12/27/2023–|Last updated: 12/27/202305:33 PM (Mecca time)
Today, Wednesday, the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) denied the validity of what was stated by the spokesman of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard regarding the motives of the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation, stressing that it came in response to the occupation and its continued aggression against the Palestinian people.
Hamas said, in a statement, that it had repeatedly emphasized the motives and reasons for Operation “Al-Aqsa Flood,” most notably the dangers threatening the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, and stressed that “all Palestinian resistance actions come in response to the presence of the occupation and its continued aggression against the Palestinian people and their sanctities.”
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard spokesman, Ramadan Sharif, said earlier today that the attack launched by the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades on October 7th of last year on Israeli settlements and military headquarters was one of the revenge operations for the assassination of the former Iranian Quds Force commander, Qasem Soleimani.
The Iranian official warned Israel of the possibility of a second “October 7” in response to the killing of Brigadier General in the Revolutionary Guard, Radhi Mousavi, who was killed in an Israeli air strike that targeted the Sayyida Zeinab suburb of the Syrian capital, Damascus.
The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military arm of the Hamas movement, launched an attack on settlements and military barracks belonging to the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip on October 7, which led to the deaths of 1,200 Israelis, according to Israeli sources, and the detention of more than 200 prisoners.
Israel subsequently launched a devastating war on the besieged Gaza Strip, which led to the death of more than 20,000 people, most of them women and children, and widespread destruction of infrastructure and a humanitarian catastrophe, according to the United Nations.