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In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful.

Praise is to Allah, Lord of the Worlds. I believe that there is no god but Allah, the Sovereign and the Manifest Truth, and that Muhammad, our master, is His servant, Messenger, and Last Prophet.

O Allah, confer Your salat and blessings upon Muhammad and the Family of Muhammad as You conferred Your salat and blessings upon Ibrahim and the Family of Ibrahim. You are Owner of Praise, Owner of Glory! And be pleased with Muhammad's good companions and all Your righteous servants and mujahidin.

Brothers and sisters, peace be upon you and the mercy of Allah and His blessings.

The past days, from Thursday to Thursday, saw substantial and intense developments, and here we are approaching one year since the start of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, with just four days left. As for the overall outcome of the year, we will discuss it in the coming speech, after one year has elapsed, Allah willing.

Regarding the developments and events of the past days, one incident stood out: It was the very serious crime the Israeli enemy committed by targeting the great mujahid, His Eminence Al-Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah, the Secretary-General of Hezbollah (May Allah be pleased with him), who is the martyr of Islam and humanity; the martyr of Al-Quds, the Al-Aqsa, and Palestine; the martyr of truth and justice; the martyr of all Muslims; and the martyr of Lebanon. I spoke briefly following Hezbollah's announcement of his martyrdom. Whatsoever we say, much remains to be said regarding the crime of targeting the martyr of Muslims, Islam, and humanity Al-Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah (May Allah be pleased with him), as well as regarding the incident and the objective behind this crime committed by the Israeli enemy.

The targeting represents a loss for the entire Islamic Ummah, given the significant role of Al-Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah (May Allah be pleased with him), his Islamic symbolism, and his global, regional, and local importance and influence, let alone his great role in confronting the Jewish Zionist threat and inflicting defeats on the Israeli enemy. This significant role held importance for Palestine, for Lebanon, and also for all neighbouring countries of Palestine and for the entire Islamic Ummah, since the Israeli enemy poses a threat to all Muslims. For over forty years, His Eminence Al-Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah, the Secretary-General of Hezbollah (May Allah be pleased with him), was present in the field of jihad, effectively confronting the Zionist threat with a distinguished position and outstanding performance. He led Hezbollah's jihadist path for over thirty years with remarkable, successful performance that was guided and supported by Allah (Glory be to Him), and he achieved great victories.

His distinguished role at the helm of Hezbollah, among the resistance masses, and in the Lebanese arena reached such a level of perfection owing to the perfection of his leadership and faith and to the values and morals he embodied. This was also due to the sound judgment, insight, awareness, wisdom, and high qualifications that Allah (Glory be to Him) granted him, and he was distinguished for able leadership.

Furthermore, his relationship with the masses and society was a close one. His concern for Hezbollah's popular base of support and for Lebanese society in general was significant, stemming from his own belief in the importance of people's role and the high appreciation, honour, love, and respect he had for society. In addition to his great focus on the jihadist and organisational structure of Hezbollah, he also had extensive activity and gave great attention to the masses at the level of the Hezbollah's popular base of support and on a broader scale. This was very clear in his activities, words, speeches, and decisions. His communication with people was strong; he ensured that matters were clear to them, and he made efforts to clarify the truths for the public. He considered people to be the crucial backbone in the battlefield and for taking action. Therefore, his relationship with the masses was strong, and so was their relationship with him. They reciprocated his love, respect, and appreciation, and they trusted him.

Furthermore, regarding his impact on the enemy and the enemy's supporters, the enemy acknowledges it, and so do its supporters. The Israeli enemy viewed Al-Sayyid Hassan as an enemy who possessed high ability to fulfil his sacred duties and responsibilities in confronting it. The Israeli enemy pays no attention to many Arab leaders, kings, and princes, and it considers them insignificant, with no weight, value, or importance. Indeed, it views them based on their genuinely weak and low status, whether at the level of leadership ability and wisdom or at the level of the cause, the position, their commitment to the causes of the Ummah, and the orientations that should be upheld when moving within the framework of the Ummah's causes, to name a few. In contrast, it has a different view when it comes to His Eminence Al-Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah, the Secretary-General of Hezbollah (May Allah be pleased with him). It recognises his able leadership, his courage, his faith, his insight, sound judgment, awareness, wisdom, determination, strength of will, steadfastness in his position, and more. Thus, it views him differently from how it sees most leadership figures in the Arab and Islamic worlds, whether at the official or popular level.

