Qassam rockets strike Tel Aviv on first anniversary of Al-Aqsa Flood
The Israeli army confirmed the attack was launched from Khan Yunis in Gaza, an area that has been raided multiple times by the invading troops over the past year
A rocket barrage launched from Gaza by the Qassam Brigades, Hamas' armed wing, hit the south of Tel Aviv on 7 October, injuring at least two on the first anniversary of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.
Qassam said in a statement that its fighters targeted Tel Aviv “with a barrage of Maqadma M90 rockets as part of the ongoing battle of attrition and in response to the zionist massacres against civilians and the deliberate displacement of our people.”
Following the attack, the Israeli army said in a brief statement that the rockets were fired from the Khan Yunis area in southern Gaza, indicating that the Palestinian resistance has yet again rehabilitated its fighting capabilities in an area that has seen multiple raids by the invading army.
The rocket attack came on the first anniversary of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, which saw thousands of Palestinian resistance fighters break out of Gaza by air, sea, and land, cutting through Israeli army bases and taking more than 240 captives.
“The crossing of the glorious 7th of October shattered the illusions the enemy had created for itself, convincing the world and the region of its supposed superiority and capabilities,” Khalil al-Hayya, a senior member of Hamas' politburo, said in a video statement on Sunday.
“Performing the operation, Palestinian fighters carried out heroic acts that have changed the balance of power. Our objective is clear: we seek the complete liberation of our land and holy sites, the establishment of a sovereign, independent Palestinian state, and the return of refugees to their homeland,” Hayya added.
In response to the resistance operation, Israel launched a brutal ethnic cleansing campaign inside Gaza, killing more than 40,000 Palestinians.
In total, 149,036 Palestinians have either been killed, wounded, or missing, of which 69 percent are women and children, according to statistics reported by the Civil Defense Directorate in the Gaza Strip.
Tel Aviv also recently expanded its genocidal war to neighboring Lebanon, killing hundreds in less than two weeks and dropping more bombs in two days than the US army dropped in an entire year during its 20-year occupation of Afghanistan.