Al-Aqsa Flood… A battle that came to confirm that the stream has reached its peak, the manipulation of the Palestinian cause has reached its limit, and to prove to the whole world that Al-Quds and Al-Aqsa have men who do not satisfy humiliation and disgrace, and that the cells are not the fate of our prisoners. Our fighters drew their swords and penetrated all the impossible equations after the aggression and criminality of the occupation exceeded all borders, and they achieved a new history in the pages of pride and honor through heroic battles that humiliated the enemy army and left their nose in the dust, and we are today, after a year of the battle, facing a historical and pivotal stage in the fate of the conflict with this enemy, as the entire zionist project is today at stake and the liberation of Palestine is just around the corner.
Clear Conquest
At 6:25 AM on Saturday, the 7th from October, 2023, the implementation of a coordinated and simultaneous attack between all specialties and weapons of the Al-Qassam Brigades by land, sea, and air at more than 50 sites belonging to the Gaza and southern region divisions of the occupation army under an intense cover of rockets targeting military sites, zionist colonies, and enemy command and control systems. The number of missiles in the first strike reached 5,500 rockets and shells, which formed, with their density and accuracy, a situation of confusion for the enemy’s security services, which failed objectively, preventing them from having any reaction for several hours until they partially absorbed what was happening on the ground. This is what our fighters observed during their storming of the zionist military sites that were struck by the Al-Qassam Brigades, where they found the occupation soldiers hiding and evident expressions on their faces, so they took them hostage and prisoner without any resistance in numerous sites.
The Chief of Staff Mohammed Al-Deif “Abu Khaled” came out to us in brief words that summarized the scene and announced the start of the operation of Al-Aqsa Flood, in response to the zionist attacks and crimes against Al-Aqsa and our people, and a natural response to confront the zionist plans to settle the Palestinian issue; explaining that the Al-Qassam leadership decided to put an end to all these crimes, and stressing that the time where the enemy can rampage with impunity has come to an end.
The Al-Qassami confrontations began with intense firing of Al-Qassami artillery weapons towards occupation army sites and the centers of major zionist cities, and this was accompanied by an attack of suicide drones towards enemy sites and the dropping of shells from quadcopters towards the front observation towers and the vehicles lying on the temporary line east of the Strip. Sniper fire damaged the surveillance cameras along the temporary line, after which the engineering crews moved to fill the gaps that enabled the fighters and their vehicles to penetrate the enemy’s defense lines, and then the fighters’ convoys penetrated the gaps to destroy the enemy’s vehicles and break the lines of defense around the enemy’s positions and their colonies to reach their predetermined targets, which left their soldiers between dead and wounded.
The enemy’s defenses fell around Gaza, and their army and wall collapsed, which always boasted of its construction to besiege the Strip. The entire thought of security fell, when the feet of the fighters of Al-Qassam, the wheels of SUVs, and the “Falcon” squadron flew over it amid a scene that emphasized the efficiency of planning, the ingenuity of implementation, and excellence in hiding any evidence of attack from the slouching enemy intelligence services. 4,500 fighters participated in this operation (3,000 for maneuver operations and 1,500 for support and support operations).
In less than two hours, the fighters succeeded in breaking the temporary wall and raiding all 15 sites of the enemy divisions’ military sites, as well as attacking 10 military intervention points and the protection factions located in 22 colonies. They managed to destroy the enemy divisions and control the “Ra’im” military base, which was the pride of the zionist army, in addition to controlling the colonies of the [Gaza] envelope and killing and capturing hundreds of enemy officers, soldiers, and usurpers. Then developing the attack towards targets outside the division in the southern region, and boats loaded with Al-Qassami naval commando fighters were able to carry out a successful landing operation on the shores of southern “Ashkelon” and controlled several areas, and the enemy suffered heavy loss of life.
