Khaled Meshaal, the leader of Hamas, engaged in a telephone conversationwith Maulana Fazlur Rehman, the head of Jamiat-e-Ulema Islam-Fazl (JUI-F),addressing the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict, as reported by ARY News.
In an official statement, Aslam Ghauri, the spokesperson for JUI-F,conveyed that Khaled Meshaal updated Maulana Fazlur Rehman on the currentsituation between Palestine and Israel.
The JUI-F representative also noted that Meshaal commended JUI-F forcommemorating the ‘Al-Aqsa Flood,’ which marked a surprise attack launchedby the Palestinian group Hamas against Israel.
During this exchange, Maulana Fazlur Rehman expressed solidarity with thePalestinians during the conflict and affirmed their commitment to supportPalestinian brothers and sisters under all circumstances. He also calledupon human rights organizations to take notice of the Israeli brutalitiesin Gaza, which had resulted in the loss of over 1800 Palestinian lives.
Khaled Meshaal served as the leader of Hamas from 1996 until 2017 when hewas succeeded by the current chief, Ismail Haniyeh.
Israel characterized the recent devastating Hamas attack as its equivalentof the 9/11 event. The operation’s mastermind, Palestinian fighter MohammedDeif, referred to it as the ‘Al Aqsa Flood.’
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The term ‘Israel’s most wanted man’ was used in an audio tape broadcast asHamas launched thousands of rockets from the Gaza strip, signifying thatthe attack was a response to Israeli actions at Jerusalem’s Al Aqsa mosque.
The planning of this operation began in May 2021, following a raid onIslam’s third holiest site, which stirred anger in the Arab and Muslimworld. A source close to Hamas in Gaza estimates that this operation hasclaimed the lives of over 1,200 people in Israel.
Over two years later, the assault on Saturday became the most significantbreach in Israeli defenses since the 1973 Arab-Israeli conflict, leading toIsrael declaring war and launching retaliatory strikes on Gaza, resultingin the deaths of over 1800 people by the following Friday.
Mohammed Deif, a survivor of seven Israeli assassination attempts, the mostrecent occurring in 2021, seldom speaks and never appears in public.Therefore, when Hamas’s TV channel announced his forthcoming address onthat Saturday, it indicated that something of great importance wasunfolding.