Hamas’s surprise attack on Israel is directly linked to Iran’s efforts to sabotage efforts to normalize relations between the Jewish state and Saudi Arabia, experts told The Post Saturday.
“While we will certainly learn more in the coming days, it is clear that Iran — which funds, trains, aids and abets Hamas — wants to send a big statement to Arab countries not to align with Israel,” Morgan Ortagus, a spokesman for for the US State Department from 2019 to 2021, told The Post.
“Iran seeks to destroy peace and stability in the Middle East.”
Tehran, which has long helped Hamas with financial and military support, openly cheered the Islamist militants, with Saturday’s attack killing more than 200 Israelis and wounding 1,000.
Yahya Rahim Safavi, the top military adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, pledged on Saturday that the Isalmic Republic would support the terror group — which it funds and supports — “until the liberation of Palestine and Jerusalem,” according to Politico.
Experts believe Iran played a key role in Saturday’s Hamas attack in an effort to destroy Israeli-Saudi relations. WAEL HAMZEH/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Hamas has killed more than 200 Israelis and injured 1,000 in Saturday’s attacks. ZUMAPRESS.com
The unprecedented incursion comes amid recent talks aimed at normalizing relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia, Tehran’s regional rival, as part of a trilateral agreement with the United States. The agreement that has been formed aims to increase stability in the Middle East, reject the Iranian nuclear threat and increase economic cooperation.
Amid the talks, Khamenei warned any country that tried to normalize relations with the Jewish state “will suffer a loss.”
Former US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, who was in Jerusalem on Saturday, agreed Iran may have played a key role in Saturday’s attack, noting Tehran had just received cash from the United States as part of a possible prisoner exchange for the company. . terrorist proxy, but cautions there are “many pieces.”
A tripartite agreement developing between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the United States will increase stability in the Middle East, counter Iran’s nuclear threat and increase economic cooperation. AP
Friedman said the timing of the Hamas attack – close to the 50th anniversary of the 1973 Yom Kippur War – certainly had symbolic significance, but added that amid talks about normalizing relations with Saudi Arabia, Hamas may feel “the need to show that they are still relevant and they don’t like to be ignored.”
Hamas military commander Muhammad Deif has claimed that the Islamist militants launched their surprise attack on Israel on Saturday, dubbed “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood,” in retaliation for the Jewish state’s recent “desecration” of the Al-Aqsa Mosque. , which is located on the Temple Hill. in Jerusalem.
Deif claimed the attack was in retaliation for the 16-year blockade of Gaza, Israel’s incursion into the West Bank and violence at Al Aqsa – Jerusalem’s disputed holy site.
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