🔽About something that Israel will never forget, called the Netzarim complex, or Here we are back, Netzarim.”

On October 24, 2003, two fighters infiltrated the Netzarim settlement in central Gaza

They killed three Israeli soldiers. Samir Fouda was martyred in the operation, while the second fighter was able to withdraw. The operation was joint between the Al-Quds Brigades and the Al-Qassam Brigades.

The Netzarim settlement was built not only as a settlement bloc, but also as a fortified military base, and was at the heart of the “Five Fingers” settlement project after 1967.

, which consists of 5 settlement blocs on the Gaza Sea and up to Sinai, and Netzarim formed the base for the Israeli military and settlement concentration in Gaza due to its unique location, which separates northern Gaza from its south

Therefore, the description of the enemy Prime Minister at the time, Ariel Sharon, in his famous sentence, “Netzarim” was true
"Like Tel Aviv," in short, this is the Israeli understanding of every settlement it builds anywhere.

The most important event in the awareness of the generation of the Second Intifada was the success of Al-Qassam in blowing up the Orhan military site, or the Mahfouz checkpoint as we call it, through a military tunnel and using a ton and a half of explosives.

The Chechen's word in the tunnel still rings in our ears to this day

“Your fortresses will not prevent you, and your separation walls will not prevent you. The separation wall theory has fallen before, and here we are, God willing, we will drop the theory of settlements and impregnable fortresses.”

But what we did not know is that the two martyrs’ operation that I mentioned at the beginning of this article will be the most important event in the awareness of the enemy army leaders.

The Shin Bet published documents in 2017 indicating that the operation accelerated Sharon’s decision to withdraw from Gaza. In short, Sharon saw some of the future that day,

[Ak]