The Israeli army recently launched an attack on Rafah province in southern Gaza, but the Israeli army has not yet "approved" the death figures for the ground battle in Rafah, but on May 10, it "approved" the death of four others.
The four "lucky ones" who were "authorized to die" were all from the 931st Battalion of the 933rd Nahar Brigade of the Israeli Army, and the location of their deaths is even more interesting - not in Rafah City, but in Gaza City.
Why do we name the units and places of death of these "approved deaths"?
According to the IDF, the 933rd Nahar Brigade has been "withdrawn" from the Gaza Strip, and the 2nd Reserve Infantry Brigade and the 679th Reserve Armored Brigade are currently deployed in the corridor south of Gaza City.
And Gaza City is no stranger to everyone, Gaza City is the primary target in the Israeli army's ground offensive that will begin at the end of October 2023; In order to attack the area, the Israeli army committed about 20 brigade combat teams and a large number of auxiliary units, and declared "victory" in early January 2024.
Where the battle has been "won" for a long time, how can fighting still break out after four months?
Because the Israeli army's current ground combat strength is really brittle, it was originally expected that there should be no problem in investing heavy troops to fight in Gaza City for more than two months, so the Israeli army prematurely opened up the central and Khan Younis fronts; As a result, the progress of the Israeli army on the last two fronts was not smooth, and in order to increase troops, it could only choose to draw troops in the most critical final stage of the Gaza campaign, which in turn gave the local Hamas Gaza Brigade a chance to reorganize and recover.
According to the Israeli army, the Hamas military establishment in northern Gaza has been broken up, and only "stragglers" remain; However, the organizational and combat effectiveness displayed by these "stragglers" has caused the remaining Israeli troops to suffer repeated losses, and this is obviously not the state of the so-called "stragglers."
Moreover, this rhetoric is obviously to fool the people of their own country and the believers of the outside world who are not very bright-minded, but in fact, even the Israeli army itself does not believe in such propaganda.
Because if the Israeli army really judges that the Hamas forces in Gaza City are just "stragglers", it can use the troops of the two reserve brigades in the corridor to participate in the attack.
You can't think that the Israeli army reserve veterans, who are so powerful in peacetime, can't even deal with a few Hamas stragglers, right?
And what's even funnier is that, according to the statistics of the Israeli army's results, Hamas in Gaza City should now be beaten into "air", it should not exist, but in the form of "air Hamas".
(Note: According to Israel, the Israeli army has "killed" 16,000 enemies in the Gaza war, and if you add the seriously wounded and captured, the entire Hamas in the Gaza Strip should not be combat-ready)
As a result, the Israeli army would rather leave the two reserve brigades that had just been transferred and send troops from the newly withdrawn reserve units, which shows that the Israeli army is "very sincere" -- it itself believes that the temporarily recruited reserve units are not enough to accomplish such a task, and it must use the main force on active duty.
In order to prepare for the Rafah operation, the 933rd Nahar Brigade has been transferred south and used as a campaign reserve, and the 931st Battalion under its command was even "authorized to die" in the attack on the Israeli "Rafah Battalion" by Hamas rockets on May 5.
Therefore, this wave of Israeli "clearance teams" that appeared in Gaza City were actually temporarily transferred back from the south, and as a result, they were planted under the guns of the "Air Hamas" in Gaza City.
Moreover, a wave of "approved deaths" of 4 people, even the most conservative estimates, the casualties of the Israeli army must be more than 10 people; Seven months after the Gaza War and four months after the Battle of Gaza City was "concluded," the local Hamas forces still have such combat effectiveness, and we really don't want to comment too much on the Israeli army's operational "achievements."
As for in the Rafah direction, now that more intense battles have taken place, we can safely say that the Israeli army has already been killed.
But as we all know, its "death" needs to be "approved" before it can be made public, and now since it doesn't want to be made public, everyone can only wait and see.