Maariv: Hamas is still strong and fighting

Pars Today – A Zionist newspaper acknowledged the inefficiency of the Zionist regime's army in Gaza and wrote: The Israeli army razed the city of "Rafah" in the southern Gaza Strip to the ground and took it under its control twice, but the Palestinian Hamas movement is still fighting there.

Avi Ashkenazi, a military reporter for the Zionist newspaper Maariv, wrote in his report for the paper: Rafah has been brought under Israeli military control twice, and buildings have been razed to the ground, but it has been revealed that the core elements of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) are still fighting against the Israeli army.

Hamas fights to the last weapon and does not surrender

The Zionist reporter added: Rafah, like other parts of Gaza, once again proves that Hamas will not be defeated until the last force, the last weapon, and the last bomb.

Maariv emphasized that Hamas has simply changed its style of struggle, turning this war into a guerrilla war against a reformed army, and is striving to strike at its weaknesses. Therefore, the rhetoric used by Israeli politicians about Hamas surrendering is nothing but empty and hollow talk.

Zionist news sources had previously admitted in their reports that disagreements between the political and military leaders of the Israeli regime have cast a wide shadow over the regime's strategy in the war against Gaza and left its future in doubt.

Israeli regime media also report increasing tensions between the political and military leadership of the regime over the war strategy in Gaza, against the backdrop of disagreements about the benefits of occupying Gaza City and the future of military operations.

Since the start of the Gaza war on October 7, 2023, and the unprecedented "Al-Aqsa Storm" operation launched surprisingly by the Palestinian resistance forces, the Zionist regime's army has faced a series of heavy and costly blows. These blows have had profound effects on the Zionist regime's army, both on the field level and on the psychological and strategic levels.

In the first days of the war, dozens of Zionists were killed and hundreds were captured. According to many observers, this event is considered the most unprecedented intelligence and security failure of the occupying regime since its establishment.

Subsequently, during the extensive attacks and ground operations launched by the Israeli regime's army to free Zionist prisoners and counter the resistance, the Palestinian resistance, using irregular warfare tactics, complex tunnels, precise ambushes, and planned explosions, inflicted heavy losses on the military units of the Zionist regime.

The Palestinian resistance also managed to destroy or capture dozens of Merkava tanks, armored personnel carriers, drones, and advanced detection systems of the Zionist regime's army.

Now, many observers believe that despite all the costs, the Palestinian resistance has been able to change the equations of the battle and entangle the Zionist regime's army in a costly war of attrition, with no clear prospect of victory for the occupiers.