Netanyahu’s regime isolated both domestically and internationally, fearful of Gaza truth as Hamas fighting on : UK media

The invading Israeli forces are still facing “fierce resistance” in Gaza, while more than three months of brutal aggression on the besieged Strip has caused a deep split in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s war cabinet, according to a British daily.

Netanyahu’s cabinet is becoming increasingly isolated both domestically and internationally, said the report run by The Times on Sunday.

“Israeli forces are still facing fierce resistance in northern Gaza despite having claimed to be able to wind down operations in the area,” it added.

The report said that the ability of Hamas to “continue to put troops on the ground in Gaza City, the territory’s capital,” has raised questions about Israel’s “strategy for the war.”

It also highlighted that Joe Biden’s administration is “downgrading its expectations of the war’s outcome.”

This comes after US intelligence sources said they believe the Israeli military may have assassinated about 5,000 to 6,000 Hamas fighters, according to reports in American media; however, the Israeli military claims to have martyred 9,000 fighters.

“[That] is a disparity which also appears to reflect the deepening divide between Netanyahu’s [cabinet], and the Biden administration,” it said.

The report also stated that Israeli and the US claims that hundreds of fighters of the Hamas resistance movement were martyred in the ongoing aggression “has shown no signs of crippling its activities.”

The fighting in northern Gaza “followed a series of incidents in which Hamas attempted to show it had a broad presence there”, the daily said, noting that that the resistance fighters continued to “fire missiles into the Occupied Palestine from central Gaza, despite Israeli tanks on the ground.”

The Times said the prolonged fighting has also contributed to divisions in Netanyahu’s war cabinet, as Gadi Eisenkot, a former Chief of Staff and now a member of the opposition National Unity Party, stressed that Netanyahu’s war goal of the elimination of Hamas was unachievable.