American officials have confirmed that Hamas is trying to re-establish its police force in parts of Gaza City, the American newspaper "Wall Street Journal" reported this morning (Sunday).
While this is indeed true, it is a renewed presence of the terrorist organization in a visible way in the city that was occupied by the IDF during the land entry into the Gaza Strip.
The newspaper also states that the American intelligence agency estimates that Israel only eliminated 20-30 percent of Hamas fighters. This was reported today (Sunday). In the Wall Street Journal. In their estimation, Hamas has enough weapons to continue fighting for months.
It was also written that so far Israel has not achieved its goal of collapsing Hamas.
Following the American pressure, thousands of soldiers left Gaza and a push towards deliberate operations against the Hamas leadership.
According to them, the assessments in Israel and the US are that Hamas strives to survive the conflict. "You don't have to win, you just have to not lose," said a senior Israeli army official to the newspaper.
According to the American estimate, Hamas had between 25-30 thousand fighters before the war.
The IDF estimates that they have killed about 9,000 Hamas terrorists in Gaza since the beginning of the war and injured no less than 16,000, along with more than 1,000 who were killed on October 7.
This is about 30% of the total fighting force of the terrorist organization that were killed.
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