The military and strategic expert, Colonel Hatem Karim Al-Falahi, said that the current intensity of fighting in the Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip means returning to square one of the Israeli ground invasion.
Al-Falahi explained – during his analysis of the developments of the military situation in Gaza – that these battles confirm that the Palestinian resistance has largely regained its strength in the northern regions after the withdrawal of the occupation forces.
He pointed out that the occupation’s withdrawal gave the resistance factions great comfort in returning to those areas and building an integrated theater of operations, citing the qualitative attrition operations that took place over the past two weeks.
Colonel Al-Falahi pointed out that confrontations are raging on all fronts of Jabalia, despite the occupation’s attempt to disperse the resistance factions by opening new fronts of incursion.
He warned that the current battle confirms that the resistance factions possess something that the Israeli army does not possess, which withdrew the Givati Brigade from Rafah to the south, and may push it to Jabalia in the coming days.
According to the military expert, the battles are still raging and the occupation army may send additional reinforcements, pointing to the human losses suffered by Israeli forces in the Jabalia camp after the Qassam Brigades lured them into a tunnel and left them dead and captured.
He explained that the occupation army has always promoted “military pressure” to regain its prisoners and end the rule of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), and previously claimed that 18 battalions belonging to the military wing of Hamas had been destroyed out of 24.
Al-Falahi concluded that the battles confirm the failure of the occupation, not only at the strategic and operational levels, but also tactically, when an Israeli force was captured, wounded and killed – yesterday, Saturday – in one of Jabalia’s tunnels.
He added, “When you come to liberate prisoners and find lifeless bodies and cause losses exponentially, this confirms that the occupation has failed to deal with this issue.”
The strategic expert continued, saying, “The Israeli narrative that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to pass is false, and absolute victory is baseless.”