{"id":314145,"date":"2025-08-23T04:08:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T04:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=314145"},"modified":"2025-08-25T07:07:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T07:07:42","slug":"former-generals-admit-israel-facing-a-new-hamas-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=314145","title":{"rendered":"Former generals admit Israel facing a \u2018new Hamas\u2019 in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"

Press TV \u2013 Aug 22, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

A Hamas operation in Khan Yunis has highlighted Israel\u2019s faltering war goals\u00a0in Gaza, with a retired Israeli general admitting that the Palestinian resistance group is recovering and adapting despite months of Israeli aggression.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The military wing of Hamas, the al-Qassam Brigades, announced that its fighters launched a surprise attack<\/a> on Israeli forces southeast of Khan Yunis on Wednesday morning. According to the group, the fighters destroyed tanks, struck Israeli positions with mortars and explosive devices, and engaged soldiers in close-range combat inside residential buildings. A sniper also reportedly killed a Merkava 4 tank commander during the raid.<\/p>\n

Retired Israeli major general Israel Ziv admitted in an interview on 103FM that the movement is reorganizing and regaining initiative.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we are seeing before our eyes is a new Hamas, a Hamas that is recovering. Hamas is reorganizing like it began\u2014as a guerrilla organization,\u201d he said,\u00a0Maariv<\/em>\u00a0reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n

His remarks echoed earlier warnings by retired major general Yitzhak Brik, who wrote in July\u00a0that Hamas had already rebuilt to its pre-war strength.<\/p>\n

\u201cHamas now numbers about 40,000 resistance fighters, similar to its strength before the aggression began,\u201d Brik wrote, adding that Israel\u2019s soldiers face a \u201cgrim\u201d reality.<\/p>\n

Brik dismissed Israeli officials’ claim that the movement has been crippled. \u201cThey were never an army, and therefore they have not lost their military capabilities as the chief of staff claims,\u201d he argued.<\/p>\n

The debate within Israel reflects a wider recognition that the war has not met its stated goals, including the elimination of Hamas, despite widespread destruction of the area, which led to the forced displacement of almost the entire Gaza population.<\/p>\n

The remarks come as Israel pushes forward with plans to expand its ground invasion into Gaza City, even as the international community is warning about the dire humanitarian cost of such aggression.<\/p>\n

Gaza\u2019s authorities announced that more than 62,100 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have been killed and at least 157,114 injured since the Israeli genocidal war on the besieged territory began in October 2023.<\/p>\n

Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hamas now numbers about 40,000, similar to its strength before Oct 7, 2023. Only now the Hamas fighters are more highly motivated. While many of the IDF personnel are war weary and suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":300883,"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-314145","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\/314145","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=314145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314146,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314145\/revisions\/314146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/300883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=314145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=314145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=314145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}