
Hamas Political Bureau member Osama Hamdan said in a January 20, 2025 show on Mayadeen TV (Lebanon) that he believes that the "Al-Aqsa Flood Battle" launched a "great war of liberation for the sake of liberating Jerusalem and Palestine." He said that this was not just a military operation or a war of self-defense, but rather a "qualitative leap" in the Palestinians' war of liberation, bringing it to a "new level of confrontation with the enemy."
Osama Hamdan: "We believe that the October 7 Al-Aqsa Flood Battle launched the great war of liberation, for the sake of liberating Jerusalem and Palestine. We believe that this was not just a military operation, and that the path of the 471 days [of war] has not been one of self-defense.
"Rather, it has been a qualitative leap in the Palestinian war of liberation, away from chasing the illusion of [peaceful] settlement processes, and from the attempts to confine the resistance to the land of Palestine, to a new level of confrontation with the enemy, which is the launching of the liberation war."