Israel is Losing in Gaza And Against Hezbollah – Military Expert

Military expert Dr. Nidal Abu Zeid said the success of the resistance in attacking the occupation’s military hardware and drones proves the falseness of the Israeli story of eliminating the Rafah Brigade.

He noted that after the withdrawal of the 98th Paratroopers Division from Gaza a few days ago, the only remaining Israeli forces were the 162nd Armored Division to fight in Rafah, the Alexandroni Brigade and the 8th Armored Brigade in the Netzarim axis; he added there were five divisions fighting at the beginning of the military operations.

Abu Zeid added to Jordan24 that the resistance is working at a calm pace to achieve three tactics, which are operations with political messages, as is happening in Rafah.

He indicated that low-intensity operations outline the features of a long phase of attrition which is what the Palestinian resistance group want to exhaust the remaining Israeli forces in Gaza, which have been fighting for 352 days.

Lebanon

Regarding what is happening in southern Lebanon, Abu Zeid said the Israeli forces have tried to maintain the initiative and want to accumulate achievements and not give Hezbollah the opportunity to reorganize its ranks in order to deprive it of the ability to launch operations towards the north of the occupied territories.

However he added, it seems that Hezbollah has begun to regain the ability to seize the initiative through the missile barrages it launched at dawn on Sunday and reached deep into northern Israel, reaching the Ramat David base and airport with dozens of Fadi-1 and Fadi-2 missiles. This shows that Hezbollah is rebuilding its capabilities, but it is still early to judge the full recovery of the decision-making chain.

Abu Zeid stressed that the operations with Hezbollah have moved from the scope of “geographical targeting” to those of targeting the party’s organizational structure, pointing out calculing profit and loss in this form of unconventional operations is not measured by the method of air strikes, but by calculating the points in which the resistance still excels, whether in Gaza or in southern Lebanon.

He added Israel did not achieve its goal by its operations against Hezbollah to return the residents of the northern settlements nor did it achieve its goals in Gaza by recovering the prisoners or create a new security reality.

The military expert indicated that the occupation is winning tactically but losing strategically.

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Dr. Marwan Asmar holds a PhD from Leeds University and is a freelance writer specializing on the Middle East. He has worked as a journalist since the early 1990s in Jordan and the Gulf countries, and been widely published, including at Albawaba, Gulf News, Al Ghad, World Press Review and others.

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