The Palestinian Information Center cited Basem Naim, Hamas’s politburo member, as saying that Al-Aqsa Storm of 2023 had divided the history of the region and occupied Palestine into two eras—before and after the operation—and that the battle is still ongoing.
Referring to the impact of the operation that Israel made a pretext to launch its genocidal war on Gaza, he noted that the image of the regime was tarnished and damaged globally, including in the United States.
We are on the right path in the history of Palestine, and we will continue the resistance in unison against the occupation and oppression because we have faith, the Hamas official stressed.
Naim also pointed to the ongoing Israeli bloodshed, saying the Israeli regime has martyred 75,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip—including many women, children, the elderly, and journalists—and continued its killing drive despite a so-called ceasefire.
A day earlier, on the sidelines of the funeral ceremony for the martyred leader of the Islamic Revolution and during a meeting with Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, head of the political council of Hamas, Mohammad Ismail Darvish stated that the Operation Al-Aqsa Storm marked the greatest defeat of Israel and shattered the aura of invincibility surrounding both the United States and the occupying regime.
Darvish also referred to the US–Israeli-imposed war on Iran, saying the two aggressive regimes failed not only against the Axis of Resistance but also could not realize their objective of toppling the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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