{"id":281928,"date":"2024-02-17T07:54:57","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T07:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=281928"},"modified":"2024-02-19T08:32:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T08:32:41","slug":"report-idf-intel-assesses-that-hamas-will-survive-as-terror-group-post-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=281928","title":{"rendered":"Report: IDF intel assesses that Hamas will \u2018survive as terror group\u2019 post-war"},"content":{"rendered":"

Times of Israel \u2013 Feb 16, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Israel\u2019s military intelligence circulated a document to Israeli leaders this week warning that even if the IDF succeeds in dismantling Hamas as an organized military force in Gaza, it will survive as \u201ca terror group and a guerrilla group,\u201d according to a Channel 12 report aired Thursday evening.<\/p>\n

The document, drawn up by the research division of IDF Military Intelligence, reportedly also states that \u201cauthentic support remains\u201d for Hamas among Gazans.<\/p>\n

Given that there is currently no practical effort being made to put in place a plan for Gaza on the \u201cday after\u201d the war, the document further warns, \u201cGaza will become an area in deep crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n

Channel 12 investigative journalist Ilana Dayan reported that the document was presented on Monday to Israel\u2019s political echelon, after it was discussed last weekend by senior IDF officers, Shin Bet officials and members of the National Security Council.<\/p>\n

The \u201cbottom line\u201d is that the document constitutes a warning from those in military intelligence who carry out such assessments, said Dayan, that \u201cHamas will survive this [IDF] campaign as a terror group and a guerrilla group.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn this regard, at least,\u201d she suggested, \u201cthere won\u2019t be absolute victory\u201d \u2014 as predicted and demanded by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu since the start of the war.<\/p>\n

The IDF Spokesman\u2019s Office declined to comment on the TV report.<\/p>\n

While Israeli officials have consistently publicly declared the goal of the war to be wiping out Hamas from the Strip, many countries and officials around the world have warned that it is not a feasible outcome.<\/p>\n

US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said in November<\/a> that while\u00a0Israel can dramatically reduce the threat from Hamas, eliminating the group and its ideology is likely impossible.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we have learned through our own experiences, that through military and other means you can absolutely have a significant impact on terrorist groups ability to resource itself, to train fighters, to recruit fighters, to plan to execute attacks,\u201d Kirby told reporters.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt doesn\u2019t mean that the ideology withers away and die,\u201d he said, a sentiment he repeated again<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n

A poll released in December and conducted during the weeklong truce in late November showed that<\/a> 57% of respondents in Gaza believed Hamas\u2019s October 7 onslaught was justified, and 42% of those in the Strip support the terror group overall.<\/p>\n

From the start of the war, IDF chief Herzi Halevi has generally spoken of \u201cdismantling\u201d rather than eliminating or eradicating Hamas, a term implicitly acknowledging that even a protracted war will not be able to destroy every military and terror threat from the Strip.<\/p>\n

The assessment that Hamas will withstand Israel\u2019s war aimed at its destruction is shared by Arab stakeholders in the region who met last week to advance a joint plan for Gaza\u2019s reconstruction after the fighting ends.<\/p>\n

Saudi Arabia, which hosted the meeting, invited Qatar to participate in a nod to Doha\u2019s influence over Hamas whose political leaders it hosts.<\/p>\n

The Arab countries that participated in last week\u2019s meeting don\u2019t want Hamas to be included in the political leadership of Gaza after the war, but they do believe that the terror group will manage to survive in some form and that a level of its acquiescence will be needed in order to successfully advance the rehabilitation of Gaza, a senior diplomat\u00a0told<\/a> The Times of Israel.<\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Israeli military intelligence has advised the government that even if the IDF succeeds in dismantling Hamas in Gaza, it will remain in the territory as \u201ca terror \u2026 \u201c or \u201ca guerrilla group\u201d. Given that Netanyahu\u2019s aim was to \u2018eliminate Hamas\u2019, this amounts to an official Israeli admission that the Gaza campaign has failed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":277793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[118,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-7-10-gaza-war","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=281928"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281963,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281928\/revisions\/281963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/277793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=281928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=281928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=281928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}