Jihadis Celebrate October 7 Anniversary: Destroy Israel ‘by All Means Necessary’

JABALIYA, GAZA STRIP - JANUARY 2001: Hamas militants, carrying replica rockets and wearingReza photo

by FRANCES MARTES
October 7, 2024

The jihadist terrorist group Hamas – and fellow Iran-backed outfits such as Hezbollah – celebrated the one-year mark since the atrocities committed against civilians in the Hamas siege of Israel on October 7, 2023, calling for the extermination of the Israeli people and heralding Iran for its support.

Hamas thugs invaded Israel from their stronghold in Gaza in the early morning hours of October 7 a year ago on Monday, committing widespread crimes against humanity and ultimately killing an estimated 1,200 people. The terrorists invaded residential communities, breaking into the homes of sleeping families and killing them all. Israeli rescuers found dead babies in some of the homes. Significant evidence indicates that the terrorists tortured and raped their victims, then desecrated their corpses after their deaths. On several occasions, the jihadis stole the phones of their victims and uploaded horrific images of their atrocities to the social media accounts of the dead.

At a music festival that morning, Hamas jihadis massacred attendees, in some cases during brutal gang rapes. Hamas terrorists also abducted more than 200 people; of those, the Israeli government believes 101 hostages remain in captivity a year later.

While a somber day to honor the fallen in Israel, Hamas leaders used the occasion to celebrate the slaughter.

“Al-Aqsa Flood returned the occupation [Israel] to square zero and threatened its existence,” Hamas “political” chief Khaled Mashal said in a statement on Monday, referring to the October 7 massacre by the jihadi name for it, the “al-Aqsa Flood.”

Mashal justified the campaign against sleeping civilians in their homes by calling it “a natural response to the occupation and its accelerating plans for settlement, siege and aggression against Al-Aqsa,” the mosque in Jerusalem.

Mashal also claimed that Israel was “fully defeated” in the war it declared against Hamas on October 8, omitting the many losses Hamas has incurred in the self-defense operation ongoing in Gaza. Mashal himself became the “political” leader of Hamas after his predecessor Ismail Haniyeh died in an explosion in his lodgings in Tehran, Iran, while in the capital city to attend the inauguration of President Masoud Pezeshkian in July.

Similarly, another senior Hamas terrorist, Khalil al-Hayya, issued a statement celebrating the “heroic acts” of terrorists who gang-raped music festival attendees and slaughtered children.

“A year later, our people continue to write a new chapter of history with their resistance, blood, and steadfastness,” al-Hayya declared, according to the Iranian propaganda outlet PressTV.

Al-Hayya also applauded Hamas’s patrons in Iran, celebrating a largely failed missile barrage by Tehran against Israel last week as “meteors filling the skies over the occupied Palestine.”


Beyond statements, Hamas terrorists marked the occasion with a rocket barrage out of Gaza targeting Tel Aviv and its surrounding communities. Hamas claimed in a statement that it had successfully penetrated “deep inside the occupation,” though Israeli authorities clarified that the rockets had caused little damage and “lightly injured” two people, according to the Times of Israel.

Hamas’s terrorist allies also published statements on Monday applauding the mass killing of innocents a year ago.