Truth is only above the edge of the sword, and dignity is only within the range of the cannon. This famous quote of a Chinese military expert is now best confirmed in the Middle East. After the United States, Hamas, and Saudi Arabia called for peace and put forward proposals for ceasefire talks in Gaza, Israel's mediation representatives from all sides have sat down at the negotiating table, but Gaza is still under fire. Recently, Israel shelled Gaza again, and the ground military operation was in full swing, and Hamas and its allies also rose up to resist. The chaos in the Middle East continues to spiral out of control because of Israel's unscrupulous behavior.
From a military point of view, Hamas and Israel have been fighting in Gaza for half a year, and Israel has won a strategic victory, controlling a large area of Gaza territory except for Rafah in the south, while Hamas has not been defeated, while stubbornly resisting a powerful enemy, it has not only retained its vital forces, but also cost Israel countless military spending and resources through a war of attrition. It is no exaggeration to say that Israel's all-out blow did not uproot Hamas from Gaza, but instead allowed the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza to continue to ferment, putting Israel and the United States that supported it in an unfavorable situation and becoming the target of everyone's shouting.
In an unfavorable situation, Israel has chosen to temporarily avoid the front and withdraw its troops from Gaza on a large scale, which has given Hamas a respite and a buffer time for itself to regain its strength. For Hamas, in addition to using this precious buffer period to step up diplomatic maneuvers, it is also licking its wounds in the shadows. In particular, in late April, Hamas and Fatah met in Beijing after recuperation, and there was a great tendency for the two factions to reconcile and unite with the outside world.
In the wake of this diplomatic move, Hamas has made an unexpected move, openly calling for a ceasefire in Israel, and even showing its willingness to lay down its arms in exchange for permanent peace in Gaza, in exchange for support for Palestinian statehood. Although Hamas's retreat is very clever and even supported by the United States, the Israeli government led by Netanyahu does not buy it at all. Even under strong pressure from the United States, which threatened to cut off military aid, Israel still made the decision to continue attacking Rafah, which also forced Hamas in a desperate situation to continue to resist.
Of course, after the bloody war and attrition in the early stage, Hamas is now at the end of its power, so after the resumption of the war in Gaza, Hamas's "brothers in life and death" began to carry the banner of anti-epidemic. According to Iran's Press TV, after Israel shelled Gaza, Jihad, Iraqi militias and Allah Lebanon have all stepped up their attacks on Israeli forces. Among them, Allah in Lebanon used short-range tactical missiles, heavy rockets, drones and other weapons to launch onslaught on Israeli settlements on the Lebanese-Israeli border and the headquarters and barracks of the Israeli 91st Division. Iraqi Shiite militants launched cruise missiles against Israeli cities such as Haifa, and the jihad militant group even sent death squads to engage in fierce battles in Rafah and the Israeli 91st Division, which was the main attacker. In response, the Israeli army has also continued to launch large-scale air strikes on Syria, Lebanon and the Palestinian Gaza region, and the fighting in Gaza has spilled over and escalated.
Judging from the current situation, the Israeli army has closed the Kerem Shalom crossing after attacking Rafah, which also means that Gaza's main artery for external aid has been cut off again, and humanitarian aid will once again be in trouble. On May 9, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu openly said that even if the United States does not provide weapons, Israel will not stop attacking Rafah. At the same time, Israel and the mediators are still negotiating a ceasefire in Gaza in the Egyptian capital, but the results are very clear: Israel has no intention of shaking hands with Hamas and is ready to "talk and fight".
Even Hamas, which still has a large number of hostages in its hands, cannot force Israel to stop its military operations. Although on 10 May, the UN General Assembly overwhelmingly adopted a resolution recommending that the Security Council reconsider Palestine's application for membership in the UN, for Israel, which still does not lay down its butcher's knife, the intervention and obstruction of the international community is nothing more than scratching the itch in the boot, and the ceasefire in Gaza is still far away.