The Palestinian resistance dealt painful blows to the Israeli occupation, through operations described by analysts and military experts who spoke to the program “Gaza… What Next?” It is qualitative and reinforces the state of fracture and brokenness within Israel.
The Al-Qassam Brigades – the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and the Al-Quds Brigades – the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement – carried out several attacks on Friday against the Israeli occupation forces in the cities of Rafah (south of the Gaza Strip) and Gaza. In return, the Israeli army admitted the killing of 4 soldiers from the Nahal Brigade.
The Israeli Broadcasting Authority confirmed on Friday that 15 rockets were fired from Rafah at Beersheba and its environs.
Commenting on the operations carried out by the Palestinian resistance, military and strategic expert Major General Fayez Al-Duwairi believes that these operations reflect the way the resistance managed the battle with the occupation army, saying that they suggest a return to the first day of the ground invasion in the northern region of the Gaza Strip.
Through its operations, Al-Duwairi adds, the resistance sent clear messages with multiple contents. The first was directed to the Israeli interior, stating that your leadership did not undermine the capabilities of the Hamas movement and the rest of the factions after months of war. The second was directed to the Israeli army, specifically Chief of Staff Herzi Halevy, to tell them that they had failed to achieve their goals. .
Al-Duwairi confirms that the Palestinian resistance is still fighting in the areas that the occupation army entered 6 months ago, and its brigades in Rafah are more capable and ready to fight, which it proved through the operations it carried out – Friday – by firing missiles from a distance of 40 kilometers, stressing that it is capable of It launches missiles with a range of 60 to 75 kilometers.
According to the academic and expert on Israeli affairs, Dr. Muhannad Mustafa, the resistance operations reinforce the internal debate in Israel, which says that the war on Gaza has exhausted all military capabilities, and that Israel does not have any other military alternatives in order to achieve its goals, and it has failed in them militarily and strategically.
The resistance was not harmed
While Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu portrayed his military operation in Rafah as the only way out of his crises and his military and political failure, he was surprised today by the operational momentum of the resistance in Gaza, says political and strategic analyst Saeed Ziad, where the Al-Qassam Brigades placed a large part of the Israeli forces in complex ambushes, with precise strikes. It is painful and has not yet reached Salah al-Din Street.
The operations of the Qassam Brigades refuted Netanyahu’s claims that he had eliminated or neutralized the resistance’s missile capabilities and that the cities of the interior were no longer vulnerable to these missiles. Ziad said that the resistance’s launching of missiles from the heart of Rafah and from other cities gives an indication that it is capable of increasing the momentum of the missiles it is launching towards Israeli towns and delivering them. For other ranges.
He concluded that the scenes of sniping, bombing of vehicles, and movement in tunnels taking place above the square confirm that the resistance was not harmed or harmed, which is something that reinforces Israeli despair.
Regarding the relationship of what is happening in the field to the negotiations between the Palestinian resistance and Israel, the political and strategic analyst indicated that Netanyahu wants a deal that will free the Israeli prisoners and give him a period of calm to solve his problems without ending the war, while the resistance wants a deal that leads to the end of the war, that is, there is a big difference between the two scenarios. .
In the view of the academic and expert on Israeli affairs, Dr. Muhannad, there is a conviction among the Israelis that negotiations are the last opportunity to recover their prisoners, and that the military operation in Rafah will end this issue.