Military and strategic expert, Major General Mohammed Al-Samadi, believes that the Israeli occupation’s opening of the West Bank front opens the gates of hell on Israel, and he expects the return of martyrdom operations to the West Bank and perhaps to the lands of 1948.
He described the operation that took place in the city of Hebron in the southern West Bank, which led to the killing of 3 Israeli police officers, as deadly professionalism and a qualitative development, given the capabilities and capacities available to the resistance, in addition to the Israeli surveillance, checkpoints, cameras and drones.
Israeli police officers were killed Sunday morning in an armed attack on a car at the Tarqumiya checkpoint west of Hebron. The Israeli army said that the three dead were security forces and police officers who were on duty, adding that the car used in the attack was found empty after the perpetrators were able to withdraw.
In an analysis of the military scene in the West Bank, Major General Al-Samadi expected that resistance operations in the West Bank would escalate, through direct targeting of the occupation forces and through martyrdom operations and explosive devices.
He said that the resistance operations would be more profound if they moved to the Palestinian territories occupied in 1948, as that would be a turning point and a nightmare that would shake Israeli security. He did not rule out that the martyrdom operations would extend to the territories of 1948.
He considered that what indicates that this will happen are the massacres committed by Israel in the West Bank, including killing, torture, arrests, seizing property, burning homes, in addition to the attacks on Al-Aqsa Mosque and its sanctity.
Needs greater than capabilities
He said that the Israeli army does not have an effective strategy, as evidenced by the fact that the Hebron operation came amid a major Israeli security alert in the region, as the occupation forces tightened their siege on the governorate, after two Palestinians carried out a double operation in the Gush Etzion settlement complex north of Hebron at dawn yesterday, Saturday, which led to the injury of 3 Israelis, including a senior officer.
However, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is igniting the fires and opening many fronts without an effective strategy, and he is unable to decide. The military and strategic expert said that Israel’s security needs are greater than its capabilities, and it is protecting from within, not from without.
Despite the occupation’s promotion that it has an invincible army and that its security system is tight and relies on technical and technological matters, such as drones, wireless monitoring, agents and spies, the resistance – adds Major General Al-Samadi – is capable of penetrating all of that, and can turn into a very annoying force for the Israeli security system.
The occupation army began its extensive operation in the West Bank five days ago under heavy air force cover, and the Israeli media described the attack as the largest of its kind since Operation Defensive Shield in 2002.
