This evening – 22:05 Mecca time – Al Jazeera is presenting a new and special investigation from its program “What is Hidden is Greater” entitled “The Flood” regarding the Palestinian resistance attack on the Gaza Strip settlements on October 7, 2023.
The investigation, presented by journalist Tamer Al-Mashal, was able to obtain rare scenes revealed by the Al-Qassam Brigades – the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) – for the first time related to the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation and its aftermath.
The program succeeded in conducting exclusive interviews that revealed exciting details, and also documented events with audio and video that had not been seen before.
The promotional trailer for the episode shows scenes of Al-Qassam fighters inside the tunnels, setting up explosive devices for Israeli military vehicles and then detonating them.
The footage documents the appearance of fighters from the elite Al-Qassam Forces inside the Israeli “Tiger” personnel carrier, and concludes with “Top Secret” with a reference to the Commander-in-Chief of the Al-Qassam Brigades, Muhammad Al-Deif.
On October 7, 2023, the Al-Qassam Brigades carried out a major attack on bases, barracks and settlements around the Gaza Strip, killing hundreds of Israeli soldiers and officers.
The Qassams also captured at least 240 Israelis, and more than 100 of them were released during a temporary humanitarian truce in November 2023, while dozens of detainees were killed in the Gaza Strip due to the Israeli aggression that continued on the Strip for more than 15 months.
Since the beginning of the war, the number of officers and soldiers killed in the occupation army – whose names were allowed to be published – has reached 841 dead, in addition to 5,656 injured, but Palestinian and Israeli reports indicate that the real toll is higher than that.
In the middle of this month, Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani announced that the mediators had reached a ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip, pointing out that its first phase would last 42 days.
Israel intends to release 1,977 Palestinian prisoners, including 290 sentenced to life imprisonment and 1,687 to varying sentences, within the first phase of the ceasefire agreement in Gaza, in exchange for the release of 33 Israeli prisoners detained in the Gaza Strip.