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Since the first hours of the #genocidal_war on the #Gaza Strip, the PM of the Israeli occupation, Netanyahu, announced a number of prominent goals for the war, the most important of which was ending the resistance & the #Hamas movement and recovering his prisoners by force. So what did he achieve from that?
Details via Quds Reports:
Since the first hours of the Battle of the Flood of Al-Aqsa on October 7, 2023, the Prime Minister of the occupation, Benjamin Netanyahu, announced a set of goals with which he launched the war of genocide on the Gaza Strip.
The first of these goals was to recover the prisoners who were kidnapped by the resistance when it stormed the military sites and settlements surrounding the Gaza Strip, by force and without any compensation, after the occupation army entered the Gaza Strip and destroyed the resistance factions.
The broader goal that Netanyahu presented to his community and the world as a whole is to completely end and defeat Hamas and the resistance, while his government ministers went beyond that, such as announcing settlement plans inside the Gaza Strip to build settlements there and establish military sites and bases for the occupation army in various areas of the Strip. So what has Netanyahu achieved in 15 months?
Continuous resistance and deadly ambushes
From the first moments of the ground invasion launched by the occupation army on the Gaza Strip, tank columns were exposed to tight ambushes in the town of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, and the Bureij camp in the central region, which are the two areas from which the occupation forces initially advanced.
As soon as the ground invasion expanded into the Gaza Strip, violent battles took place between the Palestinian resistance factions and the occupation forces inside the alleys and streets, while the resistance was able to inflict the greatest damage on the occupation army’s tanks and military vehicles, in addition to killing hundreds of occupation soldiers from the various elite brigades that carried out the invasion.
Hebrew media announced yesterday, Wednesday, after reaching the agreement, that the Palestinian resistance was able to kill 838 officers and soldiers from the occupation army since the beginning of the ground invasion in the Gaza Strip, in addition to wounding 15 thousand others with varying wounds, the highest percentage of which are permanent disabilities, in addition to thousands of cases of psychological trauma that will accompany the occupation soldiers during the coming months.
According to military sources of the occupation, the Qassam Brigades maintained their ability to carry out qualitative operations, and even recruited thousands of resistance fighters, which reflects the failure of the Israeli military strategy to achieve its declared goals.
During the three months preceding the ceasefire agreement, the resistance fought fierce battles in the northern Gaza Strip, specifically in the town of Beit Hanoun and the Jabalia camp, during which the resistance demonstrated its ability to inflict qualitative losses on the brigades participating in the military operations in the northern Gaza Strip. The most prominent of these was the killing of Colonel Ihsan Daqsa, commander of the 401st Brigade, known as the “Iron Paths” Brigade of the 162nd Division of the occupation army, during a qualitative ambush. The resistance’s fire also reached the various elite units that participated in the operations within the geographical area of the northern Gaza Strip, especially the Nahal Brigade .
At the height of the last round of negotiations, the resistance was able to ambush the occupation forces in Beit Hanoun, the most prominent of which was last Monday when the Qassam Brigades targeted a building where occupation soldiers from the “Sayeret Nahal” unit of the Nahal Brigade were fortified in Beit Hanoun, with an anti-tank missile, which led to the collapse of the building and the killing of 5 soldiers, including a major, in addition to wounding 11 others, while the occupation army confirmed the killing of 7 of its soldiers in the battles with the resistance in the northern Gaza Strip last Saturday.
Through these operations and others, it has been proven conclusively to the occupation community and even its political and military elites that Netanyahu has failed to achieve his goal, which was to prioritize ending the resistance in the Gaza Strip, as well as not recovering his prisoners held by the resistance.
Perhaps the missile attacks carried out by the resistance factions on the Netzarim axis, in addition to the launching of missiles at the settlements surrounding the Gaza Strip, have shattered Netanyahu’s hopes and promises to his people to end the threat of missiles from the Gaza Strip.
Netanyahu’s acceptance of the exchange deal is interpreted as a form of failure and retreat from the main goal he launched at the beginning of the war, which was to recover the occupation’s prisoners by force and without compensation, while the occupation, its intelligence agencies and its army were unable to achieve this goal.
Accepting withdrawal from the Gaza Strip
Throughout the months of war, Netanyahu worked to adhere to the decision not to withdraw from the areas where the occupation army was stationed during the ground incursion, especially the Netzarim axis that separated northern Gaza from the Strip, the Philadelphi axis adjacent to the Palestinian-Egyptian border, and some areas inside the Strip.
During previous rounds of negotiations, Netanyahu was able to thwart the understandings by insisting on not withdrawing, while the Palestinian resistance insisted on the necessity of the withdrawal of the occupation army, while the resistance finally won during the last round of negotiations.
Maariv journalist Ben Kisvet commented on the occupation leadership’s insistence on not withdrawing from the Philadelphi corridor in the southern Gaza Strip during the months of war, and then withdrawing from it in a “dramatic” deal, while Hamas did not back down from its condition for the occupation army to withdraw from the corridor and achieved what it wanted.
Criticism and accusations of failure
In reality on the ground, Netanyahu was unable to achieve any of the conditions and goals he had set at the beginning of the war, and he continued to adhere to them during more than a year of violent fighting, while his failure was translated into the bloody massacres his army committed against defenseless civilians, which revealed the true image of the occupation to the world.