Likewise, the Israeli enemy's base of support, the criminal Zionist usurping settlers, used to take seriously any position announced by Al-Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah, his speeches, his promises, his warnings, and his threats. They knew his credibility and the credibility of what he announced, affirmed, or threatened. That is why they recognised him as a man of his word, a man of deeds. This was clear.

The Israeli enemy considered Al-Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah as a major obstacle and an active, conscious, intelligent, prudent enemy who was brave and steadfast and attained faith. Therefore, it was keen to target him. Moreover, the method it followed in targeting him was unprecedent in all its targeting operations. When we see that the Israeli enemy targeted the Secretary-General of Hezbollah, His Eminence Al-Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah (May Allah be pleased with him), with nearly eighty-five tons of the most lethal and powerful explosives, this level of targeting demonstrates the extent of the malevolence and intense enmity the Israeli enemy has towards him and how it views this great leader and his vital role. It also shows how determined it was to eliminate what it really considered a significant obstacle to satisfying its malevolence and ambitions regarding controlling Palestine, Lebanon, and this Ummah.

Additionally, the Israeli enemy displayed a sense of arrogance and conceit and boasted after his major crime of targeting Al-Sayyid Hassan (May Allah be pleased with him). Why does he not think seriously about other Arab leaders? Why did he publicly declare that what happened was a turning point and that he would seek to change the entire Middle East? When he said this, he meant that he had a programme with which he would target all peoples and countries of this Ummah. How dare he make such a statement? Why did he not take into account the kings, leaders, and princes when he easily considered that he would do whatever he wanted and desired and would execute his programme that aimed to enable the Israeli enemy to generally dominate these countries that the enemies often refer to as the Middle East, the entire Arab region and its surrounding Islamic countries? This mindset reveals how the Israeli enemy viewed Al-Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah (May Allah be pleased with him) as the biggest obstacle standing between it and this level of aggressive ambition. It hopes to seize, control, dominate, and subjugate this entire region and to control it in a way that serves its interests in addition to those of the Americans.

From early on, Al-Sayyid Hassan (May Allah be pleased with him) concerned himself with all the causes of Ummah and not only the Palestinian cause. What happened long ago in Bosnia could serve as an example. During the crisis of Bosnia and Herzegovina, he showed great concern for what was happening there, even though he was engaged in a heated battle against the Israeli enemy, with all its capabilities and sources, as it pursued aggressive and criminal endeavours aimed at completely controlling Lebanon. Despite all of that, Al-Sayyid Hassan devoted great attention to what was happening to the Muslim people in Bosnia, and he turned to help and support them, as well as to send cadres and members of Hezbollah to help the mujahidin in Bosnia, to name a few.

The same proved true regarding the causes of the peoples in the subsequent stages and all the way up to the just cause of the Yemeni people. At that time, the role of Al-Sayyid Hassan stood out as a clear, explicit, and strong role, providing all possible support and assistance, despite the significant sensitivity of the situation that had influenced many figures in the Islamic world. Indeed, they did not dare to adopt any position because they knew it would lead to serious consequences for them.

Additionally, he had a significant, distinguished, and pioneering role represented by his important efforts to thwart the conspiracy of America and Israel in inciting sectarian strife among Muslims. This dangerous and destructive project, which aims to provoke strife among Muslims and tear them apart, is one of the most dangerous American and Israeli conspiracies aimed at destroying the Ummah from within and tearing it apart even more than it is already fragmented internally. In fact, he was really keen to thwart that conspiracy and to foster closeness among Muslims, striving to build friendly and fraternal relations among them. His efforts in this regard were clear and well-known.

