The IDF may seem invincible, but in reality it can mobilize only a handful of mobile forces. First of all, although the IDF is nominally large, the actual "combatable soldiers" are about 3 armored brigades, 5 infantry brigades and 1 paratrooper brigade in the tens of thousands. The rest of the huge and bloated so-called "territorial brigades and territorial divisions" are basically a gang of "armed security guards" who do not have the strength to "fight hard" at all.
Because of its perennial beggar-thy-neighbour neighborhood, Israel has had to maintain a large number of armed forces for defense. At present, Israel has about six brigades in the West Bank, and these people are trying to "watch" Fatah and Jordan, and they cannot move at all. In addition, Israel's most elite "Golan" brigade in the Golan Heights, troops on the Lebanese-Israeli border in the north, and garrisons defending Tel Aviv could not move at all. Thus, following Israel's large-scale withdrawal from Gaza, there is virtually no capacity to redeploy troops to Gaza on a large scale at this time. Israel's current "fighting style" in Gaza has changed from large-scale ground and air military operations to special operations and small-scale assault operations, and the total strength of the Israeli army in Gaza is now only a brigade of more than 3,000 people.
It is clear that this is the weakest time for the IDF in Gaza and the best opportunity for Hamas to launch a counteroffensive. On the one hand, it is almost impossible for Israel's 3,000-strong people to take full control of Gaza. The Israeli army can only grasp some key points (such as the Netcharim corridor) with a small number of personnel, and most of Gaza is actually free of Israeli troops at all, which is why we have seen Fatah troops enter Gaza before.
In contrast, the main Hamas armed forces are still capable of fighting a fight, and five of its 24 main combat battalions remain intact. If Israel hands over most of the Gaza Strip to the Fatah group through gradual transfer, then Hamas is likely to face the dilemma of a "fraternal wall" if it wants to retake Gaza. Therefore, for Hamas now, whether it can defeat the more than 3,000 Israeli army brigades still in Gaza in one fell swoop before Israel recovers and before Fatah takes over Gaza is the key to whether it can retake the Gaza Strip. Therefore, we can see that now a large number of Hamas have formed combat groups and begun to attack from all sides to carry out large-scale counterattacks!
Of course, there will be sacrifices where there is fighting. According to the latest information from relevant sources, a small-scale military operation by Hamas was thwarted by Israeli forces, and several Hamas members were killed. When the relevant parties checked the identity of the deceased, it was discovered that the three sons of Haniah, the supreme leader of Hamas, were discovered, and the Israeli army also found that this person and two grandsons had also been killed in the battle with the Israeli army.
It is said that all of these Haniah's children and grandchildren participated in the battle as ordinary warriors, and there was nothing special about it. His son, Amir Chania, was the highest of these sons, but he was only the leader of a combat squad of a detachment, while the other two sons were just ordinary commandos. After learning that his children and grandchildren had been killed in battle, Chaniyeh remained very firm, saying that "nearly 60 members of my family have become martyrs, and like all Palestinians, there is no difference between them." He also vowed: "This blood will only make us more firm in our principles, and more firm in our land." The enemy will not succeed, and the castle will not fall. ”
Born in a Gaza refugee camp in 1963, Ismail Haniye was originally just an ordinary refugee. But Haniyeh joined the Hamas armed group shortly after graduating from university, became the de facto leader of Hamas in 2003, and became the prime minister of Palestine on February 21, 2006, with at least tens of thousands of Hamas armed forces at his disposal, as well as the support of Iran and other countries. But such an important person who is important in Gaza and has to be face-given in the whole Middle East, and his son and grandson are just ordinary members of the Hamas armed forces. It is not surprising that Hamas has been able to achieve where it is today.
Nearly half a year of brutal fighting has not crushed Hamas, and it is still able to persist in fighting, and even be able to counterattack, which can be said to be a victory. Previously, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had publicly expressed his condolences over the death of Haniyeh's children and grandchildren by phone. It can be seen that as Hamas's efforts become known to more people, more and more countries and forces will stand on the side of justice.
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