On October 7, at least 1,300 people were murdered in a Hamas attack on Israel. This Monday, a senior Israeli source informed CBS News that he believes Yahya Sinwar and El Deif were behind the operation.
“It’s Sinwar and Deif,” Ron Dermer, Israel’s new war cabinet’s minister of strategic affairs, told CBS News in a Tel Aviv interview. There are two of us in Gaza. They are the ones who planned and executed the attack. They do, however, have Iran’s assistance once more. They have the necessary resources to succeed. They are backed up by military forces. They have access to resources such as instructional materials and communication networks, as well as political support. Many of the Middle East’s problems may be traced back to Iran.
Lt. Col. Richard Hecht, an Israeli military spokesman, provided more observations about Sinwar during Saturday’s briefing.
The objective is “in our sights,” Hecht said on Saturday. “He is a dead man walking and we will get to that man.”
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Officials in the Biden administration have stated since the beginning of the war that Iran has supported Hamas with material, financial, and logistical support for a long time, but that no evidence linking Tehran to the attacks has been uncovered.
According to US officials, evidence indicates that Iran was taken off guard by Hamas’ onslaught on Israel, which resulted in the deaths of at least 1,300 people and the injuries of 3,200.
Dermer believes it is irrelevant if Iran knew about the “timing of this specific” Oct. 7 incident because intelligence shows that Iran supplies the vast majority of Hamas’ financing.
“There’s a question of whether Iran knew about the timing of this specific attack,” Dermer went on to say. Iran, on the other hand, backs Hamas. Iran funds 93% of Hamas’ military operations. Iran and Hamas frequently consult with one another. The question of whether they were aware that the attack would take place today, tomorrow, next week, or in two weeks is different. We cannot carry out this strike without Iran’s assistance. I can assure you of that.
When asked if Israel intends to attack Iran, Dermer stated that the Islamic Republic is a “country that works every single day for Israel’s destruction.”
“So we will do whatever we have to do to defend ourselves, to prevent such a regime, who denies the first Holocaust — and would like to perpetrate a second one — to deny such a regime from developing nuclear weapons,” Dermer went on to say.
He also highlighted connections between the October 7 event and the 9/11 attacks.
“When Israel loses 1,300, when 1,300 people are murdered, that’s like 50,000 Americans being murdered on a single day,” he said. The current figures are comparable to twenty 9/11 attacks. And, unlike the events of 9/11, we are not dealing with a terrorist organization based hundreds of miles away. Terrorists are operating in our own backyard, only meters from people’s homes.
When asked about the safety of Gaza’s almost 2 million people, Dermer claimed that any civilian casualties were the fault of Hamas. According to the Gaza Health Ministry, Israel’s punitive counter-strikes on Gaza have killed 2,670 Palestinians and wounded 9,600 since the conflict began.
