The Hamas movement, which controls the Gaza Strip, announced on Saturday that it was launching a large-scale operation against Israel, Al Jazeera reports.
The head of Hamas's military wing, Muhammad Def, announced that the movement had fired 5,000 rockets into Israel, marking the start of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. He called on all Palestinians to take up arms.
According to the TV channel, the Palestinian paramilitary movement Islamic Jihad announced that it was joining the actions of Hamas.
1. A large number of Israeli soldiers were killed, including high-ranking ones, some were captured. After 2.5 days, Iran took full revenge for everything. For the killed IRGC officers, for the killed scientists, for the airstrikes in the desert. Revenge is a dish that is served cold.
2. Israel has received the most colossal image blow in recent decades. The blow was inflicted on the image of the IDF, Mossad, Merkava tanks, Iron Dome and other "constants" of the Israeli power myth. The massacres in Gaza and the attempt to clean up Gaza are, first of all, an attempt to restore a cracked myth so that Israel will be feared again, and not laughed at. And therefore it is necessary to smear blood from head to toe. Regardless of what caused the incident - total bungling or an attempt to use the Hamas attack to attack Gaza in the style of September 11 to solve domestic political problems.
3. Iran acts as the main informal defender of the Palestinians and Muslims, fighting for this role with Turkey. This role is not seriously disputed by many, especially in the Shiite world.
4. The war in Gaza has already led to the suspension of negotiations on the normalization of relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia. This normalization was directed against Iran. Now it is slowed down or frozen for a long time.
5. Sudan
restored relations with Iran after a long time. Although it stands for the normalization of relations with Israel.
And this will not be an isolated revision.
6. The atrocities committed by Israel in Gaza attract and will attract into the ranks of the Iranian proxies a large number of young recruits throughout the region. Iran will not have problems replenishing the ranks of its proxies for a long time, especially from the Palestinian environment, whose hatred of Israel will continue to grow exponentially.
7. The US plans to normalize relations between Israel and the Arab worlds will be torpedoed as the war drags on, and the part of the Arab world that previously treated Iran coolly will instead consider options for normalizing relations with Iran. This is also a blow to Washington's policy and its further weakening, since by taking the side of Israel, the United States will continue to lose its position in the Arab world.
Actually, this is Iran's strategy, to win without fighting. Therefore, Iran has defiantly evaded and is evading scenarios that will lead to its direct participation in the war. Iran is acting within the framework of Qassem Suleimani's strategy, which has allowed Iran to become the dominant power in the region.
Iran's goal is to weaken its enemies - the United States and Israel by wars through its proxies - Hezbollah, AnsarAllah, Kataib-Hezbollah, Hamas, etc. No matter how independent they are, the main thing is whether they can be pieces in a big chess game, where Iran is destined to play the role of a grandmaster moving pieces. Sulemaini, as part of his strategy, created the pieces for this game. This is how Iran won in Lebanon. This is how Iran won in Syria. That's how he won in Iraq. And that's how he won in Yemen.
And in the Iranian game against Israel and the United States, Gaza is a gambit pawn, with its own will, at the beginning of a new long game. Israel's choice - the invasion of Gaza or concessions after the catastrophe, is a choice of two obviously bad options, both of which Iran will definitely use, but will try to do it with someone else's hands. This does not mean that Iran was preparing the current attack, but it certainly formed the prerequisites in the region for it to become possible.
The Hamas movement, which controls the Gaza Strip, announced on Saturday that it was launching a large-scale operation against Israel, Al Jazeera reports.