The American newspaper "Wall Street Journal" claimed on Sunday that security officials contributed to planning the surprise attack launched by the Islamic Resistance Movement "Hamas" on Saturday on the Israeli occupation forces, and gave the green light for the attack at a meeting held in Beirut last Monday, according to senior members of Hamas. And Hezbollah.

According to the newspaper, these people said that Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officers had worked with Hamas since last August to plan air, land and sea incursions - the most significant violation of Israel's borders since the 1973 Ramadan War.

The newspaper claims that they added that the details of the operation were refined during several meetings in Beirut “attended by officers from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and representatives of four armed groups supported by Iran, including Hamas, which controls power in Gaza, and Hezbollah, a Shiite armed group and faction.” politician in Lebanon.

It is noteworthy that US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said on Sunday that the US administration had not seen any evidence of Tehran’s involvement in the sudden Hamas attack, and in an interview with CNN broadcast on Sunday, Blinken said: “We have not yet seen evidence that Iran directed this attack.” "Or she was behind it, but there is definitely a long relationship."

A US official involved in the alleged meetings told the Wall Street Journal: “We do not have any information at this time to confirm this account.”

In response to a question about the alleged meetings in Beirut, Mahmoud Mardawi, a senior Hamas official, said that the movement planned the attacks on its own, explaining, “This is a Palestinian and Hamas decision.”

The Wall Street Journal quotes a spokesman for Iran's mission to the United Nations as saying that the Islamic Republic supports Gaza's actions but does not direct them.

The spokesman said: “The decisions taken by the Palestinian resistance are completely independent and unshakably consistent with the legitimate interests of the Palestinian people... We are not concerned with the Palestinian response, as it is taken by Palestine itself only.”

A direct Iranian role would bring Tehran's long-standing conflict with Israel out of the shadows, increasing the risk of a broader conflict in the Middle East. Senior Israeli security officials vowed to attack the Iranian leadership if it was proven that Tehran was responsible for the killing of Israelis.

The newspaper claims that the broader plan of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard is to create a multi-front threat that can strangle Israel from all sides - Hezbollah and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in the north and Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas in Gaza and the West Bank.

The Israeli occupation government claimed that at least 700 Israelis were killed in the attack, and Saturday's attack "shattered the country's aura of invincibility, leaving Israelis wondering how their vaunted security forces could allow this to happen," according to the newspaper.

Israel blamed Iran, saying it was behind the attacks, albeit indirectly. “We know that there were meetings in Syria and Lebanon with other leaders of the terrorist armies surrounding Israel, so it is easy to understand that they tried to coordinate,” Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, said on Sunday.

Hamas publicly acknowledges that it receives support from Iran, and Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi spoke on Sunday with the leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, Ziad al-Nakhalah, and the head of the Hamas movement, Ismail Haniyeh.

Senior members of Hamas and Hezbollah said that Iran has put aside other regional conflicts, such as its open conflict with Saudi Arabia in Yemen, to devote external resources to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard to coordinate, finance and arm anti-Israel militias, including Hamas and Hezbollah, according to the newspaper’s claim.

The United States and Israel have designated Hamas and Hezbollah as terrorist organizations.

The newspaper says, “The aim of the strike was to strike Israel while it appeared distracted by internal political divisions around the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.” Senior members of Hamas and Hezbollah said that the attack was also aimed at disrupting the accelerating talks brokered by the United States to normalize relations between the kingdom. Saudi Arabia and Israel, which Iran considers a threat.”

The newspaper points out that based on the peace agreements with Egypt and Jordan, expanding Israeli relations with the Arab Gulf states could create a chain of US allies linking three major choke points for global trade - the Suez Canal, the Strait of Hormuz, and the Bab el-Mandab, which connects the Red Sea.