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Sun 08 Oct 2023 9:39 am - Jerusalem Time
Israel bears responsibility for Al-Aqsa Flood operation
We said more than once that for every action there is a reaction equal in amount and opposite in direction, but the occupying state did not pay any attention to this law and believed that by possessing the power it could subjugate the Palestinian people and liquidate their national cause under what it calls resolving the conflict in its favor, and that if the Palestinian people do not submit by force, then with more force.
Based on this, the current occupation government, which is the most right-wing, extremist, and racist in the history of previous governments, has continued its acts of killing, assassinations, and incursions into areas, including Area A, which is subject to the Palestinian National Authority, in addition to the crimes of the armed forces and settlers, and the incursions into Al-Aqsa Mosque as part of attempts to divide it spatially after its success. In dividing it temporally, in addition to the orgies of Ben Gvir and Smotrich, the statements of the Israeli Prime Minister, and his presentation at the United Nations of a map in which the name of the Palestinians and the occupied Palestinian territories did not appear, he replaced them with Israel in an act of arrogance.
This is in addition to the restrictions imposed on citizens at checkpoints, storming homes, barbaric settler attacks that affected people, trees, and stones, Ben Gvir’s procedures and decisions against male and female prisoners, and attempts to undermine their steadfastness.
All of this led to what we have been seeing since yesterday morning, the announcement of the Palestinian resistance in the Gaza Strip through Muhammad al-Deif, commander of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades affiliated with the Hamas movement, about the launch of Operation “Al-Aqsa Flood” in response to what the herds of settlers and the organizations of the so-called “Temple Mount” wreaked inside the Temple Mount( Al-Qudsi Al-Sharif), especially on Jewish holidays, which are considered a “rehearsal” and a prelude to attempts to seize the first of the two ( qiblahs) prayers directions, the second of the two mosques, the third of the Two Holy Mosques, and the site from which the Prophet Muhammad rise to heaven, may God bless him and grant him peace.
This large-scale operation also came as a victory for the detainees movement and for our people in Jerusalem and the West Bank who are exposed to the scourges of the occupation, as well as to thwart the occupation’s plans to resolve the conflict in its favor, and to tell the extremists in Netanyahu’s government that the Palestinian people will not surrender and will not submit, and that the occupying state must acknowledge its inalienable national rights to Return, self-determination, and establishment of an independent state with Jerusalem (Al-Quds Al-Sharif) as its capital.
The occupying state is the one who bears responsibility for this operation. Its crimes, violations, neglect of the Palestinian people and their national rights, and bragging about its military power are what led to the massive operation, for which it will pay a heavy price.
The United States of America, through its support for the occupying state and preventing it from being held accountable for what it commits against the Palestinian people, and providing it with all types of weapons that it uses against Palestinian citizens, is also the one who bears responsibility for what is happening now.
The international community, which deals with two standards, led by the colonial West, also bears responsibility, not the Palestinian people or the resistance that announced the start of the broad operation. The operation came as a result of depriving our people of their national rights for more than 76 years, and even conspiring against these rights, but no right is lost that has demands behind it.
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Israel bears responsibility for Al-Aqsa Flood operation