Alwaght- After Hamas’s Operation Al-Aqsa Storm, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government bore heavy pressures of the public opinion. Knowing that this heroic operation was masterminded by Hamas’s Yahya Sinwar and he was present in Gaza and will not leave and was possible to assassinate, Netanyahu and his cabinet ministers talked repeatedly about assassination of Sinwar, and they talked so much about this aim that when they assassinated the leader of Hamas, they would have met all of their demands and the Israeli society would re-embrace security and calm and the deep wound caused by the October 7 attack would be healed.
In the middle of the Israeli planning, Sinwar seems to have thought about another thing that can be labeled Operation Al-Aqsa Storm II.
In the Al-Aqsa Storm II, Sinwar once again inflicted heavy defeat on the highly skilled and well-equipped Israeli intelligence and security apparatus crossing the visible and invisible Israeli obstacles, and with his martyrdom he unleashed a destructive and lasting storm to the Israeli regime.
1. In the first Operation Al-Aqsa Storm, one of the wonderful things that took aback the Israeli leaders, Israeli society and even the global political pundits was the total failure of the Israeli intelligence system in the face of the attack that took precise and massive planning to carry out. Each of the steps taken to plan and launch the attack could have warned Israel about Hamas’s grand plan, but this did not happen. Most important thing was the surprise of this massive and supercilious apparatus at the time of attack. When the Israelis understood what happened and recovered from shock, Hamas had ended its operation and gained what it wanted and left the operation scene. This intelligence system, which is yet to recover from the consequences of first operation, received the second blow during the martyrdom of Sinwar. Israel noticed this fatal and unrepairable blow only when it could not do anything to undo it. This blow came when the Israeli forces published a drone footage showing the final seconds of the heroic and unique battle of Sinwar against Israeli army. After the footage was published, it became clear that this time, too, the Israeli intelligence suffered a defeat from Sinwar. Reports by Israeli and global media and remarks by various figures bear witness to this Israeli loss.
2. During Operation Al-Aqsa Storm I, Hamas with several hundred fighters crossed the Israeli walls and buffers and moved several hundred meters into the occupied territories and gained precious spoils and inflicted heavy horror on the Israelis. But in the Al-Aqsa Storm II, Sinwar alone smashed all the visible and invisible barriers and inflicted a lasting nightmare on Israel. Repeated lies about Sinwar that claimed he hid in the tunnels and used Israeli prisoners as human shield for self-protection or others claiming that he was hiding in the hospitals and among the displaced civilians all meant to defame Sinwar to sow division between him and the Gaza public. But the presence of Sinwar in the battlefield along with two other Hamas fighters showed how cleverly and shrewdly he crossed the Israeli barriers and this time instead of breaking into the occupied territories, he smashed the hearts of enemies to set up an unerasable nightmare.
3. In the Operation Al-Aqsa Storm I, Hamas unleashed a storm, but in the Al-Aqsa Storm II, Sinwar alone unleashed a storm. Hamas's blow to the Israeli regime in Operation Al-Aqsa Storm I has been unique in the history of the 70-year struggle of the Palestinians against the Israeli occupation. Meanwhile, the brightest part of this epic is its major bond to Al-Aqsa Storm II whose honor is Sinwar's because he alone created such a storm. Throughout the history of the struggle of the Palestinians against the occupation, almost all the famous Palestinian fighters died of assassination, and only this unique, epic and honorable martyrdom belonged to Sinwar. At the time of his martyrdom, Sinwar was also political leader of Hamas and according to the calculations of the Israelis and their backers, he had to be in a safe place to manage the highly sensitive current conditions. But the footage of his martyrdom shocked the world and displayed another side of the bright and deep truth of his thought and belief. This short footage was the most honest proof to the fact that Sinwar was loyal to what he said of the God, Islam, the worldly life, the afterlife, struggle against oppression, Imam Ali, Karbala, Al-Quds, and Palestine. His heroic fighting with his head cut and blood shed on earth made a picture excruciating to the Israelis and their supporters and will lead to birth of new Sinwars among the Palestinians and the freedom seekers of the world. What nation can present to the world such a hero? Who in the future can talk about Sinwar while in the current conditions they are either overtly or covertly or both standing against Sinwar and his nation and by the Israelis? If there are those who doubted return of Palestine to the Palestinians, they should be sure that with this way of Sinwar's martyrdom, Al-Quds will be liberated soon. The heroic Sinwar alone stirred Al-Quds Storm II, adding to army of Al-Quds and speeding up liberation of Palestine.
