Controversy has erupted over the suggestion that Israel was aware of the imminent offensive but chose not to act. Benjamin Netanyahu firmly denies this. Hamas claims the ‘Al-Aqsa Deluge’ operation was completely confidential.
From the Russian channel’s studio in Beirut, the Hamas representative further clarified that “after half an hour, all Palestinian resistance factions were contacted, along with allies from Hezbollah and Iran.” This contradicts several articles confidently asserting Iran’s active involvement in the organisation.
“The Turks were also informed, and a meeting was held with them three hours later, at 9 AM,” he added. On 11 October, an official source toldthat President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, while denouncing the “shameful methods” of the Israeli Defence Forces, had initiated negotiations with Hamas.
Could Egyptian intelligence have discovered the plan behind the ‘Al-Aqsa Deluge’ operation? If so, did they inform their Israeli counterparts? In reality, this warning communicated to Israel, far from being concrete intelligence, was a “general alert”, according to an informed source contacted by the British newspaper.
“We’ve been preparing for it for two years,” said Ali Baraka. He unveiled Hamas’s strategy, which involved adopting a “rational” approach without showing any signs of resorting to force. Hamas “didn’t enter any war. We made them believe we were busy governing Gaza and completely abandoning resistance,” stated its representative. During all this time, secretly, Hamas was preparing for this major attack.We believe that Africa is poorly represented, and badly under-estimated.
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