The Israeli enemy targeted Al-Sayyid Hassan (May Allah be pleased with him) with intense malevolence. It is filled with very deep animosity against him due to his significant role in confronting it, thwarting its conspiracies and inflicting major, humiliating defeats upon it. In fact, the Israeli enemy is filled with deep-seated malevolence towards His Eminence, the Secretary-General of Hezbollah. Indeed, the Israeli enemy is malevolent, aggressive, and criminal by nature. It moved to target Al-Sayyid Hassan out of a sense of vengeance and malevolence and for operational objectives that are highly dangerous and undermine the role of Hezbollah and the Lebanese front in confronting the Israeli enemy and in supporting the Palestinian people.

Since its inception and since the beginning of its jihadist march, the front of Hezbollah emerged as a powerful, highly effective front in confronting the Israeli enemy. It achieved major, well-known victories in all past stages, including in 2000 and in 2006. Then, during this current round of conflict with the Israeli enemy, spanning nearly a year, the role of the Lebanese front of support (Hezbollah front in Lebanon) has stood out as the primary role in supporting the Palestinian people. It is a heated, powerful, effective, and impactful front against the enemy.

Therefore, for the past decades (for more than forty years), the enemy has been in constant conflict with this front, attempting to eliminate it and put an end to it. It has been organizing conspiracies after conspiracies, engaging in rounds of confrontation with this front, directing aggression against the Lebanese people, and targeting Hezbollah, its leaders, and its cadres. Indeed, there have been rounds after rounds of confrontation and conflict. Despite that, the Israeli enemy has consistently failed, even when targeting specific leaders or prominent figures from Hezbollah or committing crimes of mass murder, acts of targeting the Lebanese popular base, or any form of conspiracy it plots. In fact, it has not acted alone but always with the Americans throughout all past stages: Everything the Israeli enemy has done, has been carried out with American support, participation, and backing in various and numerous forms. This is something evident.

The Israeli enemy is engaged in a heated conflict and major confrontation, targeting the Lebanese front since its very first day. This is the front that thwarted its scheme to occupy Lebanon after it had reached Beirut. In fact, the Israeli enemy was hoping that it would continue its full control over Lebanon and believed that it had secured complete dominance over Lebanon and that it had arranged all the necessary steps for that, politically and on all other levels. However, it was surprised by this distinguished, effective, strong, influential, and enduring jihadist movement. The more the enemy confronted it and conspired against it, the stronger, larger, more powerful, and more steadfast this movement became, achieving more victories and successes. This has been the case for more than forty years, during which there have been many heated events, significant incidents, major problems, and numerous challenges and difficulties. However, because of the fact that this Islamic Resistance (Hezbollah in Lebanon) originated from a faith-based foundation, had a just cause, believed in this cause, and based its actions on right foundations, Allah granted it more and more victories, and it reached a great and advanced level. So it became a powerful front, and it was present on that battlefield and that arena. In fact, it also had a remarkable presence in the Islamic arena, as a whole.

Indeed, Muslim peoples in Arab countries and beyond admire the experience of Hezbollah and its steadfastness, resilience, awareness, wisdom, cohesion, effectiveness, and influence. Hezbollah represents hope for the Islamic Ummah and an inspiring and successful model in its steadfastness, confrontation, actions, performance, and cohesion in the face of difficulties, hardships, adversities, and great sacrifices at the level of its leaders, members, and popular base of support.

