In his first speech after Al-Aqsa Flood, Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah stated that the support front from Lebanon operates according to two criteria: one related to the scale of the enemy’s attacks, and the other concerning the support needed to prevent the breaking of the resistance in Gaza. The leader of Ansarallah, Sayyed Abdulmalik Al-Houthi, was quick to announce that Yemen’s involvement in the battle aims to stop the aggression and lift the siege on Gaza. Both parties, in all subsequent statements issued by their respective war media, emphasized key phrases: supporting Gaza, backing its resistance, and striving to stop the aggression and lift the siege.
Later, Nasrallah and Al-Houthi developed their stance in several speeches, linked to various events, most importantly, the coordination between the forces of the Axis of Resistance, which took a different form and settled on mechanisms that included all fronts, including Gaza itself. It won’t be long before some of the daily operational coordination, both politically and on the ground, between the parties of the Axis is revealed, from the center in Iran, passing through Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Lebanon, and reaching Gaza and the rest of Palestine.
Over the past nine months, the resistance in Gaza has provided one proof after another of its steadfastness, patience, and effectiveness, supplying allies with sufficient information about its conditions until the moment when the leaders of the Axis realized that the idea of crushing the resistance in Gaza was behind everyone. The focus then shifted to the support mechanism that benefits the resistance in Gaza from two aspects: the first involves the attrition of the enemy and pushing it to stop the war, and the second concerns the position of the resistance in the ongoing negotiations to stop the war, especially since the political pressures on the resistance are immense, involving Palestinians, Arabs, and the American and “israeli” enemies.
The recent weeks have shown that Benjamin Netanyahu’s government does not intend to proceed with a deal to end the war, and its head openly rejected a settlement he said achieves Hamas’s goals. He then engaged in a new maneuver that became more tied to the event of the American election, and his government members no longer hide their bet on the fall of Joe Biden’s administration, relying on Donald Trump’s victory. They are now acting on the basis of continuing the war until these elections, with “israeli” Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir going so far as to reveal the big secret by stating that agreeing to the proposed deal would be a stab in Trump’s back.
Alongside the constant question about the most beneficial form of support for Gaza and its resistance, regional and international items were added to the Axis of Resistance’s agenda, including how to deal with the American event. Axis leaders are acting on the basis that there is no point in waiting for any change in the positions of the official Arab system, as Saudi Arabia and the UAE show readiness to take revenge on Yemen, while Jordan cooperates with the Ramallah [Palestinian] Authority and its Security Forces in plans to suppress the resistance in the West Bank, and everyone, under Egypt’s patronage, is involved in searching for an alternative authority to Hamas in Gaza, despite all being aware that achieving this would lead to a Palestinian-Palestinian civil strife that the enemy wants to be the first line in the “Day After” program.
Hezbollah and Ansarallah were very frank when they said from the early days of the war that breaking the resistance in Gaza is forbidden.
All this necessitated reconsidering the field programs of the resistance forces, imposing changes that can be implemented according to an arrangement that does not contradict the specificity of each party in the Axis of Resistance, without necessarily leading to a wide-scale war.
The resistance in Gaza has started transitioning from confronting the infiltration operations carried out by occupation forces to striking the gathering centers of these forces across the Strip. In the past two weeks, they have provided models of this new pattern, reflecting continued reconnaissance capabilities and ambush setups, including planting explosives and carrying out precise attacks by commando groups or by shelling with various projectiles. Additionally, a symbolic step in the battle involves continuing to launch rocket salvos towards the settlements of the envelope.
On the eastern front, the Iraqis are involved in a special cooperation program with Ansarallah to carry out operations targeting vital enemy sites at multiple points within the entity, from Haifa in the north to “Eilat” in the far south, sending messages that targeting American bases is possible at any moment. The qualitative Ansarallah operation of bombing “Tel Aviv” at dawn yesterday indicated it was not random, nor a “one-time thing,” but was prepared with precise calculations, including how to choose from the abundant target bank available to the Axis of Resistance. It is enough to note that what Hezbollah presented about sensitive sites in the enemy entity represents a “natural yield” in the resistance units’ papers, where there is no problem named targets in the entity.
In Lebanon, the enemy entity may still doubt what Hezbollah’s Secretary-General meant in his last speech, so the bombing of new settlements came as a first message, simply stating that the resistance in Lebanon, when it announces its readiness to strike new civilian centers, it understands that the likelihood of the enemy responding with bigger strikes is possible and serious. Accordingly, the resistance has prepared itself for a counter-response targeting new centers with greater force. If the new bombing warrants a new “israeli” response, the resistance in Lebanon is saying, in advance, that it is ready to go far in this duel, up to a comprehensive war.
Between the bombing of “Tel Aviv” and the bombing of new settlements in the north, there is a very thick thread extending to Gaza, where the enemy first, and Gaza’s resistance second, know that the Axis of Resistance bears its responsibility not only in supporting Gaza but in doing more to serve the primary goal, which is stopping the aggression in all its forms. The resistance clearly stated that the cessation of war becomes effective after an announcement issued exclusively by the resistance in Palestine.
Yesterday, the Al-Aqsa Flood battle entered a new phase. According to simple field calculations, what happened in “Tel Aviv” and the new [targeted] settlements indicates the resistance forces’ ability to carry out operations that the enemy cannot prevent. Everyone should act on the basis that what the enemy could not achieve after nine months of killing and destruction will not be achieved in specific operations and a harsh starvation war aimed at the people of Gaza’s surrender. As for the friends of the resistance who “believe” that it has become necessary to prepare a political program for the next day, they must move from their current square to a very clear square, requiring a political program to support the option of resistance. Any talk about the cost of resistance serves the enemy’s interest and will not help revive all the illusions of negotiation, reconciliation, and political solutions… For what remains of the entity’s lifespan is much less than many imagine.
Ibrahim Al-Amin