The military and strategic expert, Major General Fayez Al-Duwairi, said that the occupation army is racing against time in the Gaza Strip, hoping to achieve a field achievement before the Christmas holiday to present to the Israeli community and the American administration.
Al-Duwairi stated, during his military analysis for Tel Aviv Tribune, that the field situation in the second phase of the Israeli ground attack on Gaza was “more ferocious, violent and destructive” than what happened in the first phase.
According to field developments, the military expert believes that the bill that the occupation army will incur in the Bani Suhaila area, east of Khan Yunis (south of the Gaza Strip), is much greater than what it paid in Gaza and its north.
He attributed his expectations to the fact that Khan Yunis is a sprawling city with towns and interstitial spaces, stressing that Bani Suhaila will be a major node and even a real graveyard for the occupation army, more than what is being exposed now in Juhr al-Dik, east of the central region, also ruling out control over it.
He added that this region is a major stronghold for most of the Palestinian resistance factions, and the elite forces are located there, citing the numbers revealed by the Al-Qassam Brigades – the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) – as well as the Al-Quds Brigades, the military arm of the Islamic Jihad Movement.
However, he revealed that the introduction of the Israeli armored forces will be harsh on the defending fighters, but the resistance plan is based on allowing them to enter and leaving them stationed behind dirt barriers, “and then comes the management of the battle.”
He stressed that there are fierce ground battles, “and the more the occupation enters, the deeper it gets into the hornet’s nest,” where the vehicles are disrupted by minefield explosions, forcing the soldiers to dismount, and then they are targeted with machine guns and a large number of them are finished off.
The strategic expert considered the death toll numbers announced by the occupation army in the Gaza battles to be “political numbers,” stressing that the numbers are much higher than that.
Regarding the differences between the battle of the north and the south in the Gaza Strip, Al-Duwairi explained that there is a similarity in the general framework of the battle through circumventing, encircling, and reaching Al-Rashid Street, but the details of the subsequent operations will be different from the battle of Gaza.
However, he stresses that the battle in the north is still difficult for the occupation army, and its faltering forced it to open a new front in the south and in the central region, especially since its first goal is to deport and displace Gazans, but Tel Aviv raises the slogan of “eliminating Hamas” in the media.
He said that the sniping operations carried out by the Qassam Brigades are one of the resistance’s methods, referring to the Qassam “Ghoul” rifle, which was named after the commander of the military manufacturing unit, Adnan al-Ghoul, and which carries standard specifications for high accuracy in targeting.