An Israeli war strategy is matched by the absence of a Palestinian resistance strategy

First of all, we have mercy on the martyr Khader Adnan, who asked for martyrdom and obtained it after he registered a testimony of pride for every Palestinian and not only for the Islamic Jihad movement, through his rejection of the policy of administrative detention and exposing the terrorist practices of the enemy in the occupation prisons, but what is going on in terms of fears of escalation and war between the Zionist entity and the Jihad movement The Islamist expresses the dangerous slide into which the Palestinian liberation movement, with all its factions, falls, which requires stopping and exposing its dangers.

It is well known that the almost daily killings and assassinations of Palestinians carried out by the enemy in and outside detention centers and throughout the country and outside the country come within the context of the policy and strategy of the occupying state and are not an act or achievement of this or that Zionist party, but often the response to them is not in The context of a national strategy, but rather a partisan or regional response, as if the battle is between the occupying state and the Fatah movement, or between it and the Jihad movement, or Hamas, or the Popular Front, etc., and sometimes the battle appears as if it is between the enemy state and the Gaza Strip, while the West Bank stands by and in the recent period things slide into confrontation and war in the West Bank. While Gaza stands on the sidelines, and even within the West Bank, it seems that the occupation on the one hand and the internal division on the other reinforces the fears that we wrote about and warned about in a previous article under the title (Beware of Fragmentation of the Resistance Squares), where the group (The Lions' Den) emerged in Nablus, as did the (Brigade Jenin) in the city of Jenin, and both groups announced themselves through the video media and in a showy manner, while the other cities remained semi-static, which led to the occupation army excluding both groups and the liquidation of the majority of its members.

When Israel assassinated the leader, Abu Ali Mustafa, in his office on August 27, 2001, the Popular Front responded by assassinating the Israeli Minister of Tourism, Rehavam Zeevi, and the operation led to the arrest of the leaders of the Popular Front in the West Bank, headed by Ahmed Saadat, by the Palestinian Authority, so that Israel would not assassinate them. Then they were arrested by Inside the prisons of the authority by the occupation army, and the consequent mutual accusations between the authority and the Popular Front, and the tension of relations that is still to this day.

After the division and Hamas' takeover of the Gaza Strip, things seemed as if the war was between Israel and the Gaza Strip. In light of the Palestinian Authority's commitment to the peace process, Israel launched several wars against the Strip, sometimes because of a revelation, sometimes for no reason, and at other times at the initiative of one of the factions in the Strip.

On December 27, 2008, Israel launched a war on Gaza, where it dropped nearly one million kilograms of explosives on the Strip, and more than (4,100) homes were completely demolished, and (17,000) partially. Operation “Cast Lead” led to the death of more than 1,436 Palestinians, including about 410 children, 104 women, and about 100 elderly people, and more than 5,400 others, half of them children, were wounded. The Israeli authorities admitted that 13 Israelis, including 10 soldiers, were killed and 300 others were injured.

On the fourteenth of November 2012, Israel assassinated the Qassami commander, Ahmed al-Ja’bari, and as a result, major confrontations or war broke out. The resistance called it the “Battle of the Siege Stones.” It lasted for eight days, in which all the Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip participated. During the days of the war, 155 missiles hit Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and other cities inside occupied Palestine, and in return, Israel responded, employing all its military power, causing destruction and destruction to the infrastructure and housing in the Strip, and 191 martyrs and about 1,400 were wounded in the war, while the Israelis suffered 5 dead and a number of wounded, and it ended The war is a truce under Egyptian and international auspices.

On July 7, 2014, Israel launched its third war on the Gaza Strip, calling it "Protective Edge", while the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) called it "The Consumed Storm".
Over the course of "51 days," the Gaza Strip was subjected to approximately 60,664 air, land and sea raids, killing 2,322 Palestinians and wounding about 11,000, according to statistics issued by the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
On the other hand, official Israeli data revealed that 68 of its soldiers and 4 civilians were killed, in addition to one foreign worker, and 2,522 Israelis were wounded (according to a statistic prepared by the Ministry of Works and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in cooperation with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). ), the number of completely demolished housing units amounted to 12 thousand units, while the number of partially demolished units reached 160 thousand units, of which 6600 units were unfit for habitation).

At the dawn of November 11, 2019, Israel targeted the leader of the Islamic Jihad, Bahaa Abu al-Atta, where he was martyred along with his wife. At the same time, an attempt was made to assassinate the leader of the Jihadi al-Ajouri in his house in Damascus, and his son was martyred. The presence of a joint operations room, and the air raids resulted in the death of 34 Palestinians and the wounding of more than 100 others.

In the year 2021, the battle of the "Jerusalem Sword" broke out, which Israel called "the guardian of the walls". In response to the settlers' seizure of the homes of Jerusalemites in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood and the Israeli forces' storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque, the Palestinian resistance launched more than 4,000 rockets at towns and cities in Israel, and the confrontation resulted in about 250 Palestinian martyrs and more than 5,000 wounded, and Israel bombed several residential towers, and Israel announced the destruction of about 100 kilometers of tunnels in Gaza. On the Israeli side, 12 Israelis were killed and about 330 others were injured, according to Israeli sources.

The cease-fire was achieved after mediation, movements and international pressure.

On August 5, 2022, Israel assassinated the commander of the northern region of the Al-Quds Brigades (the military arm of the Islamic Jihad movement) in Gaza, and the Islamic Jihad movement responded with an operation it called "United Squares", during which it fired hundreds of missiles at Israeli towns and cities, and said in a statement that it was an operation Joint with the National Resistance Brigades, the Mujahideen Brigades, and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades (the military wing of Fatah movement). The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip reported that the number of martyrs in this war reached 24, including 6 children, while 203 were wounded.

In all previous confrontations, there was no Palestinian strategy to respond, and the Palestinian losses far exceeded the losses of the occupation. Nevertheless, the parties were announcing victories and achievements. Will the response of the Islamic Jihad movement and the resistance factions be different this time and benefit from past experiences?

Since its inception in 1987 and its separation from the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamic Jihad Movement has proven that it is a Palestinian national movement that fights for freedom and independence and does not seek power or prestige. If it has Islamic orientations, this does not detract from its patriotism, as there is no conflict between patriotism and Islam, as the vast majority of Palestinians are Muslims. There is room for everyone in the country.

We hope that the Islamic Jihad’s response to the assassination of Khader Adnan, who was not the only one who was martyred in the occupation prisons and at the hands of the occupation army and its settlers throughout the land of Palestine, will be a rational national response by working on formulating a national strategy to deal with the Zionist strategy of war and aggression in the West Bank, Jerusalem and all. Palestine, within the framework of a comprehensive national strategy, and that its response is not limited to firing rockets from Gaza, as the results of the rocket war were devastating to the Gaza Strip without causing significant damage to the enemy, but rather the enemy used them to reinforce division. He drew attention to what was happening in the West Bank and Jerusalem.

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