By Ali Ghorban Bagheri
The ‘Al-Aqsa Storm’ operation was the result of the Palestinian nation’s indomitable resistance against the Israeli occupation and decades of fighting the enemy on different fronts, says an analyst.
In an interview with the Press TV website, Dr. Mohammed Albohaisi, the head of the Iranian-Palestinian Friendship Association, discussed the reasons, goals, and consequences of the surprise operation.
The Gaza-based Palestinian resistance movement Hamas launched an unprecedented military operation dubbed Al-Aqsa Storm, also known as ‘Al-Aqsa Flood’, taking the regime by complete surprise.
More than 1,000 Israeli soldiers and settlers have been killed in the operation that continues, with hundreds of others, including senior Israeli military officials, held as war prisoners in Gaza.
In a knee-jerk reaction, the Israeli regime launched an indiscriminate bombing of the Gaza Strip, targeting civilian areas and killing more than 900 Palestinians, including women and children.
Albohaisi said the Hamas operation is the result of daily battles in the occupied West Bank, in the flashpoint city of Jenin and other occupied areas, and due to repeated attacks on Al-Aqsa Mosque by illegal Israeli settlers with the support of the Israeli military apparatus.
“The desecration of Al-Aqsa Mosque, brutal attacks on Palestinians, their murder and captivity, displacement and destruction of houses with the aim of building settlements and annexing the Palestinian lands to the occupied lands,” he said, referring to why Hamas launched the operation.
He slammed the Oslo Agreement and its actors and the project of “normalizing” ties with the Israeli regime, which he noted was a “big conspiracy” against the Palestinian cause.
Albohaisi emphasized that all these cases and the task of resisting the usurper and occupier prompted the Palestinian resistance to carry out such an operation at such a big scale and in a surprising manner, which he said demonstrated that the enemy is “fragile and shaky.”
The commentator noted that the Palestinian resistance knows that its allies in the axis of resistance are a part of this important battle against the apartheid regime and are firmly united.
The head of the Iranian-Palestinian Friendship Association said the Al-Aqsa Storm operation is a “turning point” in the path of fulfilling the divine promise and strengthening the support for the axis of resistance until the eradication of this illegitimate regime.
On how long the war will last, he said the Israeli military has already been defeated and the Zionist entity has suffered a “great mental blow and rupture” that cannot heal.
Meanwhile, on Wednesday, Israel launched a fresh round of airstrikes on the besieged Gaza Strip, Palestinian news agency WAFA reported, with warplanes hitting residential apartments and the port.
In another development on Wednesday, Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement said it fired missiles at the occupied territories in a retaliatory strike after three of its members were martyred by Israeli forces in southern Lebanon.
