The October 7 attack brought Israel back to “starting line,” said Mr Khaled Meshaalformer leader of Hamas, on the Al Arabiya television network.

“The Al-Aqsa flood brought the conqueror back to square one and threatened his existenceKhaled Meshaal said, using the name given by Hamas to the unprecedented attack on Israeli soil on October 7, 2023, which triggered the war in the Gaza Strip.

Referring to the Hamas attack, he stated that “it was a normal response to the occupation regime and the intensifying settlement plans (of the Palestinian territories), the siege and the attack on Al-Aqsa“, of the mosque in the Square of the Mosques in the Old City of Jerusalem.

Khaled Meshaal also accused Israel of making threats against Egypt and Jordan, despite bilateral peace agreements that ended the war between Israel and the two Arab countries in 1979 and 1994 respectively.

“The enemy wants everyone in the region to be subservient and acts this way even against countries with which it is not at war“, he said, adding that Israel “threatens Arab and Islamic national security everywhere.”

In Beirut, the Hezbollah organization vows in a statement issued on the first anniversary of the attack to continue fighting Israel’s attack, “of the carcinoma to be removed» in the long run.

Lebanon’s Shiite pro-Iranian organization says it opened the front after October 7 “to defend Lebanon”, acknowledging that it has “paid a high price” for it.

Hamas’ armed wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, announced a short time ago that it had launched a rocket attack on Tel Aviv as the Israeli military command announced that sirens had sounded in the city and central Israel.