Before March turns its last hours, Palestinians commemorate 25 years since the resistance carried out the "holy revenge" operations for which the Israelis described this month as a "black March."

  • When did the "holy revenge" start to be carried out?

The Martyr Ezz Al-Din Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), carried out its martyrdom attacks, in revenge for the assassination of its most prominent leader, Yahya Ayyash, nicknamed "The Engineer", on January 5, 1996, by detonating his mobile phone.

Israel had what it described as a long bloody account with Ayyash, for supervising the preparation of martyrs during the operations of "Afula, Hadera, Dizenkov Street, Ramat Gan, Ramat Eshkol, Bus 18, Ashkelon, Café Avrovo, Mahana Yehuda Market" in which hundreds of dead and thousands of Israelis were injured. The years 1994-1995.

  • What are the most prominent holy revenge operations?

Israeli cities witnessed these attacks, which resulted in the killing of 60 Israelis, and the injury of 210 others, under the direct planning and supervision of Hassan Salameh, a Qassam leader who moved from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank to carry out the mission assigned to him by the Commander of the Brigades, Muhammad al-Deif, and Salameh is serving 48 life in Israeli prisons. , To accuse him of being responsible for the operations.

Majdi Abu Warda began these operations in Jerusalem, by blowing himself up inside an Israeli bus, killing 24 Israelis, including 13 soldiers, and wounding more than 50 others.

After 30 minutes, Ibrahim Al-Sarahneh carried out his operation at a crossroads in Ashkelon, killing 3 Israeli soldiers and wounding 30 others, among them many serious cases.

Then came Raed Al-Shaghanoubi, who blew himself up in an Israeli bus in Jerusalem, killing 19 of the Israelis and wounding 10 others.

Then Ramiz Ebeid from the Islamic Jihad came to blow himself up in the Dizengoff shopping center in central Tel Aviv, killing 13 people and wounding 120 others.

It is noticed from the review of these operations that the circle of targeting by the resistance and the planning apparatus that is preparing for them has expanded, which has caused an increase in the size of the Israeli losses, and an increase in confusion and frustration that the occupation security services suffer.

  • How did these attacks increase the balance of the resistance?

The "holy revenge" operations constituted a more painful way for Israel, as its borders did not stop in the occupied territories of 1967, but rather advanced and reached deep into Israel, and were considered a kind of balance of terror and deterrence with the occupier, and while the balance of action was defective in his favor by virtue of his arsenal and huge war capabilities, the extent of the horror And the panic that resulted from the "holy revenge" operations revealed the reality of the deterrence they had created among the Israelis.

The Palestinian resistance considered these operations as the most important option before its people at that stage, in order to prevent Israel from reaping the benefits of the military balance of power tendency in its favor, and the result is that the Israelis lost security in exchange for the Palestinians' lack of feeling the same.

  • Did the "holy revenge" succeed in losing the Israelis' security?

Israeli confessions about the results and consequences left by the "holy revenge" operations have continued, as they "lived dark days, when the buses began to explode, and the war was no longer within the borders or at its thresholds, but rather entered the house, and turned everything, and the result is that fear filled all parts of Israel," From getting on the bus, passing by a car, or standing at a traffic light. "

Israeli researcher Michael Frond says, "The martyrdom operation is not a horrific event in a location far from you until you forget it, but rather a fact that comes out and enters yourself. Here it is terrifying as hell, and because of it life in Israel has become unreasonable, and living in this situation is sufficient to cause a psychological breakdown for any Israeli." He planted fear in his future. "

  • Why did the Israelis fail to stop the "holy revenge"?

Despite the exorbitant human costs paid by Israel due to the "holy revenge" operations, its attempts have failed to make it absent from the reality of the conflict with the Palestinians. Perhaps the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin admitted in advance to his impotence in facing the martyrs whom Ayyash himself prepared and sent, saying to his critics, "What do I do for a person who wants to die?" "?

General "Gan Loft" admitted that the Palestinians "realize that Israel does not have an anti-martyrdom weapon, and if it succeeds in creating the missile system to counter the Scud missiles, it has no other option to confront the human bomb than to build walls!"

He added that the Palestinians "realized that suicide attacks are a strategic weapon that strikes a balance in front of the Israeli military superiority, and therefore decided to use them in an organized manner, because it achieves for them what no other weapon could achieve, as it gave them the ability to inflict severe and unprecedented losses on Israel, and brought them closer to achieving a strategic tie with it." ".

The head of the Shin Bet security service and former Minister of Internal Security Avi Dichter claimed that "the martyrdom operations that claimed most of the Israeli deaths constitute a strategic threat to Israel."

  • What are the most prominent Israeli confessions about the failure to stop operations?

The Israeli failure prompted the "holy revenge" operations by the Israeli media to address their newspapers and newscasts as follows: Either you solve the problem of suicide bombers, or go to hell!

The failed, failed government does not rule!

Death Brigades boom!

Hamas suicide bombers impose a curfew in Israel!

The Israelis taste the security failure on their bodies!

Israel: the most dangerous place for Jews in the world!

As a result of suicide attacks: Israel is on fire, security is undermined, the economy is deteriorating!

Suicide bombers determine our days and ages, follow our steps, hold our necks, and suck our blood!

Suicide operations carried despair from one generation to another! "

  • How were the martyrdom operations reflected on the Israelis?

The Israeli Eran Association for Psychological Counseling confirmed that the poor security conditions and the increase in "martyrdom operations" increased the number of Israelis seeking psychological counseling, an increase in depression cases, and an increase in the intake of sedatives.

A study prepared by Rotiel Gross from the Brookdale Institute stated that one in three Israelis suffers from a psychological disorder, after the "holy revenge" operations, and there has also been a significant increase in the percentage of those going to mental health centers.

Even an Israeli scientific conference was held under the title “Life under Shock,” whose scientific interventions included amazing information about what those operations did to Israeli society, the most dangerous being that 30% of them expressed their desire to immigrate outside Israel.

  • What is the relationship between "holy revenge" and Jewish immigration?

Not only that, but also the percentage of Jewish immigrants increased in an opposite way outside Israel, so 42% confirmed that they would like to leave it and reside in another safer country, and this was evidenced by the decrease in the sale of housing units inside the settlements In half.

According to data from the Israeli Central Statistics Center, 32,500 Israelis left Jerusalem, which witnessed the most serious attacks, compared to 19,220 who entered it.

The head of the Immigrant Absorption Committee in the Knesset, Kurt Avital, announced that for the first time in the history of the conflict, the Palestinians proved to the Israelis that the occupation is a costly matter. Even without advanced and modern weapons, they created a balance of terror, and it was not by chance that the number of immigrants from Israel exceeded the number of those coming to it. The average number of arrivals is 21,000, and the number of immigrants has reached 27,000.

The former mayor of Jerusalem, Teddy Kollek, also confirmed the failure of the Zionist project after those operations that caused the inability to bring Jews to Israel, saying, "One of us hardly believes what his eyes see, and he sees the large scale of reverse migration from Israel to the outside, as Jews do not care about living in a Jewish state," As far as it is about them to live in a safe and profitable environment. "