How do martyrdom operations change the course of war?
According to Al Jazeera, on Tuesday evening, while the Zionist regime is approaching the end of the first year of its invasion of Gaza, and in addition to Gaza, it has started a new tension in Lebanon, two Palestinian youths carried out an operation in the center of Tel Aviv. Infiltrating the occupied territories, they targeted and disarmed 2 Zionist soldiers with cold weapons and killed or injured 22 Zionists with their weapons.
The operation came a day after the Al-Wala news website reported that the army had raised its alert level following warnings of a martyrdom operation ahead of the start of the Jewish New Year holiday.
This report adds that in the struggle of the Palestinians against the occupation of the Zionist regime, the liberation movements use martyrdom operations to inflict the greatest damages and casualties in material, spiritual and psychological dimensions to the Zionist enemy.
On February 25, 1994, the Hamas movement used this type of operation for the first time in response to the crime of the Zionist regime in the Ibrahimi Shrine, which was carried out by the extreme Zionist Baruch Goldstein. In this operation, a Zionist bus exploded and 20 people died in this operation and more than 104 others were injured. After that, 14 other martyrdom operations were carried out on this occasion, which caused the death of 86 Zionists and caused a painful reaction to the crimes of the Zionists in occupied Palestine.
According to this report, the martyrdom operation continued to be met with widespread support from the Palestinians, and this popular legitimacy, which poll centers, including the poll conducted by the Palestinian Center for Surveys and Strategic Studies, showed that 69 percent of Palestinians in 2000 attacks They have approved martyrdom against the Zionist regime.
In this way, the number of martyrdom operations increased, so that between 2000 and 2005, there were 135 martyrdom operations among all Palestinian groups, 54 of which were dedicated to the Hamas movement. As a result of these operations, hundreds of Zionists were killed and hundreds of others were injured, in addition to the fact that many financial and psychological damages were caused to the Zionist regime as a result of these actions.
Al-Jazeera adds that in the current situation, martyrdom-seeking operations are considered one of the best options, because martyrdom-seeking agents have more maneuverability and stealth than organized elements, in addition to the fact that the production of explosives for such operations is much easier than Access to classic weapons.
In addition to this, it is very difficult to intercept and identify martyrdom-seeking agents before carrying out their operations, and this issue increases the enemy’s element of surprise and high power in choosing more effective targets.