Thus, the jihadist, Husseini march of Hezbollah has indeed emerged as a distinguished, pioneering, enduring, steadfast, and wise one. It truly possesses prudence, insight, wisdom, and steadfastness, as well. Moreover, it demonstrates successful, wise, and effective performance amidst a heated situation while confronting numerous conspiracies from various directions. In fact, in any jihadist march, due to the nature of the challenges experienced, some may face similar difficult circumstances to those experienced by Hezbollah. If other Arab armies or entities that are not driven by faith, awareness, and certainty had faced what Hezbollah has currently encountered, this could have had a significant impact on them, potentially leading to collapse. In fact, Arab regimes and armies collapsed in a matter of days when they confronted certain levels of hardship, pain, and sacrifices; incurred a certain level of losses; and faced a certain degree of difficulties that did not reach the level of what Hezbollah encountered. However, Hezbollah remains steadfast and resilient, and also its popular base of support continues to be cohesive and confident. Hezbollah is indeed a strong and effective front that cannot collapse in the face of these storms and hardships because when the faith-based drive is one that connects the jihadist ummah with Allah (Glory be to Him), His care, and His support, it is Allah Who instils reassurance in the hearts of believers, strengthens their hearts, and provides them with steadfastness, assistance, success, support, and care. Indeed, Allah's care is truly vast.

Anyway, in the light of the current situation, one of the enemy's objectives in targeting His Eminence Al-Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah, the Secretary-General of Hezbollah (May Allah be pleased with him), was to ensure the collapse and the elimination of Hezbollah's front, considering its significant role for the Palestinian cause first and foremost and for Lebanon and the region as a whole. The enemy perceives Hezbollah as a major obstacle; this is why the criminal Netanyahu after that targeting [of Al-Sayyid Hassan] spoke about gaining control over the Middle East, not limiting his remarks to Lebanon or Palestine. It is because he regarded Hezbollah and His Eminence, the Secretary-General, as an obstacle to this level of ambitions, which are aggressive ambitions aimed at having control, practicing usurpation, subjugating others, and leading aggression against them.

However, despite the significant loss due to the martyrdom of the Secretary-General of Hezbollah, His Eminence Al-Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah (May Allah be pleased with him), which is a major loss for the Islamic Ummah in general, and despite the very profound loss and the immense grief that swept across the Islamic world, not only in Lebanon and the popular base of support of Hezbollah in Lebanon, the march of Hezbollah is enduring, steadfast, deep-rooted, and effective.

Al-Sayyid Hassan (May Allah be pleased with him) belonged to Imam Hussein's march of faith and jihad, to the school of jihad and martyrdom. During all the previous stages, he consistently worked to instil Imam Hussein's spirit of faith and jihad as a [prevailing] spirit, thought, awareness, insight, and certainty. The same was also true regarding the practical and organizational levels and building the structure of the jihadist movement and its formation, the movement of Hezbollah. Therefore, the construction and structure of Hezbollah is cohesive; they [the mujahidin of Hezbollah] fight in the cause of Allah (the Almighty) as if they were a solid structure. This is the faith-based structure, the jihadist structure, and the strong and cohesive structure that does not disintegrate, scatter, or collapse in the face of storms, hardships, and sorrows. It is not a fragile, hollow, or weak structure. Indeed, Hezbollah and its masses are a cohesive and strong ummah in the face of challenges, storms, and dangers.

Therefore, they remained cohesive in the face of that large scale of targeting (even before the targeting of Al-Sayyid Hassan), such as the targeting carried out by the Zionist criminal enemy through the assassination of prominent leaders and cadres in Hezbollah, and the collective targeting that happened in the issue of pager-devices and walkie-talkies, through which the Israeli enemy attempted to kill thousands of Hezbollah members and Lebanese citizens. This is not to mention the targeting seen in these days through extensive destruction and acts of genocide, aiming to target residents in their homes and houses and attempting to destroy entire villages and residential blocks in the Southern Dahieh area. All this significant level of targeting has failed to affect the cohesion and steadfastness of Hezbollah. Additionally, when the Deputy Secretary-General of Hezbollah, His Eminence Sheikh Naeem Qasim, appeared and delivered his speech, it was a speech that expressed this confidence, this cohesion, this continuous steadfastness, and also this decision that cannot change because it is a decision driven by faith, which is what Hezbollah sticks to.

