Israel Palestine War LIVE News: ‘Israel has surrounded Gaza from all sides for 16 years. Because of America and Western countries, no one raised their voice in our favor, the whole world ignored us. We have decided that this will not happen again.
Palestine Commander Mohammad Daif said these things in an audio tape broadcast after firing 5 thousand rockets on Israel on October 7. According to a Reuters report, Mohammad Deif is behind the entire planning of the attack on Israel.
Deif is unable to remove the Israeli army’s raid on Al-Aqsa Mosque 2 years ago from his heart and mind. After seeing the attacks on worshipers in the mosque, he was determined to take revenge.
After all, who is Mohammed Deif, and how did he completely plan the attack on Israel?
Two brains, one mastermind
Only a few leaders of Hamas had information about what was going to happen in Israel on October 7. It was kept so secret that even Hamas’s patron Iran had no idea about it. Iran only knew that something big was going to happen.
Israel was misled after the Al-Aqsa Mosque controversy. He was given the illusion that Hamas wanted to focus on the economic development of the Gaza Strip, rather than escalating the conflict.
According to a Hamas leader, they had been preparing for this war for two years. According to Reuters, the decision to attack was taken jointly by Deif and the Hamas leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar. Although its mastermind was Deif. He had done the entire planning as to when and how the attacks would be carried out.
Who is Mohammed Deif?
Deif has been the head of Hamas’s military wing since 2002. Mohammed Deif was born in 1965 in Gaza’s Khan Younis camp (refugee camp). At that time Gaza was occupied by Egypt. His father was also among those who infiltrated Israel with weapons in 1950.
Since childhood, he had seen his relatives fighting for Palestine. Deif studied at the Islamic University of Gaza. No picture of Deif has been revealed after the age of 20.
Hamas was established in the late 80s. Deif was about 20 years old at that time. This was the time when the first Palestinian intifada or rebellion against Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip began. During this period, Deif was held responsible for the deaths of dozens of people in suicide bombings.
After this, in 1993, an agreement was reached in America, thousands of miles away from Israel-Palestine. The world knows this as the Oslo Accords. This peace agreement was signed between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), the organization representing the Palestinians. Under this agreement, the PLO recognized Israel on September 10, 1993. In return, Israel also made a big decision.
He considered PLO to be the official representative of Palestine, but Hamas did not like this. He said that Palestine should be returned to all the land it had before the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. There was an attack in Israel in 1996 against the Oslo Accords. More than 50 people were killed in this. Deif was also accused of this.
Attempts were made to kill Deif more than 7 times.
Deif has been at the top of Israel’s “most wanted” list for years. Israel tried to kill him 7 times in 2021 but failed. The US State Department has declared him a terrorist. According to America, when there was a fierce conflict between Israel and Hamas in 2014, it was Deif who made the aggressive strategy of Hamas.
In 2014, Israeli forces tried to kill Deif in an attack on a home. In this too she failed; Deif’s wife, seven-month-old son, and a 3-year-old daughter were killed in the attack. According to the New York Times, security expert and Israeli journalist Ronen Bergman, Deif is the only military commander of Hamas who has survived for so long.
Because Deif was not killed despite so many efforts, he is called a ‘bulletproof legend’. The Financial Times report quoted Israeli officials as saying that Deif had targeted buses and soldiers in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
