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Israeli Media: Hamas is The Only Power That Can Rule Gaza

CrossFireArabia
January 21, 2025

Israeli Channel 12 acknowledged that the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, is still the only force in the Gaza Strip capable of ruling, 15 months after the war.

Speaking about “the next day,” the channel acknowledged Israel’s failure to achieve its goals in the war, as the objective was “not to allow Hamas to rule or return,” but “we saw yesterday it still has this ability.”

This views was expressed in referrence to scenes of the Qassam Brigades coming out among the people and handing over the Israeli female prisoners.

The TV channel concluded that there is no other force in Gaza with the same ability, which allows Hamas to return, and restricts the ability of the Israeli army to operate, according to its expression, so “Israel cannot even evade this goal now.”

In a related context, Channel 12 estimated that Israel will not resume fighting in Gaza, stressing that the Palestinian resistance can continue fighting forever, and is capable of “recruiting” individuals.

Likewise, the military affairs analyst for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Amos Harel, commented on the appearance of hundreds of Qassam Brigades members a few kilometers away from the place where the Israeli army forces were located, saying, “Hamas demonstrated its military strength and signs of civil rule by displaying it.”

The Israeli military correspondent for Channel 12, Lila Shoval, said that the agreement on the ceasefire in Gaza does not guarantee the achievement of the two goals that Israel has set for itself, that of eliminating Hamas and recovering the prisoners according to JO24.

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Hamas Lone Fighter Knifes Four Israeli Soldiers

CrossFireArabia
December 19, 2024

CROSSFIREARABIA – One Hamas fighter, killed an Israeli officer and three other soldiers on the streets of Jabalia, north Gaza in a turnaround posture in this bloody war on the Palestinian enclave.

The killing, Thursday morning, was a face-to-face operation as the lone Izz Al Din Al Qassam fighter first stabbed the Israeli soldiers, took away their weapons and armor and quickly vanished from the scene.

This is the first-time that a direct man-to-man fighting at zero-distance between Palestinian fighters and Israeli soldiers since the onslaught on Gaza that began soon after 7 October, 2023.

Hamas announces that one of its fighters managed to "stab" an Israeli officer and 3 soldiers from point zero, and finished them off and seized their weapons in Jabalia camp. pic.twitter.com/sNTUWpQf0M
— S p r i n t e r (@SprinterFamily) December 19, 2024

Observers see such a move as a major qualitative step of hand-to-hand combat. Up till now, and it has been 14 months of fighting, Hamas and Palestinian resistance operatives have been fighting the Israeli army from a distance – throwing grenades, missiles at their tanks, troop carriers and/or bulldozers. They were not operations as this latest one.

Through the Hamas’s operatives, the latest action was different, aiming for bodily contact which has never done before, on the Gaza Strip, nor at anywhere else in the world, one analyst pointed out for the latest “knifing” with a blunt instrument, showed the Palestinian resistance were now daring the Israeli soldiers to come and fight in open warfare.

It is seen as a major development in what has long been turned into a war of attrition on the streets of Gaza between Hamas fighters and the Israeli army.

It shows the spunk of the Palestinian fighters after Israeli militarily in-roaded north Gaza since 5 October 2024 and had been trying to end the presence of the Palestinian resistance there but to no avail. Of course, the Israeli army including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu keeps boasting about the end of Hamas being near but what is happening on the ground doesn’t show that at all but the complete opposite.

Also on Thursday, a Hamas sniper killed an Israeli soldier in the Twam residential neighborhood, north of Gaza city to the west of Jabalia. He was part of a group of soldiers on top of a building, when he was sniped and instantly killed.

Al-Qassam Brigades: This morning, one of the Al-Qassam fighters managed to stab a Zionist officer and 3 soldiers from point zero, kill them, and seize their personal weapons in Jabalia camp, north of the Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/rb1dBN6Kfx
— Royal Intel (@RoyalIntel_) December 19, 2024

Brigadier-General Elias Hanna – a military analyst in Al Jazeera – say the latest military combat proves the Palestinian resistance have not been beaten but on the contrary, they are continually changing their military tactics and ways of fighting. He added it reflects the transition to a new qualitative phase of zero-distance targeting.

He added that from now on they could be aiming to fight man-to-man if indeed such operations as that happened in Jabalia continues to occur on a frequent basis from now on.

Israeli soldiers have been steadily falling over the past months because of the resistance despite the fact that there are currently three Israeli military divisions operating in the area as Hanna points out.