The Israeli army claims that it is invincible, but the military wing of Hamas, Al-Qassam Brigades, managed to rub its nose in the dirt.
By Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
When the Shujaya neighbourhood in Gaza was stormed last week, it was a very dark night, especially for the Zionist enemies. The moon, though, shone brightly in the sky above the besieged Palestinian territory, a territory filled with pride and dignity. It was a night on which the Arab Zionists wept like the Jewish Zionists as they wondered how a small group of people with no aircraft, tanks, smart bombs, submarines or surveillance technology could inflict a defeat on the strongest army in the region in possession of an arsenal of the latest weapons, ammunition and equipment. The US has even opened its own arsenals to the Zionists, and sent two aircraft carrier task forces to cover their back in the Mediterranean. The Israeli army claims that it is invincible, but the military wing of Hamas, Al-Qassam Brigades, managed to rub its nose in the dirt and expose it to the whole world as a fragile force that relies on modern technology controlled remotely, with cowardly soldiers who flee when confronted at point blank range.
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There is no doubt that the battle of Shujaya will go down as one of Al-Qassam’s astonishing feats that submissive minds cannot comprehend, especially the Arab Zionists, who are more dangerous, I believe, that the Israeli Zionists and their allies. If it were not for such Arabs, Israel would not have dared to attack the Palestinians in Gaza and commit the most horrific crimes against the largely civilian population. More than 18,800 Palestinians have been martyred so far, most of them children and women. Israel would not have been able to destroy civilian infrastructure, including places of worship and hospitals, without a green light from the Zionist Arab regimes, just as they got one from the US. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has admitted that the Arab regimes and the Palestinian Authority are with the apartheid state and also want to get rid of Hamas as he does.
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant acknowledged that there were heavy losses among the ranks of the so-called “Israel Defence Forces” in Shujaya. One senior military commander described the ambush by Al-Qassam Brigades as a painful blow in which close friends, soldiers and fellow officers were lost. The Chief of Staff of the Israeli Army, Herzi Halevi, described the ambush as difficult and dangerous, while Netanyahu expressed his sadness, describing the battle at the losses in Shujaya neighbourhood as “difficult”. Al-Qassam fighters apparently captured senior officers, including the commander of the 13th Golani Division, the commander of the 13th Golani Battalion, the commander of the 669th Commando Unit, the commander of the 51st Battalion and another battalion commander in the 51st Division, as well as a large number of soldiers.
Whenever the Israeli occupation forces suffer such a major defeat, they turn their anger on Palestinian civilians and drop even more US-supplied munitions on them. They are cowards, like those described by The Almighty in the Qur’an thus: “Indeed, there is more fear in their hearts for you [believers] than for Allah. That is because they are a people who do not comprehend. Even united, they would not [dare] fight against you except [from] within fortified strongholds or from behind walls.”
Shujaya is one of the most prominent and largest neighbourhoods in the Gaza Strip, and one of the most densely populated. It has witnessed armed confrontations between Palestinians and Zionist occupation soldiers in recent decades. Lying on the east of the Gaza Strip, the occupation troops must face the neighbourhood’s fighters in every military offensive against Gaza. The Zionists have failed over the decades to break Shujaya. The neighbourhood is credited with igniting the first Palestinian Intifada in 1987. It is also the stronghold of the Unified Leadership of the Uprising, which thwarted the project to resettle Palestinian refugees in Sinai in 1955.
Some important names in the history of Palestinian resistance against the Israeli occupation have emerged from Shujaya, including Ahmed Jabari, one of the founders of Al-Qassam Brigades. He is known for the capture of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in 2006, and as the driving force behind the Wafa Al-Ahrar prisoner exchange deal.
Southern Shujaya is known as the Turkmen area, named after the clans who settled there during the reign of the Ayyubid Sultan Al-Salih Ayyub in the 13th century. Northern Shujaya, or the Kurdish neighbourhood, is said to have been built during the reign of the Ayyubids, and its name is attributed to Shuja’a Al-Kurdi who was martyred in one of the battles between the Ayyubids and the Crusaders in 1239 CE.
