Military expert Major General Fayez Al-Duwairi said that the scenes of the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), in Rafah (southern Gaza Strip) spoiled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “victory speech” on the anniversary of October 7.
Al-Duwairi explained to Al-Jazeera that the Qassam scenes in the Tannour neighborhood, east of Rafah, represent “an answer to Netanyahu’s arrogance and superiority, which he began to lose yesterday evening, Tuesday,” in reference to the Iranian attack on Israel and the Israeli army’s losses in southern Lebanon.
He pointed out that Netanyahu was preparing a “victory speech on the one-year anniversary of the Al-Aqsa flood,” but the scenes of targeting Israeli vehicles, including two troop carriers east of Rafah, carried several messages.
The military expert said that among those messages was that the Rafah Brigade of the Al-Qassam Brigades “is still fighting and has not been disbanded as Israel claims.”
Tel Aviv Tribune broadcast exclusive scenes from the battles between the Al-Qassam Brigades and the occupation army east of the city of Rafah, which included the targeting of 4 military vehicles with “Al-Yassin 105” anti-armor shells.
According to Al-Duwairi, the new scenes are a message to the Israeli interior that “resistance still exists after a year, despite all the massacres and atrocities the occupation army did.” He wondered, “If this were the case in besieged Gaza, what would the situation be on the northern front?”
The video – according to the military expert – carried a message to Hezbollah, saying: “You have 8 times the human power of what Al-Qassam has, and 9 times of what Al-Qassam has militarily, so how long can you withstand after the resistance has held out in Gaza for a year?”
The Al-Qassam Brigades in Gaza have been documenting their operations against the occupation army forces and vehicles on various fronts of combat since the start of the Israeli ground operation on October 27, and many details of the operations carried out against the occupation forces appeared in the video clips.
It also carried out successful ambushes against the occupation army, inflicting heavy human losses on it, in addition to destroying and damaging hundreds of military vehicles.