The Israeli Army Exhausts Its Goals in Gaza – Military Expert

Military and strategic expert Dr. Nidal Abu Zeid said the Israeli occupation army has reached a difficult stage in its military operations in Gaza, and has now exhausted its goals. He said this explains the latest bombing of one of the shelters for displaced persons in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip.

Abu Zeid added the occupation army is in rapid transformations with its war on  entering its 10th month. He told Jo 24 its no longer able to move in large areas as the resistance groups have succeeded in stripping them of the intelligence element and no longer able to receive information and targets of the fighting sectors they are dealing with.

The resistance also succeeded in exploiting the rubble of houses resulting from their massive destruction and turning them into an artificial obstacles to hinder the progress of the occupation military machine and the imposition of short and narrow firing ranges, concealment, and carrying out of ambushes and raids, as happened in Tal al-Sultan in Rafah and Shujaiya in the north.

Abu Zaid stated the enemy was planning to penetrate into Shujaiya and cross from it via the Baghdad Road to Omar Al-Mukhtar Road, so it could provide it with freedom of movement to the north, towards Al-Tuffah and west, towards Zaytoun, but after 10 days of fighting in Shujaiya, the resistance realized what the Israeli army was planning. Therefore, they started implementing several plans and models for combat and thus prevented the occupation forces from penetrating the Shujaiya neighborhood, whose area does not exceed two square kilometers.

Abu Zeid pointed out the reason for the difference in the form of fighting in Shujaiya from Rafah is related to the resistance’s ability to adapt to the geography of the area and succeeding in adapting the land to its advantage in confronting the Israeli occupation forces.

Abu Zeid pointed out that the occupation insists on controlling wide land corridors, such as the Netzarim Corridor and the Philadelphia Corridor, to achieve military and political goals for the possible transition to the third phase of the war, to launch its operations from these corridors supposed to provide it with good mobility.

 Politically also, the occupation is trying to strengthen its negotiating cards by negotiating over areas which it controls, he concluded.

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Itzhak Brik  Says Netanyahu is Lying on Gaza

Reserve Israeli general Itzhak Brik is a tireless critic of the government of Benjamin Netanyahu. He says “what is happening in Gaza is a big disgrace. We are losing a lot, and [Netanyahu] throws dust in the eyes,” the Quds News Network quotes him saying.

“The IDF realizes that Hamas cannot be defeated and soldiers are being sent to their deaths. Herzi Helevi wants to stay in his position until the end of his term; he is deceptive,” he adds.

“…officers, brigade commanders, and soldiers talk to me daily from the field, informing me of what is happening every minute. Yesterday, an officer spoke to me and said, ‘Brik, keep going strong with what you are doing.’ He is in Rafah now and told me that I am truthful in every word I say,” Brik told Israel’s Channel 7.

In reference to statements made by government about the war he said “they deceive the public and don’t tell the truth…we are not winning.  We do not confront Hamas, they don’t even stand in front of us.

All the statements that the army killed 100 here, and 200 there are incorrect. The [Hamas] fighters are underground; they come out, launch rockets and return. They are blowing up houses and using explosives against us and we are being killed,” the retired General said.

“There is no such closure of the tunnels that reach Sinai. These tunnels which they call Hames’s oxygen tubes have been used to transport weapons and combat equipment and the army claims to have controlled the Philadelphi Route and closed the tunnels is not true.

To close these tunnels, a canal 9km long and 50 meters deep must be dug because these tunnels are located 50 meters underground and all weapons and equipment come through them. The army does not intend to dig a canal 9km long and 50 meters deep,” he says.

Are they deceiving us? The army chief of staff said that the army is close to victory in Rafah, the Channel 7 interviewer interjects.

“They are clearly deceiving the public and lying to them,” Brik says.

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‘Two Years to Knock Out Hamas in Rafah’ – Israeli 12 Brigade Chief

Israeli Commander of the 12th Brigade says dismantling the Hamas structure in Rafah will take at least two years.

Hevri El-Baz said the task of eliminating Hamas is not something easy and this issue requires time and great military pressure that needs to be applied consistently on Hamas fighters operating in Rafah.

The Israeli army entered Rafah on 6 May and they are still battling Palestinian resistance fighters there with daily losses in lives and hardware.

The Israeli military commander says Hamas is waging a guerrilla war made up of independent groups which makes the task of dealing with it more difficult.

These groups are a broad representation of the Palestinian resistance movement including the Islamists Saraya Al Quds and the Abu Ali Mustapha Brigade of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

The Israeli commander warns whoever thinks that the sirens will stop within the next year is throwing sands in the eyes, adding fighting in Rafah is going slowly and Hamas fighters have studied us well.

The comments made by El-Baz are being uttered when there are at least nine brigades operating in this small city. Also, it shows the stiff resistance they are encountering from the different Palestinian armed groups.  

The commander is echoing the views made by many Israelis including Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari who openly said Hamas can’t be beaten in Gaza and whoever believes that is throwing sand in the public’s eyes.  

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Ex-general Warns of a ‘Holocaust in Israel’ If…

An ex-Israeli general said, Sunday, what is happening in the city of Rafah, is a disgrace to the Israeli army.

Israeli Radio quoted General Yitzhak Brik, a former head of the Israeli Army’s Complaints Committee, saying what is happening in Rafah is a disgrace, adding “the Israeli army is not actually fighting Hamas, but are bombing the roads and we are killing…” he said.

The ex-General continued that the Israeli army has been unable to deal with the Hamas movement, so how can it deal with the Lebanese Hezbollah?

Brik warned “any decision taken by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to attack Hezbollah will bring a holocaust on the [Israeli] state.”

According to Israeli reports, a large number of reserve officers in the army strongly criticized the political leadership after the killing of eight Israeli soldiers in their carrier in Rafah.

An Israeli website quoted one of the officers as saying: “The pattern of fighting in Rafah is flawed, and military operations should have been carried out faster and more decisively.”

Brik says the war in Gaza has lost its purpose and is continuing  only for Netanyahu’s benefit, pointing out the army’s capacity had been reduced by 20 years until it is no longer able to defeat Hamas.

He said that Israel is “facing strategic defeat that we have not witnessed since the founding of the country” emphasizing “we cannot stop Hezbollah’s missiles and drones,” asking “what will happen in s regional war when not tens but thousands of missiles and drones are launched at us every day?”  

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Each Time a Tiger is Destroyed $3 Million Goes Down The Drain!

A Palestinian resistance fighter in flipflops and jeans. They come out from underground tunnels.

Al Yassin, a home-made shell, manufactured in the nooks and crannies of Gaza costs $500 according to a comment by Rozan Qabas Aal Salem, a Yemeni Jewish translator in Israel.

On the other hand, the destruction of the Tiger troop carrier, which is the pride of Israeli industry represents a great economic loss for each of these units cost $3 million.

But the cost of the machine is one thing; another is the cost of the training of these elite soldiers using the most sophisticated equipment and then the parish.

The training and rehabilitation of soldiers for each machine tanks and other military hardware takes as much as 10 years.

In this war on Gaza 100s of troop carriers, tanks, drones and military hardware has been lost by the Israeli army to Palestinian fighters.

A loss estimate would put the number of military hardware units stand at 1500. This is not to account the Israeli soldiers killed in tanks and troop carriers.

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