Military and strategic expert Colonel Hatem Karim Al-Falahi believes that the Israeli military operation in the Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip did not add anything to the strategic goals declared by Tel Aviv in its war on the Strip.
Al-Falahi explained – in his speech to Al-Jazeera – that the Jabalia operation, which has been ongoing for more than 83 days, did not reach the Israeli prisoners detained in Gaza, but it separated the areas north of the Strip from Gaza City.
According to the military expert, the occupation army systematically destroyed the infrastructure in Jabalia camp through aerial and artillery bombardment, in addition to bombing operations with explosive robots.
Last Sunday, the Israeli newspaper “Haaretz” said that the Israeli army completely destroyed about 70% of the homes and buildings in the Jabalia camp, and likened it to a “ghost city”, after it had been “one of the most crowded places in the world” until the war.
The military expert points out that the occupation army is carrying out new incursions into Jabalia, “which is being met with Palestinian resistance operations by targeting foot or engineering forces, in addition to hitting and blowing up military vehicles.”
Yesterday, Thursday, the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), announced that its fighters had targeted an Israeli foot force of 7 soldiers with a high-explosive device in the Jabalia camp, confirming that all of its members had been killed or wounded.
Al-Qassam also announced that it had targeted an Israeli engineering force with an anti-fortified TPG shell as it advanced to blow up a number of homes west of the Jabalia camp.
On October 6, the occupation army announced the start of a new military operation in the northern Gaza Strip, under the pretext of “preventing Hamas and the resistance factions from regaining their power in the region.”
Since then, 35 Israeli soldiers and officers have been killed in battles in and around the camp, and hundreds of them have been wounded, according to the military affairs analyst for the Haaretz newspaper.
This is the third time that the Israeli army has invaded Jabalia camp, after the first time in December 2023, and the second time last May.
Late last month, the Israeli Channel 13 said that the fighting in the Jabalia camp and Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip was “harmful and difficult,” and estimated that there were about 200 Hamas resistance fighters in Jabalia, “fighting to the death.”
