“Abu Ubaida”…and how to defeat the “occupation” in psychological warfare | Opinions

The barbaric war declared and launched by the Zionist entity on the Gaza Strip – following the shock of the “Al-Aqsa Flood” last October 7 – revealed an amazing development in the media capabilities and skills of the Palestinian resistance.

This showed competence, deep understanding, and comprehension of psychology, sociology, and communication sciences – despite the modest capabilities and means – which allowed the resistance to make good use of the Internet, its technological media, and alternative and traditional media in waging a painful and confusing “psychological war” against the “entity.” Investing in and marketing the resistance’s victories in the ground battle with the occupation army on the outskirts of the Gaza Strip, and before that the crushing defeat in the “flood.”

Documentation of combat actions

The four weeks of the “ground operation” – by the occupation army against the steadfast Gaza Strip (October 27 – November 24) – witnessed a unique intensification and diversification of “media” strikes, delivered by the resistance to the “occupation army.” Which destroyed the morale of its soldiers, and caused sharp divisions between the government, the leaders of the “entity,” and its citizens alike.

These media strikes were accompanied by the heavy losses of the occupation army at the hands of the resistance in equipment: the destruction and damage of 335 armored vehicles by the Al-Qassam Brigades, according to its spokesman, Abu Ubaida, in addition to what was destroyed by the Al-Quds Brigades and other factions, including the fall of hundreds of soldiers. dead, and many times more wounded.

With the implementation of the “Al-Aqsa Flood”, it seemed that the “Resistance” had a very effective media plan – despite its simplicity – based on the idea of ​​video documentation of the strikes and combat actions carried out by the resistance against the army of the Zionist entity. Recognizing the passion of the pioneers of social networking sites (alternative media) for video clips and the strong demand for them, as long as the content is distinct, honest, and presents something new, far from fabrication.

Thus, the Brigades documented the incidents of their storming of the occupation army camps around the Gaza Strip, and recorded audio and video clips of the work of controlling these camps, killing and capturing hundreds of soldiers and officers there, and taking them to the Gaza Strip.

Military media and radio clips

The “Military Media of the Al-Qassam Brigades,” led by “Abu Ubaida,” handled it with great professionalism and craftsmanship. It did not broadcast all the clips at once, so search engines would contain them and swallow them, without showing them to the target audience, so they would not be useful, especially in light of the anti-Zionist entity propaganda. The accumulation of events, and the global reactions at that time.

Al-Qassam resorted to broadcasting the clips and publishing them at intermittent intervals over several days, which increased their effects and spread globally, like wildfire. Exposing, inside Israel, the myth of the “invincible army that is difficult to break or penetrate,” and in front of the entire universe; And to mobilize Arab public opinion, which is shackled by defeatist regimes.

Exhausting the morale of the soldiers

In this manner, the resistance (Al-Qassam Brigades and Al-Quds Brigades) proceeded, documenting its clashes and fighting the “occupation” soldiers, and destroying its vehicles penetrating kilometers into the Gaza Strip, with traditional “tools and weapons”… but they are deadly due to the will of the fighters, their doctrine, and their unrelenting determination to achieve victory or Certificate.

These “media materials” exhausted the morale of the occupation army members – already shattered since the Flood operation – which resulted in an entire “company” fleeing from the battlefield, and the army expelling its commander and his deputy from service, for fear of transmitting the desertion infection among the soldiers, and thousands of soldiers refraining from joining. For their military units, (according to Hebrew newspapers).

Harsh psychological warfare

All of this is supported by the “fiery speeches” of Abu Ubaida, who enjoys wide credibility, Arab and international, and within the Hebrew state – his statements are translated into Hebrew and elsewhere by activists – as he publishes documented data from the battlefields. These speeches in themselves are like “psychological bombs” burning the morale of the entire Zionist entity, striking all its components.

The words of “Abu Ubaida” inflamed the feelings of the free people, and prompted everyone to wait for his appearance, to find out the certain news about the battles and fighting taking place with the occupation army. Despite this, he did not go to extremes in his appearance, so he would not appear, except to announce something new.

“Abu Ubaida” conducted – with the resistance’s military media – a “harsh psychological war,” according to the description of Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

From this war, Abu Ubaida announced more than once that the “resistance” is willing to release Israeli civilian prisoners as soon as appropriate security conditions are available. However, the arrogance of “Netanyahu and his extremist Zionist companions” obstructs this and pushes them to brutally attack Gaza. Hoping to bring the resistance to its knees, which contributed to stirring up Israeli public opinion against Netanyahu.

Removing slurs

All of this, with the video clips of Israeli female prisoners published by the Al-Qassam Brigades, in which they attacked Netanyahu, for his failure to liberate them, which ignited the Israeli interior, sparked a movement and sharp division, and prompted the families of the prisoners to protest against “Netanyahu,” which ultimately forced him – under duress – to enter into… A deal to exchange prisoners, and accept Hamas’s conditions, which have cracked heads, with its aggressive statements about wiping it out of existence.

The “occupying state” succeeded in promoting lies and slanders that label the “Hamas movement” and its fighters as terrorists and ISIS, against the backdrop of the “Flood of Al-Aqsa”, with the personal participation of US President Joe Biden, who repeated the Israeli allegations without evidence and shamelessness, with European leaders and politicians, and behind them. They are all Western media, biased and racist, lacking professional honor.

However, these slanders and lies faded away, replaced by pictures of the Israeli prisoners bidding farewell to the Qassam fighters in a friendly, compassionate, and sincere manner, as they left Gaza – in front of the whole world -; In implementation of the prisoner exchange deal, as well as testimonies from female prisoners to Hebrew media about the good morals of the “Al-Qassam” and their care for them. Therefore, the occupation decided to prevent Israeli prisoners and their families from dealing with the media.

The “resistance” has achieved a great, well-deserved victory in its fierce and painful psychological war against the Zionist occupation. I defeated him despite his superiority in falsifying awareness and deception, and in this type of war, but he believed in the justice of the cause, and was armed with knowledge, and strong determination.

Glory to the resistance.