Today you have a rendezvous with a great victory and a dazzling triumph. From the frontline of the indomitable and proud Gaza, the Al-Aqsa Flood has been launched by the Al-Qassam Brigades, the factions of the Resistance and the children of our Palestinian people. You have seen the grandiose images of these pious and courageous fighters who drew the stigmata of humiliation, defeat and collapse on the face of this enemy. The Al-Aqsa Flood announced by my dear brother Commander of the Resistance General Staff, mujahid Mohamed Deif, the Al-Aqsa Flood which is led on the ground by the Commander of the Hamas Islamic Resistance, with brother Yahya Sinwar in the forefront, the Al-Aqsa Flood which is led by the leaders of this movement from all its positions, with all the (other) factions of the Resistance, with all the children of our people, with all the children of this Ummah who ardently aspire to the Great Victory.
What did these defeatists expect, (these Arabs) who have spread the culture of impotence and despair, and wanted the path to normalization (of relations with Israel) to shape this stage with the recognition of the enemy? Did they ever imagine they would see such grandiose images, such heroic deeds, such sacrifices, such courage, such pride? The perpetrators of these feats are “men who were sincere in their commitment to God. Some of them have reached their end [martyrdom], and others are still waiting; and they have not varied in any way (in their commitment)” (Qur’an, XXXIII, 23). These men shaped the gates of the Great Victory, and opened them for our people and our Ummah. These men, who know the Quran by heart, fast and pray, in adoration of God the Most High and Exalted, have attacked and “penetrated inside the dwellings” (Quran, XVII, 5) in the heart of our occupied territory, around Gaza and further afield, “a help [from] God and a (promise of) upcoming victory” (Quran, LXI, 13). You are most magnificent, O men of faith, O men of the Al-Qassam Brigades, O men of Gaza, Gaza of pride and dignity, of courage, heroism and sacrifice. Today, Gaza erases from the Arab-Muslim Community the shame of defeat, the shame of acceptance and inaction. You are most grandiose, O commanders who lead this battle, the battle of the beginning of the Liberation of our Quds (Jerusalem), our land, our people and our prisoners held in the jails of the Zionist occupation.