The Israeli enemy has turned to ground aggression, hoping that it would enjoy a clear path and perfect conditions and that Hezbollah's structure would be weak and fragile and would be collapsing. It believed that the Israeli army would manage to advance once again to invade Lebanon, or parts of Lebanon, as it expressed. Indeed, they arrogantly stated that Beirut was not on the table. When they state that Beirut is not on the table, this implies they have a high ceiling regarding what they intend to invade in Lebanon. However, they were surprised and faced a strong blow at the edges of Lebanon, at the borders with the occupied Palestinian territories, in the regions that are part of Lebanon's furthest territories. These areas may also include some sites that are still considered part of Lebanese territory but were previously under Israeli control.

At the borders, the mujahidin of Hezbollah dealt a powerful and severe blow to the Israeli enemy when it attempted to advance. The shock was evident as the Israeli enemy started talking about a catastrophe. Some Israeli media outlets described the blows suffered by the criminal Israeli army during its attempts to infiltrate Lebanon as a 'catastrophe'! They expressed shock and surprise.

Indeed, the reality of our brothers in Hezbollah, their resilience, steadfastness, and ability to inflict suffering upon the Israeli enemy, remains the same as it was in all those days that saw the enemy suffering failure at their hands. Since the martyrdom of His Eminence, the Secretary-General of Hezbollah, they have remained the same; in fact, they have become even more steadfast, determined, and dedicated in their effort for the sake of Allah and in fulfilling their sacred responsibilities in confronting and striking the Israeli enemy. After the martyrdom of the Secretary-General of Hezbollah, the mujahidin in Hezbollah have an even stronger motivation and drive than before. Their current state is not one of collapse, humiliation, incapability, failure, weakness, feebleness, or submission; rather, it is one of determination, resolve, and eagerness to fulfil the honourable and great position, and it demonstrates greater determination and courage in targeting and confronting the enemy. They are now even more eager to face the Israeli enemy than ever before.

The Israeli enemy does not understand this ummah. It does not understand these striving people with their spirituality, faith, and determination. They imagine that by committing such crimes against leaders, they will achieve their hope of causing the collapse of the rest of the components, the rest of the striving people. However, they will see, and they have indeed begun to see: They have started to shout and to use a different rhetoric.

After targeting His Eminence, the Secretary-General of Hezbollah, the Israeli enemy spoke with arrogance, expressing its satanic hopes. However, just a few days later, its rhetoric began to change. They started to talk about shock, surprise, and catastrophe as they faced the steadfast, resilient, determined, and striving fighters of Hezbollah. Therefore, the Israeli enemy must understand that it will never achieve what it hoped to achieve by targeting His Eminence, the Secretary-General of Hezbollah, or the leadership figures of Hezbollah. It must understand that Hezbollah remains cohesive in its structure, organization, and composition, standing firm on its position, and that it is still effective, influential, resilient, and capable of achieving victory and inflicting humiliating defeats on the Israeli enemy, with the help of Allah, the Almighty. And here we see the mujahidin of Hezbollah sending their messages to His Eminence the Secretary-General of Hezbollah, the honourable Al-Sayyid Hassan (May Allah be pleased with him), after his martyrdom, and saying to him: 'Just as you always promised us victory, we promise you victory once again.' This what they say; they persist and remain steadfast on this great path: the path of jihad, the path of achieving victories with the help of Allah, relying on Him, and seeking the means of victory.

Since the day when His Eminence Al-Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah, the Secretary-General of Hezbollah (May Allah be pleased with him), said, 'The era of defeats has ended, and the era of victories has begun,' he established this equation. Even after his martyrdom, he reaffirmed it by virtue of his sacrifices and effort. Through his dedication and work over these decades, and the blessings of his sacrifices, as he sacrificed himself for the sake of Allah (the Almighty), Allah will not waste his effort, his jihad, or his sacrifices; the tremendous impact of all that he did will remain felt in the journey of the mujahidin in Hezbollah, in the present and in the future. Therefore, the Israeli and American enemy and all those who lie in wait and the hypocrites should despair of achieving their satanic goals and hopes of ending the significant role Hezbollah plays in the Palestinian cause, in Lebanon, and in the Ummah.

