Press TV – Jan 21, 2024
US intelligence agencies estimate that the death toll among Hamas fighters from Israel’s ongoing aggression against the Gaza Strip falls short of the regime’s goal of eliminating the Palestinian resistance group.
In a classified report, the spy agencies highlighted Hamas’ resilience over the past months, saying the Israeli war has killed 20 to 30 percent of members of the resistance movement, the Wall Street Journal says.
“Hamas still has enough munitions to continue striking Israel and Israeli forces in Gaza for months, and that the group is attempting to reconstitute its police force in parts of Gaza City,” said US officials who confirmed the report.
Israeli officials have conceded that they have not achieved their goal of obliterating Hamas despite killing thousands of civilians in the aggressive air and ground campaign on Gaza, the report added.
It also cited military analysts as referring to adjusted tactics by Hamas fighters, saying they are operating in smaller groups and hiding between ambushes on Israeli troops, while individual fighters are likely taking on more tasks to pick up the slack from their martyred comrades.
Israel waged the genocidal war on besieged Gaza on October 7 after Hamas carried out Operation Al-Aqsa Storm in retaliation for its intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.
However, more than three months into the offensive, the usurping regime seems stuck in the Gaza quagmire despite killing 25,105 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injuring more than 62,000 others.
The report said that US officials have begun to scale down their expectations for the Gaza war and that they have urged Israel to shift toward more targeted operations aimed at Hamas’ leadership.
Hamas can still fight despite casualties
Hamas fighters in their network of tunnels. Click to enlarge
The US estimated that Hamas had between 25,000 and 30,000 fighters before the Gaza offensive in addition to thousands of police and other forces, according to the report.
The Israeli military estimated that it has killed about 9,000 out of at least 30,000 Hamas fighters in Gaza with over 1,000 during the October 7 attack, amounting to about 30 percent of the resistance group’s total fighting force.
Citing a senior Israeli military official, the report said as many as 16,000 Hamas fighters have been wounded and about half of those will not return to the battlefield.
It further noted that the US estimates between 10,500 and 11,700 resistance fighters have been injured, many of those could eventually return to the battle ground.
In US military doctrine, a conventional force that loses 25%-30% of its fighters would be considered combat-ineffective. But Hamas is an irregular force fighting a defensive war in a dense urban environment and has access to hundreds of miles of tunnels under Gaza.
It has shown that it can still fight, said retired Army General Joseph Votel, who commanded US military operations in the Middle East.
Recently, the Israeli military withdraw thousands of forces from the Gaza Strip in the first significant troop pullback since the devastating war began.
An Israeli military officer said Hamas authorities have returned to Gaza City, including to areas previously held by the regime’s army.
“It’s only a matter of time if Israel will not be boots on the ground in these places and that they will also bring back the military wing,” said Michael Milshtein, a former head of Palestinian affairs for Israeli military intelligence.
Welcome to the beginning of the perfect storm of Israel’s destruction.
Don’t worry about it, since Oct 7 was an IDF-Mossad-Hamas false flag/psyop, everything is going according to plan
Why is the IDF not using infrared sensors to detect warm bodies?! Why are they not using penetrating ground rays to detect tunnels? Etc… Suspicious Minds want to know…
Ridiculous!
This reveal the fakeness of Israeli reports.
This is a stage.
There is no Hamas!
Just an area just cleansed!
And now the show!
And the Chris Hedges left is clueless!
That is you fact-checkers next week work.
HOLOCAUST NEWS
October 7 saw the largest number of people killed in a single day since ww 2 and much like conspiracy theorists are denying or revising facts relating to the Palestinian Genocide, reading between the lines of to The Washington Post and previous articles by The Jerusalem Post.
Mirela Monte, a US-based real estate agent, told the Post that she had been “appalled” when news first broke about israels massive terror attacks on tower blocks in Gaza, which stole the lives of over 1200 people. However, Monte later discovered a Telegram group known as ‘Uncensored Truths,’ which led her to believe that the tragedy had been carried out by Israel in retaliation
Monte told the Post that Israel had carried out “false flag” attacks on their own people to justify a war with Gaza, disclaiming that the state is “Pure evil” and “Israel is like a mad dog off a leash.
“Protests during the conflict between Israel and Palestinian group Hamas, paralyses the city of london every day with millions demonstrating against israeli terrorism, what particularly upset jewish groups was marchers singing the british soldiers wartime song
” beware beware the dirty jew ”
Despite extensive video evidence, witness testimony and film from Hamas on israeli terrorism, israelclaims they were justified in bombing residential areas in palestine lebanon syria and iraq
The Jerusalem Post reported in November that Piers Corbyn, the brother of the former leader of the UK’s Labour Party, claimed that Israel targetted and killed by israel on October 7 were innocent women and children
Corbyn claimed that October 7 was a “huge lie” to “justify an invasion and genocide to take the oil, to destroy Palestine and to make an Israeli superstate.”
Nutenyau said this attack on jews is the new holocaust on our people
The Network Contagion Research Institute found that TikTok, Reddit, and 4chan hashtags accusing Israel of staging, or misleading narratives, about October 7 were tripled in the weeks after the attack.
A nice jewish couple goes to visit their new Rabbi about joining the new synagogue
this new synagogue was very strict and so there was a series of tests before they could be welcomed there
They and two other couples were told they had one final test before they could join, they had to go one month with no physical contact of any kind.
A month latter they all return.
The rabbi asks how everyone did/
Couple number one – We’ve been married 35 years. It was a challenge, but we made it.
Great! You are welcome in the synagogue
Couple number 2 = we’ve been married only 8 years. It was tough, but we managed it
Couple number 3 – Rabbi we are newly weds. It was terrible. each week was harder than the previous one.
the third week we were getting things ready for breakfast and she just dropped a biscuit on the floor and when she bent over to pick it up
I lost control grabbed her held her over the fridge and gave her one, we did it right there and then.
The Rabbi looked upset and sadly replied that he could fully understand and sympathize,
but they were no longer welcome in the synagogue
the groom replied, ‘Well. we no longerwelcome in McDonald’s any more either