Jonah Jeremy Bob – Jerusalem Post Jan 1, 2025
Hamas is making a substantial comeback by recruiting new forces, Channel 12 reported and The Jerusalem Post confirmed on Wednesday night.
Combined with forces from Palestinian Islamic Jihad together, Channel 12 said on Wednesday night that Hamas was up to between 20,000-23,000 fighters.
Information obtained by the Post indicated that recently, numbers were closer to around 12,000.
Over the last 15 months, there has been a gulf of a few thousand between the IDF and Netanyahu, casting doubt on the estimates.
In June, the IDF said that between 14,000-16,000 Hamas fighters had been wounded.
The Post has learned that over 6,000 Gazans have been detained by the military during the war. At least 4,300 remain in custody, and at most, 2,200 were returned to Gaza, deemed less dangerous.
Numbers don’t add up
Given that in October 2023, the IDF said that Hamas’s full forces were 25,000, the numbers do not come close to adding up – unless one takes into account that Hamas has recruited almost an entirely new force, fully replacing its old one.
Another alternative is that despite the initial IDF estimates of 25,000, estimates from before the war stood at 30,000, even up to 40,000.
The Post was told on Wednesday night that the 40,000 number was more accurate.This could suggest that a majority of the Hamas fighters are still from their original force, and they have undoubtedly added thousands of new recruits.
June heralded the first reports of a large Hamas comeback on the heels of the IDF withdrawal from northern Gaza in January-February, and the later withdrawal from Khan Yunis on April 7.
If the Channel 12 report is correct, it would put 9,000 Hamas forces split between northern and southern Gaza, PIJ with another 4,000, and another 7,000-10,000 disorganized fighters spread out throughout the enclave.These figures would seem to contradict those presented in recent military briefings to reporters, which indicated that much of northern Gaza has been cleared of fighters.
Alternatively, it could be that the Hamas numbers are closer to 12,000, with more fighters in southern Gaza than in northern Gaza. However, sources on Wednesday night backed up Channel 12’s numbers.
Still, even Channel 12’s numbers had a significant gap and spectrum, such that IDF estimates may simply be more limited in a period when most of Gaza’s 2.3 million people are displaced, have evacuated and moved around several times in this war, and are clustered in a few small humanitarian areas, with little ability to distinguish between terrorist and civilian.
A source told the Post on Wednesday night that the total numbers remain unclear, but that the quality of new Hamas fighters receiving weapons is far inferior to the state it was in earlier in the war, given that many of them are untrained minors.
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Heartburn For Israel; Hamas Makes Stunning Comeback In Gaza; ‘23,000 Active Fighters…’
Times of India – Jan 1, 2025
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Or,or,also,alternatively……there are no fighters?just numbers
Game over for HAMAS. Game over for the Palestinian resistance. These disgusting traitors brought down the ONLY Arab regime that was supporting them, the governement of Bashar Al-Asad.
And now their friends in Syria follow the Gulf countries and normalizing their relations with “Israel”.
Hizbullah paid a dear price for supportimg them – in fact it’s a grotesque sitiation when you sent the best of your youth to die for the people who rejoice when these young people get killed. And the enemy for them is not “Israel” but Iran and Hizbullah.
Hell with palestinians and hamas.
Too bad Hamas is a CIA-Mossad-KGB bogus ‘muslim’ terror org. Notice they always wear masks to conceal the fact that Jews or IDF members are dressing up as Hamas.
GOD BLESS HAMAS
Suspected people smugglers face internet and phone bans in migrant crisis crackdown
Story by Susanna Siddell • Suspected people smugglers will face internet and phone bans in Labour’s latest migrant crisis crackdown outlined in Keir Starmer’s Border Security Bill.
The Home Office has announced that suspects will face severe curbs including bans on travel, internet use, and mobile phone access as part of a major expansion of court orders designed to crack down on migrant smuggling
Look understand this since 1945 the government have been people smugglers
both labour and tory, the rothschild parties have been people trafficking them in
The government are the people smugglers, got it ?
Israel and Nitwityahu POS funded Hamas. Nuke them, shoot him. Period
Jews dressing up in their Hamas uniforms
“IT WILL BE A WORLD OF TERROR.” –1984
Speaking about her time as Home Secretary, Braverman recalled meeting survivors of grooming gangs in Rotherham and Rochdale, describing it as “one of the most unforgettable moments” of her tenure.
She told GB News: “We need to have a zero tolerance approach when it comes to deporting those foreign nationals who have been found guilty of these heinous crimes.
That looks like my nephews Yakov & Moshe behind those Hamas masks.
20-23,000 ‘H’ team resistance members mentioned ?
Igan wants me to believe Gaza has been a cut off enclave for many years.
so never mind the claimed 2 million population of this ‘camp’…. How are 20 odd thou fighters, fed, clothed & supplied with military hardware on a continual basis ? HOW..
Also, this 20-odd thou’ would be inflicting far more IDF casualties than 3 or 4 here & there in a rubble strewn environment akin to Lenningrad-St Pete’s burg in the sun…Is there any ferocious hand to hand combat..house to house, room by room aka- Stalingrad (Volgograd) with all the ‘phones’ everyone seems to own these days, I see next to NO COVERAGE. as in proper viewable images.
Just saying.
Obviously I believe nothing the bbc puts out, I’m also finding it impossible to take in anything the so called alternative media claim too.
@Ezra
i thought one looked like my cousin Yosef
nico says its all a hoax
thats good ! for every by IDF killed palestinian
child 10 new Hamas fighters will grow like
fungus from earth !
@ lets kill all the GOLDSTEINS + COHENS !
@EZRA PIGFART FUCK YOU !
@ GLENN ASHTON
yea, maybe a jewish propaganda lie .