That was all about this matter. The martyr's spirit, his beliefs, his effort, and the blessings of his sacrifice are enduring in the journey of Hezbollah, by Allah's grace.

To all Lebanese components as well, everyone, whether at the official level in Lebanon or at the level of the rest of the Lebanese components, should be reassured and have trust in Hezbollah, in its cadres, men, mujahidin, and leaders. It is a party rich in its mujahidin and leaders, who possess prudence, awareness, and steadfastness, and have vast and extraordinary experience. They are blessed with divine help and support due to their faith-based reality.

At this juncture, we affirm that we stand by our brothers in Hezbollah, their masses, and their popular supporting base, always supporting the Lebanese people. The axis as a whole will do the same, with the Islamic Republic of Iran at the forefront, as it recognises the seriousness of the situation today and seeks to assist and support Hezbollah with all necessary means. As for the Israeli enemy, no matter how much it escalates against Lebanon or persists in committing heinous crimes in Gaza, all Muslims have a great responsibility to have a clear and serious position in supporting the Palestinian people and the Lebanese people.

The humanitarian scene is another thing related to the Israeli aggression on Lebanon, as there is a massive displacement of hundreds of thousands of Lebanese people. Therefore, the issue requires attention at the humanitarian level from all Arab countries and in the Islamic world in general, at both the official and public levels. The responsibility primarily falls on the governments and regimes to assist the Lebanese government in taking care of the displaced, who may number over a million, in large numbers, hundreds of thousands, or even millions. A considerable and serious effort should be made to take care of them, accompanied with seriousness and a sense of responsibility.

The same holds true on the political and media fronts. What Lebanon is facing is a complete aggression, as the Israeli enemy is launching a full and comprehensive assault on Lebanon. Therefore, support for the Lebanese people in all its forms is necessary. This is a responsibility that should be fulfilled by our Ummah, its governments, and its peoples.

Regarding the other developments of the week, one of the most prominent developments has been Operation True Promise 2. The Islamic Republic of Iran executed the largest missile strike the Israeli enemy has faced since its occupation of Palestine, covering a swath of the occupied Palestinian territories all the way to the waters off Ashkelon. The Iranian missile strikes focused on Israeli military bases, as well as espionage centres and some military airports. According to what was stated, Iranian missiles hit their targets with a success rate of 90%. The arrival of the missiles was documented with video footage showing Israeli bases being targeted. Millions of Zionist Jews fled in extreme terror and clear panic to shelters, as did those who lead Zionist criminality. Jewish Zionist soldiers across various parts of Palestine experienced a state of fear.

The operation is an implementation of a commitment that the Islamic Republic made after the assassination of the great Islamic commander and martyr of the Islamic Ummah, Martyr Ismail Haniyeh, by the Israeli enemy; it is also a response to the Israeli enemy's crime of targeting Al-Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah and Commander Abu Al-Fadl of the Revolutionary Guard—these three martyrs (May Allah be pleased with them). It is also in response to the Zionist enemy's atrocities in Palestine and Lebanon.

The operation was successful, powerful, and devastating, and it was not hindered by American bases. The Americans had repeatedly declared that they would protect the Israeli enemy from any harm if the Islamic Republic intended to strike it. However, the Americans failed to provide the promised protection. It wasn't due to their negligence, but rather a failure and inability on their part. The American bases and the significant perpetration they made, along with their allies and tools, could not hinder it, nor could the Israeli air defence systems.

The operation was necessary and broke the terrorist chains and the intimidation that aimed at stopping and preventing it. The Americans, along with the Israelis, were making every effort to prevent the Islamic Republic from carrying out this strike and executing this operation. After the martyrdom of the great martyr, the martyr of the Islamic Ummah, Ismail Haniyeh—who was a guest of the Islamic Republic—both the American and Israeli sides were issuing threats and warnings and resorted to intimidation, portraying that the Islamic Republic of Iran's fulfilment of its promise and commitment to respond would be met an immediate, all-out war. The scale of the intimidation was clear, with the tremendous efforts made by all those connected to the American position, both Arabs and non-Arabs from various countries and nations, focusing on intimidation, terrifying, hindrance, demoralization, and so on.

