TORONTO - A year after the launch of “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood” (OAF), the Axis of Resistance remains steadfast and firm in the battlefield, whilst the Zionist regime has yet to achieve their goals. It’s without a doubt that Hamas’s decision to launch this operation on October 7, 2023 changed the trajectory of the battlefield forever. This operation marked the beginning of the downfall of US imperialism and Zionism. 

Four months into OAF, Hamas published a memorandum titled “Our Narrative… Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.” This document included the motivation behind this operation. Hamas questioned the world, that after the following what did the world expect? 

. The Zionist plan to Judaize Al-Aqsa Mosque 

. The Zionist plan to annex the West Bank and Al-Quds entirely 

. The detainment of Palestinians in “Israeli” jails, 

. The seventeen-year-long blockade on the Gaza Strip 

. The expansion of settlements and increased settler violence against Palestinians

. The millions of Palestinian refugees who seek to return to their homeland

. The failure and complicity of superpowers and the international community 

On November 24, 2023, the first day of the prisoner exchange deal, the Palestinian resistance successfully freed 39 Palestinian women and children from Israeli jails, which included 15 prisoners under the age of 18. On November 25, 2023, the second day of the exchange deal, the Palestinian resistance was successful in the liberation of 39 more Palestinian prisoners which included 33 prisoners under the age of 18. 

Hamas rightfully took the initiative to defend their land and their people, to free their land and their people when the rest of the world remained complicit. The Palestinian resistance simply fulfilled and continues to fulfill their religious obligation by taking a stance against this occupation when the rest of the world failed to do so. 

A year has passed and the Zionist regime refuses to accept any more deals from the Palestinian resistance. Settlers have had dozens of demonstrations demanding a prisoner exchange, just last month over 500,000 settlers took to the streets demanding that a deal be made with the Palestinian resistance. 

Israel dictates its victories over the killing of women and children. The more barbaric their crimes get, the closer they are to their demise.

What exactly has this regime achieved militarily? This is a regime that dictates its victories over the killing of women and children. The more barbaric their crimes get, the closer they are to their demise. During their failed ground invasion in November 2023, they declared victory over Al-Shifa hospital claiming that it was a “Hamas command center.” This was simply a desperate attempt to make it appear that they had achieved something militarily. In reality, all they have done is commit violent crimes against Palestinians inside a hospital.

While the occupation forces were focused on their failed ground invasion, the Palestinian resistance was successfully targeting Zionist tanks with “Al-Yassin 105” shells. For the past year the Palestinian resistance has been documenting their achievements and showing the world that they are fully capable of dismantling this Zionist regime. On the other hand, the Zionist regime humiliated themselves with their failed propaganda videos claiming that a calendar held the names of “Hamas terrorists”. 

With this honorable operation, the Palestinian resistance has exposed the hypocrites, normalizers, sectarians and the international community. Falsehood has been exposed and the truth continues to prevail. Above all, the Palestinian resistance has lit a spark into the believers' hearts who are determined to stand by them and will not hesitate to sacrifice their lives for this cause, for the sake of their brethren and for the sake of their Lord. 

The Axis from Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, Syria and Iran have all played a crucial role in supporting the Palestinian resistance. 

Syria has been a persistent supplier of weapons to the resistance. In addition, Syria has hosted the Palestinian factions and leaders of the resistance; military barracks were opened for them and leaders have graduated there (Ahmed Jibril). Syria continues to support the resistance by supplying them with arms and by targeting the Zionist regime. 

Lebanon’s Hezbollah joined the battlefield on October 8, 2023. Since then, Hezbollah has driven out over 60,000 settlers from the occupied north, this number only increases as the resistance in Lebanon continues to defend their sovereignty from Zionist colonizers. 

On October 17, 2023, the Islamic resistance in Iraq targeted US bases in Iraq and Syria countless times; in addition, they targeted occupied Haifa with advanced cruise missiles, marking their entry onto the battlefield. 

Yemen’s Ansar Allah and Armed Forces joined OAF on October 18, 2023, where they launched their first operation by targeting the port of Eilat by using cruise missiles. A month later the Yemeni resistance began their first phase of naval operations. 

Iran, as its religious and moral obligation, materially supports the resistance and in the words of martyr Saleh Al-Arouri “is the most hostile country in the world towards the Zionist entity.” On April 13, 2024, Iran launched “Operation True Promise” where they successfully targeted military bases with ballistic missiles in response to the Zionist regime's attack against the Iranian consulate in Syria.

Likewise, on October 1, 2024, in response to the killing of Ismael Haniyeh, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, and Abbas Nilforoushan, Iran targeted and destroyed Zionist military and security sites in occupied Palestine in which 90% of the 200 rockets hit their targets. 

These operations carried out by the Axis of Resistance have proven to show that the Zionist regime’s “Iron Dome” defense system is a failure. Settlers themselves have started to question the Zionist regime: “We have never seen anything like this before, not even in 2006. We all assumed that there would be a response from Hezbollah, but we did not think it would be this strong, especially when there is Iron Dome, which is supposed to protect us.” 

The Zionist regime has yet to bring back the settler hostages and has yet to dismantle the Palestinian resistance. It has been a year and all this occupation has achieved is complete humiliation. The Axis of Resistance continues to carry out their operations without being 

deterred. The occupation has failed to realize time after time that the killing of leaders will not weaken the resistance. When one leader ascends to martyrdom, another one takes his place, and this continues until liberation.