Al-Duwairi after a year: The Gaza war is inevitable, resistance is a principle, and Hezbollah has two options policy

After a full year of war had passed Gaza StripMilitary expert Fayez Al-Duwairi presents a vision of the outcome of the battles, the stages they went through, and the resistance strategy in confronting the Israeli occupation army, in addition to the escalation with Hezbollah.

Al-Duwairi said – in an interview with Al Jazeera Net – that the operation “Al-Aqsa flood It was an inevitable and inevitable necessity, and if “October 7th” had not happened, Israel would have created an event to confront the Islamic Resistance Movement (agitation)militarily.

The retired Major General added: Hezbollah He was infiltrated, and despite the repeated assassination scenes in his leadership, he did not benefit from these experiences, and he was unable to close the gaps in his ranks, and the infiltration still exists.

He also referred to the stages that the war on Gaza went through since October 7, 2023, up to the current stage, which witnessed only a single truce that lasted only 7 days.

And the details of the dialogue..

• After a full year of war on the Gaza Strip, has the Palestinian resistance achieved gains from the “Al-Aqsa Flood”?

This is the first time that Israel has been exhausted in a war for this long, and since the resistance now represents the Arab side, all wars between the Arabs and the occupation army were short-lived, so this battle is a precedent in the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict, and it is also considered a milestone.

This paradox comes from the nature of the Palestinian resistance, which is located in a narrow coastal strip, and has been under siege since 2007, and the lung it breathes through tunnels was with the Egyptian side. However, between 2006 and 2023, it was able to build fighting organizations based on a religious, moral, and ethical heritage, and its goal is The primary goal is to restore the occupied territories and restore freedom and dignity to the Palestinian people.

• Was “Seventh of October” necessary under these circumstances?

Here we must clarify several basic points:

• First: Are we talking about a piece of land called “Palestine” that is negotiable, and therefore subject to the process of buying and selling and the language of trade? Or are we talking about a country whose liberation requires sacrifice?
• Second: What was the news on the Palestinian issue before the Al-Aqsa Flood operation? It declined on the priority list of most Arab governments, and there were normalization projects, and Israeli settlement was eating up the entire Palestinian area under an extremist right-wing government, and soon the Palestinians would have found themselves out of their land, just as the Muslims left Andalusia irrevocably.
• Third: Did we expect this betrayal and denial? The most pessimistic reading of the scene expected the war to end within 3 months Yahya Al-Sanwar He himself said at the beginning of the battle, “We have the ability to fight for 9 months.” But now we’re talking about a year.

The reason is clear, because the Western world not only supports Israel, but defends it; The American fleets are there to protect Israel, and distant Australia, as well as France, Britain, and Germany, are all spearheads in this conflict.

Our history has taught us that when the Arab-Islamic will was present, we were able to defeat the Mongols and defeat the Crusaders at the walls of Akka, but we lost Andalusia when this will was absent. As it is said, “The more beautiful the bride, the greater her dowry,” Palestine is a beautiful bride worthy of sacrifice.

• What are the most important milestones that the war went through during a year?

Every day in this war represents an independent stage, but the critical stages began on the “7th of October” and continued until the Israeli entity began to regain its balance, and the Air Force began bombing the Gaza Strip, and this situation continued for 20 days, and we can call it First stage.

And off I went The second stage On October 27, when the ground operation towards Gaza City began through the attack from Al-Rashid Street from the northwestern corner of the Coast Road, this route took more than a month until the ceasefire phase and the only truce in which an exchange of some prisoners occurred.

Then she came The third stage After that, it was more ferocious, as the attack began towards the central camps and then moved towards Khan YounisThis stage took about 4 months.

andFourth stage It was intrusive Rafah city Which started 4 months ago, and is still ongoing.

• Was Hamas’ strategy for managing the battle militarily sound?

Now we are entering into the term asymmetric war. The war in Gaza is between the resistance factions and the occupation army. From the perspective of conventional war, it becomes absurd for there to be a war at all, because there is no comparison of the powers that exist between two states, that is, between two forces that are symmetrical in terms of the quality of weapons, aviation, and armor. Technical factors, leadership competence, and other forms of military superiority.

As for what is happening in Gaza, it revolves around the fact that there is a state that fights an idea and a principle before it fights a fighter, and ideas do not die or are defeated. The great powers may achieve military victory, but they cannot stop the societal movement and the ambition of future generations, as the idea is transmitted from one generation to the next.

Since we are talking about an asymmetric war, we must adapt the existing capabilities to suit the challenges, and this was done by building the combat capabilities of the resistance factions, because the war was inevitably coming, and if “October 7th” had not happened, Israel would have created an event to confront Hamas militarily.

There was also the construction of a weapons system that could deal with the incursion of tanks into the sector, and the construction of a network of tunnels that would enable the fighter to freely move and confront firepower, in addition to preparing all the logistical needs that serve this situation.

The most important point here is that the resistance with all its factions did not expect the war to continue for this long, and did not expect this Arab abandonment of this resistance for a year.

• Recently, Israel achieved a major breakthrough in southern Lebanon. What impact does this have on the war in Gaza?

The cornerstone of the conflict is Gaza, and since October 8, the northern front has entered the field of conflict as a support front, and its role cannot be overlooked. Analysts may disagree on this role, its size, and the nature of participation, but those who participated remain better than those who did not participate, and what Hezbollah provided It was according to his readings and data.

Now I speak with pain because of what happened. It has become clear that Hezbollah has been infiltrated, as evidenced by repeated assassination scenes such as: Saleh Al-Arouri andIsmail Haniyeh andFouad Shukr And other party leaders, without benefiting from these experiences, then came signed Pager And wireless, the volume of transactions and the possibility of closing these loopholes was not what it should be, and the penetration still exists.

Then came the assassination of the party’s Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah With his symbolism and with him 20 party cadres, as Israel says, what was the response? I expected the response to be on the same night or the next morning, with no less than 800 to 1,000 medium- and long-range ballistic and cruise missiles against critical targets in the Israeli entity.

Before the assassination of Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah was like one walking on a tight rope, obligated to follow two contradictory matters: the equation of deterrence versus deterrence, and not going to open war, and therefore working to reconcile the contradictions is very difficult.

But the important thing is, how was walking on the tightrope explained from the other side? How did Israel interpret Hezbollah’s response? She explained it by saying that the party was still operating within the circle of containment and unwillingness to escalate, so she escalated and carried out the assassination operations that were almost daily. However, if the response since the first assassination had been harsh, the Israeli Prime Minister would have been reinstated. Benjamin Netanyahu His calculations.

• Do you still remember the phrase “Analyze, Dori”? Does it still have the same effect?

I did not expect this cry, and I had to put it in its context and the moment in which it was said. A fighter carrying a weapon in a certain location, watching a building containing occupation army forces, seizes the opportunity, fires, hits the target, and shouts, “In his heart, boys, solve it, Douiri.”

The magnificence of the scene was that the statement came immediately after the missile was launched, and when the missile hit the target, Al-Duwairi was asked to analyze that, because it was a scene of pride and dignity, so I am proud of it.