The Palestinian resistance in Gaza in general, and not just in Shujaya neighbourhood, has set the bar high for nations struggling for freedom and independence. Operation Al-Aqsa Flood in early October and Israel’s subsequent genocidal war against the Palestinians in Gaza signal the beginning of the end for the Zionist state. The Palestinian dream of regaining the usurped land, no matter how great the sacrifices are, is starting to become a reality. The Palestinian blood that has been shed unjustly and with such violence by the settler-colonial, occupation state will nourish the free land of Palestine from the river to the sea
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12 responses to “A night on which the Zionists wept”
Well,when you boast about your incompetent military and have no real facts other than propaganda aka wishful thinking,what can be expected by cowards .they relied on their fairy tales and got their butts handed to them. It actually says a lot about liars. Lol
I have to admit a guilty pleasure I learned in the Ukraine-Russia war: I enjoy seeing Nazis killed. Not greatly, not wantonly, but a tinge of “They got what was coming them” and, more compassionately, “Maybe this will put an end to their psychotic misery.” End the genocide, end the occupation. No war. From the river to the sea, peace and justice for everyone. And finally and most importantly, “U.S. and the West out of… (fill in the blank with any place and it will be true).
The zionists have wanted all of Palestine ever since they moved there . Today ,everyone in Palestine is Hamas .The children,women and the aged ,Drs.,teachers etc.etc. The reality is and should be that the zionist citizens should be the ones to leave because the Palestinians have been there for centuries .Not so especially for the zionists.The Jews that were there before 1948 should be allowed to stay ,providing they don’t have a zionist bone in their body .The Palestinians have always gotten along with them . Go back to Europe ,go to Ukraine where most the Ukrainians have left already .The Russians will tame them .They know how to do that . They are well on their way of completely dealing with the racist Nazis .Next up would be the racist zionists .
The Israelis have shown such appalling brutality, such repeated lies and distortions, how are they any better than their German oppressors in World Way Two?
If they ever did, they no longer have the right to a homeland.
They should be driven out as if their theft of Palestinian land never happened, though what could make up for the decades and the current suffering, in the West Bank as well as the horrors in Gaza?
From the river to the sea! Or out of the West Bank completely and exchange a northern border with Lebanon and all of Galilee for Gaza. Let the Israelis keep Gaza. Let Palestine be a single entity!
Some solution should now be enforced by the Arab nations: they now have the power and most of the world with them…Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Iran, Saudi, the Gulf States, Turkey and the rest?
Joint communique: stop now or else! Out of West Bank, all you so-called settlers and retreat from Golan Heights and the north and Galilee
Make some such Israel’s price for continued existence.
And goodbye Netanyahu, Likud and Eretz Israel ! And welcome the State of Palestine!
Then what happens when Israel nukes a major city under their “blackmail umbrella”?
WELL, AS THE SAYING GOES AND BY THE WAY ITS TRUE TO THE CORE TOO; IF YOU THROW ‘ONE PUNCH’ YOU WILL RECEIVE AT LEAST ‘2 PUNCHES’ IN RETURN… OKAY, SO ZIONISTS MAY THROW ONE, BUT THEN FOR SURE, RECEIVE 2 IN RETURN.. AND YOU ALL KNOW BY WHOM.. WITH 2 THROWN ON THEM PIDDLY LITTLE DICK.HEADS IN THEIR OCCUPIED TERRITORY, IT WILL MAKE THEM IMPOTENT FOR A LIFETIME TO COME..
“The Israelis have shown such appalling brutality, such repeated lies and distortions, how are they any better than their German oppressors in World Way Two?”
Do you notice your use of the word “German?” Notice you didn’t use the word “Nazi.” But yet you use the word “Zionist,” but not the word “Jew.” Your oversight here is a main reason why Jews can murder people without accountability.
When will we all be able to identify the culprit behind this entire debacle? It’s the Tribe, stupid.”
“Zionists out of Palestine!”
A good sign to make for for demos.
The comment feature totally does not work anymore.
You have to be careful. There’s an option to “cancel reply,” if you take, will allow you to comment to someone else, or make a comment to all.
All the anticipated gas and oil revenue that was going to pay for the Israeli military destruction of Gaza is now but another Netanyahu pipe dream. As may well be his dream of avoiding imprisonment.
This is the first time I’ve seen “Arab Zionist.” I guess it makes sense, for many of the leaders of Arab nations.