When the operation was carried out, its significant importance also became apparent. Our Ummah always needs to possess the courage and decisiveness in taking the necessary action, which represents a realistic necessity and a responsibility of a religious, moral, and humanitarian nature. This in itself is very crucial. Taking action is also a necessary matter, as it is essential to deter and force the Israeli enemy to stop. Nothing can make the Israeli enemy stop committing crimes, seeking further escalation and aggression, and pursuing further genocidal crimes against the Palestinian people and the Lebanese people, except deterrent, powerful, and impactful operations. Deterring and stopping the Israeli enemy can never be achieved except through jihad, adopting a position, and taking decisive and effective action. Otherwise, its crimes will persist because it is a criminal aggressor and a persistent evil.

When the Islamic Republic of Iran executed this operation, this successful significant strike, it was very clear how much joy and happiness the oppressed peoples felt, with the Palestinian people at the forefront, even in Gaza. The happiness, joy, and delight were clear. As the hearts of the Zionists were filled with terror, fear, and defeat, the hearts of the Palestinian people, the Lebanese people, and the peoples of our oppressed Ummah were filled with joy, happiness, and delight. This was evident, and many video scenes were also shared, expressing this joy and happiness as many celebrated and expressed their delight.

With all these actions and the significant role of the supporting fronts in Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon, the Iraqi Resistance has extremely intensified its operations over the past few days. It is very clear that it is moving towards further escalation with high effectiveness. However, the Palestinian role is at the forefront; the Palestinian people are the most oppressed, the most sacrificing, and the most suffering people, and their dear mujahidin are in the first trench, engaged in a constant confrontation with the Israeli enemy. For one year, Gaza has been a heated front, where its mujahidin have displayed a great and distinguished example of patience, steadfastness, valour, and sacrifice. This also applies to the supportive base of the Palestinian population, which demonstrates an example in its cohesion and endurance despite the unprecedented suffering, the genocidal crimes perpetrated by the Israeli enemy, severe hunger, oppressive and total blockade, and suffering in all aspects. Despite that, resilience continues, and we are approaching the end of the year, with just four days left.

The fellow mujahidin in the Al-Qassam Brigades have carried out fifteen operations during these days, and some of these operations targeted thirteen Israeli military vehicles. The other Palestinian factions of mujahidin in Gaza, such as the Al-Quds Brigades and others, continued to execute effective, impactful operations that dealt blows to the Israeli enemy. Among the important and prominent operations was the heroic operation of Jaffa, which shook the Israeli enemy's entity and was carried out by the Al-Qassam Brigades.

Regarding the support front in the Yemen of faith, missile strike operations have been carried out, targeting Jaffa (which the enemy refers to as Tel Aviv), Um Al-Rashrash, and sites in the Negev Desert, to name a few. Some of these operations took place simultaneously with Operation True Promise 2. Also, operations have been carried out in the Red Sea, the Arabian Sea, and the Indian Ocean, and the number of targeted ships reached a total of 188. Additionally, more American armed reconnaissance drones MQ9 were shot down, bringing the total of this type of drones shot down to 11 during this year.

Both the Americans and the Israelis sought to escalate aggression against the Yemeni people. This week saw a number of airstrikes (thirty-nine airstrikes) carried out by the Israeli enemy and the Americans as well, in various operations. The Israeli enemy conducted operations on its own, as did the Americans, with most operations targeting the governorate of Al-Hudaydah. The Israeli enemy targeted electricity in Al-Hudaydah as well.

No aggression by the Americans or the Israelis can stop our operations, as we will continue our jihad. In addition, our operations go hand in hand with continues efforts to enhance our military capabilities. We continue within the framework of the fifth stage of escalation against the Israeli enemy in support of the Palestinian people and their dear mujahidin.

