Military expert Major General Fayez Al-Duwairi said that Israeli forces began a gradual withdrawal from the Gaza Strip since talk began about establishing buffer zones last week.
Al-Duwairi added during his daily analysis on Al-Jazeera that this withdrawal included the areas of Sheikh Radwan, Tal Al-Hawa, Sheikh Ajlin, Al-Rimal, Beit Lahia, and Beit Hanoun.
Earlier, Israel withdrew 8 brigades from the northern Gaza Strip and kept only 4, but these forces apparently received an order to retreat after the violent confrontations they fought in Shuja’iya, al-Daraj and al-Tuffah, according to the military expert.
The retreat began the day before yesterday, Sunday, due to the inability of these forces to advance, according to Al-Duwairi, who based his speech on the videos published by the resistance of the confrontations during the past two days.
Al-Duwairi said that the past two days witnessed radical transformations at the political and military levels, noting that the resistance took advantage of the retreat to inflict great damage on the occupation forces.
The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), succeeded in dragging the occupation forces into the “killing zones”, inflicting losses on them that forced them to accelerate their withdrawal in preparation for their rehabilitation and use elsewhere, according to the military expert.
In the Bureij area, the occupation forces were forced to retreat and abandon the areas they had entered in the eastern part, although they achieved some progress in the western and northwestern sides, but they also faced fierce resistance.
Al-Duwairi concluded that Israel is not able to continue the attack for a long time, because the resistance is still able to confront it in all areas, which prevents Israel from taking complete control, as is the case in the Juhr al-Dik area in the northern Gaza Strip.
