Together with sister operation Al-Aqsa TV, it is seen as one of the most influential outlets promulgating Hamas's narrative to residents of Gaza since the Second Intifada.
[2] The station is based in offices overlooking the Mediterranean Sea in Gaza City.
[3] The radio station, along with its sister operation Al-Aqsa TV "has massaged and promulgated the Hamas narrative" since the Second Intifada.
[3] According to the Israeli Shin Bet, Hamas has attempted to incite members in the West Bank to commit attacks via the radio station.
[4] In 2019, the Shin Bet discovered that an antenna located on a position shared by Hezbollah and the Lebanese Army in Marwahin, Lebanon, on the Israel-Lebanon border, had been broadcasting Al-Aqsa's signal from Lebanon into Israel.