Our decision to ignite the Battle of Al-Aqsa Flood was a cry in the face of the enemy and the silent, conspiratorial, helpless world in the face of the oppression of our people. The current occupation government, with its terrorist hatred, does not want to see a single Palestinian west of the Jordan River. This is what Netanyahu expressed in the maps he presented to the world.
○ A year on, our fighters of all factions continue their steadfastness and heroic fighting with solid determination, in every inch of the Gaza Strip. wherever there are enemy soldiers, vehicles or military gatherings, they face an unprecedented heroic battle.
○ Our decision is to continue the confrontation, in a long, painful, and extremely costly battle of attrition for the enemy for as long as it insists on continuing the aggression.
○ If assassinations were a victory, the resistance would have ended with the assassination of Sheikh Izz al-Din al-Qassam 90 years ago. However, the resistance continued and grew stronger. If brutality, house demolitions, and revenge had stopped the resistance, the heroes of Gaza would not have humiliated the enemy in every street and alley after every war.
○ We confirm that the operations taking place today in the region, and the participation of the fronts of Yemen and Lebanon in particular, are honorable and appreciated positions from our people and their conscience.
○ We salute all the resistance forces in the region and our free brotherly peoples.
○ We are confident in Hezbollah’s steadfastness and courage in inflicting heavy and painful losses on the Zionist enemy forces, as the martyr Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah promised.
○ What is happening today in the occupied West Bank and occupied Jerusalem confirms that the enemy’s crimes in Gaza are no exception. It is a systematic policy practiced everywhere our people are present, as the occupation seeks to displace us and kill our identity through slow methods of extermination.
○ Our people know that this enemy only understands the language of force and that weapons can only be confronted with weapons. In the West Bank, our resistance fighters taught the enemy harsh lessons, reminding us that our people will not retreat until their full rights are restored.
○ We say to the captives’ families that they could have recovered their prisoners alive a year ago. If that was in line with Netanyahu's ambitions and interests, the deal would have been done. Since day one, we have been keen to protect them and preserve their lives.
○ It is unreasonable to intend to kill or harm prisoners, as this is not part of the teachings of our religion. What happened with the six prisoners in Rafah could happen again if the Netanyahu government continues to be stubborn and place obstacles in the way of the exchange deal.
○ The Zionists must understand that they are outcasts from the entire free world and that the umbrella of shame provided to them by the American administration and some Western European governments is a perforated umbrella.
○ We ask the scholars and preachers of our [Islamic] Ummah: Are you waiting for a morning when you wake up to the news of the demolition of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, God forbid?
○ The least to be done is to mobilize the scholars of the [Islamic] nation to clarify the truth of the conflict and to clarify the legitimacy and sanctity of our battle and the obligation of jihad to defend our Al-Aqsa and our holy land, far from the sectarian discourses that divide the nation.
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