The zionist security and military system failed miserably, and all their estimates failed. Hours and days passed since the Al-Qassam Brigades arrived and wandered inside the colonies adjacent to the Gaza Strip, and their missiles bombed dozens of targets in the zionist depth, before the army awoke to its shock and decided to start a military ground operation inside the Strip after meetings and Western support at the political and military levels, trying to restore the image of the army and confidence through the theory of deterrence, which crashed Saturday morning at the hands of the fighters of Al-Qassam who proved that this entity is weaker than a spider’s web.
Heroic operations and immortal battles led by the fighters of Al-Qassam and the Palestinian resistance factions ensued after the army decided to enter the Gaza Strip on October 27th, 20 days after the great attack, where enemy vehicles penetrated after a series of violent raids and intense artillery shelling that targeted neighborhoods and towns north, central, and south of the Strip, to be surprised again by the defensive arsenal of the resistance factions and realize that it pushed its soldiers to death and sunk them in the mud of Gaza.
The Al-Qassam Brigades imposed their control over the battle and recorded victories at all levels through various military tactics at the media, military, and security levels, and through the introduction of new weapons in the fighting announced during the battle, where the Al-Qassam fighters were able to lure soldiers and vehicles to point-blank and target and destroy 1,592 zionist military vehicles that varied between tanks, zionist troop carriers, and military bulldozers, in addition to targeting the headquarters, gatherings, and soldier defenses. The battle, as the enemy claimed, resulted in the killing of 726 zionist officers and soldiers, while our fighters continue to write history and strike the zionist forces penetrated and positioned in several axes of the Gaza Strip and forcing them to retreat to deprive them from this blessed land.
Qualitative Weapons and Continuous Preparation
The Al-Qassam Brigades announced the introduction of new weapons during the battle to serve to confront this zionist army, which is supported by all the forces of evil in the world, the most prominent of which were the locally-made Al-Yassin 105 anti-armor shells and “TBG” anti-fortification shells, through which the fighters were able to impose field objectives that armies could not succeed to achieve, surprised the enemy, and destroyed its vehicles, which have always been hailed by the strength of their maneuvering and heavy armor.
In a qualitative development, the Al-Qassam Brigades unveiled the “Falcon” squadron, one of the military units that participated in the major attack, where paratroopers of the Al-Qassam Brigades were able to penetrate the temporary wall and fly their gliders over the colonies of the [Gaza] envelope in a scene that surprised the friend before the enemy, in addition to the locally-made “Rajoom” short-range rocket system, which was used to carry out the opening strike as cover fire for the crossing of our fighters into our occupied territories. The Brigades also announced for the first time during the battle the locally-made “Al-Asif” guided-torpedo, with which they targeted a number of hostile naval targets off the coast of the Gaza Strip.
Al-Qassam published a video titled “Our preparation is continuing;” A group of fighters of Al-Qassam appears in one of the military manufacturing workshops, and they are making a large number of anti-armor “guerrilla action” devices, with which our fighters carried out several operations since the start of the battle, and the Al-Qassam Brigades continue to hide lots of methods and weapons in their possession capable of surprising the enemy and inflicting heavy losses in their ranks despite the technological capabilities.
From the first day, the Al-Qassam Brigades announced that dozens of officer and soldier prisoners were in their grip and they were secured in safe places in the resistance tunnels, and to the zionist enemy, if he wanted to capture them alive, they must submit to the conditions of the resistance and compensate it for their release as part of a conditional deal and a stoppage of their war on Gaza. It also announced its readiness to release foreign nationals, but the enemy obstructed this and continued to his arrogance, thinking that he could recover the prisoners by force, but he failed miserably to achieve this in the face of the steadfastness of the resistance and the administration of the Al-Qassam leadership for this issue. As Abu Obeida, the military spokesman for the Al-Qassam Brigades, later announced that in the grip of the resistance were about 250 prisoners, and a number of them were later killed as a result of the barbaric zionist bombing of the Strip.