At the level of public activities, they continue to take place and are intensive.

• Regarding the mobilization effort, the number of those who received military training has reached more than half a million trainees.
• Moreover, mobilization activities, including manoeuvres, military displays, and military parades, have reached two thousand eight hundred and fifty-one.
• The marches, events, and public gatherings have also reached a very high level during this entire stage, spanning almost a year, totalling 739634 between marches, events, public gatherings, and so on.

To us and our dear people, adhering to our position and continuing our effort, operations, and escalation is a matter of faith commitment. It is also part of jihad in the path of Allah (the Almighty), a sacred religious obligation, and a practical necessity, as well. As for those who do not take the right position—the position imposed by our religion and Islamic affiliation and also aligned with our interests as a targeted Muslim ummah by its enemies—they are inevitably putting their future at risk. This is what many peoples and countries will discover in the coming days. They will later realise how grave their mistake was and how severe the consequences of neglecting this sacred responsibility were when they experience the dire consequences of that and how that emboldened their enemies and increased their greed.

We are confronting the Israeli enemy and its partners (America and Britain), who are a source of evil to the Ummah and a front for crime, aggression, injustice, and tyranny. They are also an extension of a deviant, misguided, criminal path, opposed to the divine message: They are the successors of the killers of prophets and the righteous. How could they ever be a blessing, as the criminal Netanyahu claims?! Since its first day (since the British mandate, its sponsorship of this criminal, occupying, usurping entity, and its empowerment of this entity to occupy Palestine), it has been built on all forms of crime: murder, rape, injustice, aggression, occupation, looting, and usurpation. All of its conduct is criminal, savage, and horrendous, utterly incompatible with human values, laws, systems, norms, or religions. Indeed, it is the embodiment of criminality, savagery, tyranny, and aggression.

Allah (the Almighty) has sufficiently told us about these criminals in the Holy Quran, and we see clear evidence and testaments of this before our very eyes. Their extremely horrific, savage crimes—killing children and women, the elderly and the young, starving people, and deeply inhumane, degrading, and savage practices—are evident in their actions, leaving no need for further explanation. These atrocities are documented in videos before the very eyes of the world.

 Allah (Glory be to Him) says about them, {'And you see many of them hastening into sin and aggression'}[Al-Ma'idah 5:62], and He says, {'Say, "Shall I inform you of [what is] worse than that as penalty from Allah? [It is that of] those whom Allah has cursed and with whom He became angry and made of them apes and pigs and slaves of taghut. Those are worse in position and further astray from the sound way"'}[Al-Ma'idah 5:60]. They are part of this deviant, criminal path that incurred the wrath of Allah, a path that is cursed by Allah and has nothing to do with any human or religious values. Allah says about them, {'You will surely find the most bitter towards the believers to be the Jews and those who associate others with Allah'}[Al-Ma'idah 5:82]. They stand out as group number one in their enmity, hatred, criminality, and tyranny against our Ummah as a whole; therefore, taking a position is essential, and it is a religious duty.

As we are approaching one year since the start of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, in response to Allah (the Almighty) and in loyalty to the Palestinian people and their dear mujahidin, as well as in loyalty to Al-Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah (May Allah be pleased with him), to Hezbollah, the mujahidin of Lebanon, and the Lebanese people, and for the sake of affirming our commitment to our position and the continuation of carrying the banner of jihad, I call upon our dear people to take to the streets in millions tomorrow, Friday, by the will of Allah (the Almighty), in the capital, Sanaa, and in the other governorates and districts, according to the approved arrangements.

We ask Allah (Glory be to Him) to grant us all success to gain what pleases Him, have mercy on our virtuous martyrs, heal the wounded among us, and set free our captives. We also ask Him to hasten victory and relief for the mujahidin in Palestine and Lebanon, for oppressed Palestinian people and Lebanese people, and for our Ummah as a whole. He is All-Hearing!

Peace be upon you and the mercy of Allah and His blessings.