A fierce battle is about to begin again. At the moment, Israel is preparing to evacuate Palestinians from Rafah. After that, Israel will lay siege to Rafah and launch a military operation in Rafah for at least six weeks.
Netanyahu's message is clear: Israel will deal a heavy blow to Hamas, and the Israeli army will take more action in the coming days.
This means that the main Israeli army, which left Gaza before, will soon make a comeback. Hamas's four battalions deployed in Rafah will face an existential battle.
According to a report by RIA Novosti on April 23, the New York Times believes that Hamas's heavy casualties do not mean that "this force has been destroyed." On the one hand, the Hamas commanders who remain in Gaza are still holding out, they are hiding in underground tunnels, and Hamas has not yet fallen into a situation of "no leader".
On the other hand, there are still more than 4,000 Hamas personnel in northern Gaza, and the number is likely to grow, with some Israeli-hating Palestinians joining Hamas.
In the past few days, Israel has launched military operations against refugee camps in Gaza and Lebanon, resulting in a large number of casualties. Of course, pro-Iranian forces have also fought back against Israel.
On April 22, Lebanese Allah released a video of "shooting down an Israeli drone." After being hit by a missile, the Israeli drone emitted black smoke from its tail and crashed, leaving the wreckage on Lebanese proper. Israel confirmed that the $9 million drone was indeed shot down by Allah. In retaliation for Allah, Israel dispatched warplanes and attacked missile launch points.
On the 21st, Allah also released a video of "missiles destroying Israeli military vehicles". The Israeli military vehicle exploded violently, then lost control and slid into the woods.
On 22 April, Allah said it had used Katyusha rockets against Israel. This time, it was the command of the 91st Infantry Brigade of the 3rd Israeli Division that was bombed.
In other words, in the case of Israel's successive "beheading" of senior commanders of Allah's elite Radwan Brigade, Allah chose to retaliate and launch a "beheading" operation against Israel. However, according to the Israeli Ministry of Defense, although more than 30 rockets were fired into northern Israel, there were no casualties.
In retaliation, Israel attacked the opponent's rocket launches.
In addition, Hamas forces have fired rockets at Israel, and Iraqi forces have attacked Israel.
It is not difficult to see that the fighting between Israel and pro-Iranian forces did not end there, after Israel's retaliation against Iran. Between restraint and-for-tat, Iran has chosen to forbear for the time being, but this does not mean that Iran will remain silent.
Iran has said any attack against Iran will be met with a counterattack. Iran also once again showed the "countdown card" set up for Israel, the main content of which is "how much time is left to destroy Israel by 2040".
For the time being, Iran's choice is still to use the power of the "Fox of Resistance" to fight back against the United States and Israel.
As the core of the "fox of resistance", Iran will help pro-Iranian forces. The Houthis, Allah in Lebanon, and pro-Iranian forces in Iraq have occasionally retaliated against Israel, even attacking US and British targets.
On April 21, two U.S. military bases in Syria were attacked, one of which was bombed by rockets. However, the Pentagon chose to remain silent on this matter, and the White House did not target Iran or pro-Iranian forces.
The question is, why does the White House, which has always been hard-mouthed, choose to swallow its anger? The reason is very simple: The United States does not want to be mired in war, nor does it want to be deeply tied to Israel at this time.
The U.S. option is to use dollars to help Israel, while calling on Israel to exercise restraint with Iran and asking Israel not to besiege Rafah.
It is clear that the US attempt was not entirely successful. Iran chose to borrow the slope to get off the donkey, but Israel did not give the United States face. It is not difficult to imagine what kind of pressure the White House will be under if Israel launches a military operation in Rafah that results in a large number of innocent casualties. When the time comes, anti-Israel protests will erupt in the United States.
The storm is accelerating, and a vicious battle will soon begin. Neither the persuasion of the United States, nor the warnings of the United Nations, nor the ultimatum of France, will work here in Israel.
It is very difficult for Palestinian children to grow up, and this is a tragedy for the Middle East, but also for humanity and for the whole world.