On November 24th, 2023, Al-Qassam Brigades announced the achievement of a humanitarian truce mediated by Egypt and Qatar for 4 days, which was extended for two additional days, under which 50 zionist women and children under the age of 19 were released, about 150 Palestinian women and children prisoners were released, and aid convoys of relief, medical supplies, and fuel entered all areas of the Gaza Strip.
After the expiration of the truce period, the enemy resumed fighting and bombing without caring for the lives of prisoners who were still in the grip of the resistance, and they were deliberately killed in a desperate attempt to get rid of this issue and its objectives, which they know well. This is shown with the announcement of the Al-Qassam Brigades in a row of the killing of many of their prisoners by barbaric bombing, panic, and disease, but the enemy leadership, headed by Netanyahu, and after a year in the battle, refuses to return them except in coffins, and emerged their soldiers into the alleys of Gaza to also return in coffins in order to search for the remains of some of the prisoners whom were deliberately targeted and killed. They prefer this instead of an exchange deal that returns their prisoners to their parents alive.
The Al-Qassam Brigades have succeeded in uniting the resistance forces through the Joint Operations Room internally and the Axis of Resistance externally, which is what we see today from a successful management in all political and military fields of the battle that was launched for the third of the Two Holy Mosques. Today the battle of Gaza is not the battle of the Palestinian alone, but the battle of the entire Arab and Islamic nation as a whole, and this is what was translated in the field when the Lebanese Hezbollah announced on October 8th of their entry into the battle and the launch of rocket barrages and the implementation of operations from southern Lebanon within the framework of support and its continuation in this battle until the aggression against Gaza stops, and the advancement of martyrs and the leaders within the holiest and most honorable battles, most notably Hezbollah Secretary-General, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the great leader Fouad Shukr, Ali Karaki, and Ibrahim Aqil, and many others who ascended as martyrs on the path to Al-Quds.
On October 10th, the Yemeni Armed Forces announced their support for the Palestinian resistance by launching a batch of ballistic, winged missiles, and a large number of drones at different targets within the zionist entity, in addition to targeting American and British ships bound for the occupation ports, to the launch of a hypersonic “Palestine 2” missile that targeted a military target in Yaffa. The Islamic Resistance in Iraq also announced the bombing of many vital targets of the entity through drones and missiles in support of our people in Gaza and in response to the zionist massacres against them, concluding with the heroic operation carried out by Jordanian Maher Al-Jazi in support for Gaza at the Karama crossing, during which he was able to kill 3 zionist soldiers, to then ascend as a martyr on the path to Al-Quds.
West Bank Flood
As it is the flood of Gaza, the flood of the West Bank quickly began, in which the resistance operations escalated steadily, and its extent expanded and its fierceness and quality increased. The more the enemy thought that it was on the way to contain or eliminate it, the resistance and Al-Qassam cells surprised them with everything new, and the resistance formations have inflicted severe losses and damage on the enemy in zionist lives and equipment despite the difficult and complex circumstances of which are in the works, from the persecution carried out by the zionist security and intelligence services which is not all, but also the suspicious role played by the [Palestinian] Authority there.
Since the outbreak of the battle of Al-Aqsa Flood, the West Bank provided 691 martyrs and they continue to advance martyrs, and a number of fighters of Al-Qassam ascended while carrying out qualitative operations and the responding to the repeated incursions of cities and camps there, and our fighters eradicated many from the ranks of the soldiers and the usurpers, killed and injured dozens of zionist soldiers and usurpers, and restored the glories of Ayyash after the last martyrdom operation in the heart of the city of “Tel Aviv,” which is not all, and a shooting operation in the heart of “Tel Aviv” as well.
A year since the battle of Al-Aqsa Flood, our fighters did not leave their places and battlefields, in which they wrote the most wonderful epics of heroism and jihad, and humiliated in it an army that the near and far was describing as invincible, so they entered and conquered them and trampled on their dignity and the heads of their soldiers and herds of usurpers with their shoes, and the Al-Qassam Brigades continue their pledge to their Lord and their people not to leave the resistance until the liberation of every inch of occupied Palestine.
Oct 7, 2024