Experts and analysts believe that the Israeli occupation, which destroyed 80% of the Gaza Strip, is seeking to reformulate the priorities of its goals during the next stage, but the Palestinian resistance is still cohesive and is launching rockets from the areas that the occupation claims to have controlled.
The military and strategic expert, Major General Fayez Al-Duwairi, expected that Israel will move during the next stage to what is called “surgical operations,” where ground operations will be limited, and aerial bombardment will focus on targeting the leaders of the Palestinian resistance.
He said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not achieve any military goals from the war he is waging on the Gaza Strip, and ground operations may stop within two to three weeks, but this matter is related to the American position, which Al-Duwairi described as varied.
CBS News reported, citing American officials, that Tel Aviv informed Washington of the completion of the current phase of intensive air strikes and a major ground operation within two or three weeks. However, an American official said that this does not mean the end of combat operations.
Commenting on what was reported by this network, Al-Duwairi confirmed that there will be a reformulation of the priorities of the objectives, and the Israeli forces will be used more specifically than is happening now, in addition to a direction to reduce escalation and bombing and provide safe places for the displaced, which is the direction that comes after the occupation destroyed 80% of the Gaza Strip. Gaza.
He added that the occupation army, which failed to achieve the goals it set, the minimum of which was rescuing detainees held by the Palestinian resistance, is now seeking to reformulate operations, as they will be based on updated information and in coordination with the joint operations room, which includes 5 international intelligence agencies (American, British, French, Italian, German) alongside the Israeli intelligence service.
Regarding whether there is new data on which Israel relies in its aggression against Gaza, Al-Duwairi explained that the intelligence services will not be able to determine the locations of the detainees, because the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) cannot place them in one place, and therefore they are distributed according to the vision of the battle with the occupation.
The military expert reiterated the performance of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades – the military wing of the Hamas movement – and the rest of the resistance factions in their fighting with the occupation soldiers, stressing that they are still cohesive and capable of managing the battle, and despite the occupation’s claim that it has controlled 40% of the northern Gaza Strip, rockets are being fired. Resistance reaches central occupied Palestine.
Speeches for media consumption
The head of the Department of Political Science at Hebron University, Dr. Bilal Al-Shobaki, indicated that the goals declared by the occupation have not been achieved, which is the return of detainees, and what they consider to be undermining the military capabilities of Hamas and the rest of the Palestinian factions.
He believed that the issue was no longer related only to the clashes inside the Gaza Strip between resistance fighters and occupation soldiers, but rather to the missiles fired by the Palestinian resistance from areas that the occupation claimed to have controlled.
On the other hand, he linked the new American statements regarding the relationship with Israel to internal and external pressures, as well as to the data on the ground, but Al-Shobaki downplayed the issue of the dispute between Washington and Tel Aviv regarding the war in Gaza, stressing that part of the American speeches such as the necessity of sparing civilians, and that There is a political horizon for the Israeli military operation, which is for internal media consumption and for Washington’s allies abroad.
He said that the American speeches are accompanied by reassurance to the Israeli occupation that there is American support for the continuation of the war, with advice to rearrange this process so that it is more accurate, noting that what happened during this day of targeting a school containing Tel Aviv Tribune correspondents confirms that everything that comes from Washington Israel does not take it into account.
It is noteworthy that colleague Samer Abu Daqqa, Tel Aviv Tribune’s cameraman, was martyred and colleague Wael Al Dahdouh, the channel’s correspondent, was injured during their coverage of the Israeli bombing of Farhana School in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.