I remember when it happened and we were celebrating because
1) they broke through the fence using a bulldozer, a symbol of the occupation's destruction of Palestinian homes
2) Qassam fighters were coming down from the sky with nothing but assault rifles using makeshift gliders. They rained down from the sky to complete their mission.
3) They took out the zionist terrorist troops from entire military bases and accomplished military goals that hadn't been reached in decades, that hadn't been previously thought possible. Hundreds of zionist soldiers taken down, while in their military bases.
4) They had managed to reach Jerusalem according to some accounts from locals on that day (or it was a coordinated gesture by a local defense group). Still notable to me because for 2 decades Ghazzawi people have been under total siege, unable to go somewhere like Jerusalem to see our beloved Al-Aqsa, or the Holy Sepulchre Church.
This was all cause for celebration, an enormous military victory.
And then the Hannibal directive was issued and the occupation bombed its own 'citizens' and wiped out an entire suburb with its own tanks and helicopters and started churning out propaganda about rapes that it has continuously refused any investigation of (1, 2), and that there is no forensic evidence for.
October 7 was a largely successful military incursion against majoritarily military targets. The only failing on the Palestinian resistance came from them not realizing how willing the occupation was to massacre its own soldiers and 'civilians' (non-combattants) alike to keep them out of reach. And I don't blame them for making the mistake of humanizing the enemy in their perspective, more than they deserved.
