After four months of war against Gaza, the resilience of the Palestinians never fails to stun us. In the face of the Zionist genocidal war, the Palestinians just keep teaching us lessons of faith, science, military, and strategy from the “Al-Aqsa Flood.” Our nation is learning how to harness sources of strength and factors for victory from a people that have been besieged for decades.

A vital and impactful aspect of the ongoing war between Palestinian resistance and the “Israeli” occupation, now in its fourth month in a row, revolves around the spoils of war. These spoils stand as a crucial factor in the steadfastness and triumph of the resistance, despite the blockade from both friends and foes.

A closer look into the achievements of the resistance, notably the “Al-Qassam Brigades,” reveals the captured weapons, drones, and missiles from the Zionist occupation. Using reverse engineering principles in modifying these weapons underscores the Palestinian resistance's narrative of combat creativity on the battlefield. This involves dismantling the enemy's weaponry, analyzing its structure and operation, and subsequently reverse-engineering similar or even superior arms.

Since 2020, the “Al-Qassam Brigades” have been executing the “Qasd Al-Sabeel” project. This involves collecting substantial quantities of enemy shells that fell on the Gaza Strip, recycling them, and repurposing them in the manufacturing of explosives and missiles. This resulted in enhancing the resistance's arsenal, further amplifying its combat capabilities.

Just days ago, a video surfaced showing the “Al-Qassam Brigades” dismantling an “Israeli” reconnaissance drone of the “Hermes 900” model, which they had successfully shot down with an anti-aircraft missile east of Gaza City. Similarly, the “Al-Quds Brigades,” the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, shot down an “Israeli” drone of the “Sky Racing” model, employed for surveillance and information gathering.

The engineering units of the Palestinian resistance factions are able to dismantle these captured drones, examine their cutting-edge technology, and subsequently repurpose them for intelligence, reconnaissance, surveillance, information gathering, large-scale scanning, and precision target identification.

One of the notable successes in this field was the “Al-Qassam Brigades” in 2019, capturing technical devices and equipment containing significant secrets from the most important “Israeli” special unit called “Sayeret Matkal,” which was exposed by the resistance after infiltrating Gaza.

In previous years, the resistance discovered ammunition from a British warship sunk during World War I off the coast of Gaza. They dismantled it for use in their military industries as part of a long-term strategy for self-sufficiency in locally manufactured weapons. This justifies the resilience of the mujahideen for over 90 days, maintaining a high firing density and continuous ability to shell “Tel Aviv” and other enemy cities with artillery and missiles.

Last June, the “Defenders of the Frontiers Unit,” affiliated with the “Al-Qassam Brigades,” seized a surveillance balloon (estimated at $600,000) that had fallen in the town of Beit Hanoun, north of the Gaza Strip. The balloon was equipped with an integrated monitoring system containing high-resolution cameras capturing images around the clock, along with advanced technologies. It was considered a technological and informational acquisition for the engineers and scientists of the resistance.

According to the tactics of the “Al-Qassam Brigades,” following the completion of the data analysis phase of the balloon, the reverse engineering process begins. This process focuses on recycling the technological gains from the balloon, including cameras, monitoring, recording, and broadcasting devices. Additionally, efforts are directed towards manufacturing a similar balloon, like what they did with the drones.

Furthermore, the resistance's gains include weapon parts, rifles, communication devices, wireless equipment, tank chains, ammunition, and unexploded missiles. The unexploded missiles are recycled and later used to blow up five “Israeli” tanks in Jabalia, north of the Gaza Strip.

No doubt, the invaluable treasure of information and intelligence provided by these gains is priceless. It offers a strategic advantage for the factions of the resistance in the battle of minds and information, especially when Palestinians excel at employing reverse engineering. This enables them to recycle and redirect what they have gained from their operations on the battlefield, which is now in its fourth month.

This hidden aspect of the “Al-Aqsa Flood” may not have fully revealed its secrets yet, due to tactical and operational reasons. However, these gains for sure serve as a symbol of victory for the resistance, a strong morale booster for its mujahideen, and above all, a nightmare for the occupation forces, who witness their own weapons turned against them, harvesting the lives of their own soldiers.

Under the slogan “This is your merchandise returned to you,” it can be said that the resistance's gains from the occupation are one of the most crucial sources of weapons and ammunition, enabling Palestinian factions to endure and making Gaza a graveyard for the bloody invaders.

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