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[quote=Anonymous][quote] Last December, three months after the war broke out in Gaza, the Israeli army announced that it had “dismantled the operational capabilities” of Hamas’ armed wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, in the largest refugee camp in the Strip, Jabalia. The official discourse was triumphalist. “Jabalia is no longer what it was,” said the divisional commander who led the operation, Yitzhak Cohen. “We have killed hundreds of terrorists and arrested some 500 suspected terrorists,” he added, announcing the demolition of the three Hamas battalions stationed there.

Four months later, a division initially set to invade Rafah — the area in southern Gaza that tens of thousands of civilians are forcibly evacuating on the orders of the Israeli army — reentered Jabalia on Sunday, due to the reorganization of the militias. Both there and in Zeitoun — a district of the Gazan capital where the army had considered Hamas to be defeated — the intensity of the fighting is evidence that, after more than six months of the Israeli offensive, the “total victory” advocated by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is far from being achieved by the current operation to eliminate the last four remaining Hamas battalions, all of which are in Rafah.

Uncoincidentally, the military establishment has — anonymously, but in an apparently coordinated manner and for the first time since the war began — come out to criticize Netanyahu. Without a realistic plan for the “day after” the end of the conflict, Israeli troops are doomed to the myth of Sisyphus, with Hamas filling the gaps left by each withdrawal to launch insurgency actions, taking advantage of the militias’ knowledge of the terrain.[/quote]
https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-05-14/new-fighting-against-hamas-in-northern-gaza-lays-bare-holes-in-israels-military-strategy.html

Israel is losing.[/quote]

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