'Israel' can't defeat Hamas, time ticking for captives: ex-Mossad head
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Danny Yatom has revealed that Hamas still has the capability to strike "Israel" and remains undefeated in Gaza.
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Masked fighters from al-Qassam Brigades, a military wing of Hamas, march along the streets of the Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, Friday, May 28, 2021. (AP)
Former head of the Israeli Mossad, Danny Yatom, said that "time was running out" for Israeli captives being held in Gaza.
Yatom stressed that he was prepared to do everything he could to return the captives, including "agreeing to Hamas' demands," indicating the limited choices "Israel" has as the Resistance continues scoring achievements by the day.
Speaking to Channel 13, he clarified that returning Israeli captives was of "utmost importance", noting that the matter could force "Israel" to halt all operations at a certain point.
"Israel" will fail to achieve any of its war objectives, the former Mossad chief affirmed, saying that Gaza will remain the way it is. He further stated that even if the Israeli occupation forces "remained in Gaza for several more months, fighting over and under its lands, they would still not be able to kill every Hamas fighter or even the majority of them."
Moreover, he said that the IOF would also fail to destroy the Resistance's infrastructure in Gaza or even its majority.
'Destroying Hamas is empty talk'
Danny Yotam specifically mentioned how al-Qassam Brigades launched rockets toward the Gush Dan settlement in Tel Aviv, saying he was "not surprised because as everyone knows, Hamas still has the capability to launch rockets," after 233 days since Al-Aqsa Flood was launched.
In this context, Matan Vilai, a former major general in the IOF, said that Hamas succeeded in targeting the middle area, affirming that the Resistance is still active, and denied that there was something called "destroying Hamas".
In an interview with the Israeli Kan channel, Vilai described talks of destroying Hamas as "empty words that are extensively discussed in Israel, but it is part of the phenomena we have to endure."
Israeli media reported in parallel that the rocket launch against the center of the occupation "surprised Israel against the backdrop of the intelligence image provided through military reports."
It confirmed that Hamas "strategically planned its defense line in Rafah strongly and surprisingly," explaining that the rockets were launched from just a few meters away from the Israeli forces' presence, east of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.
Resistance bombs Tel Aviv
The Palestinian Resistance continues targeting Israeli settlements on the 233rd day of the war, in response to the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, and continues to carry out complex operations and ambushes in its confrontation with occupation forces penetrating all fronts, leaving Israeli soldiers dead, wounded and captured, and forcing the Israeli occupation forces to retreat.
The al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas, announced that it bombed Tel Aviv with a large rocket barrage, in response to the massacres against Palestinian civilians.
Following the attack, Israeli media reported that 12 rockets were fired from Rafah towards the Gush Dan settlement in the Tel Aviv region, injuring one person. They also noted a heavy barrage of missiles targeting central Israel from Rafah.
Al-Qassam captures Israeli troops, gear in complex Jabalia operation
Hamas' al-Qassam Brigades conducted a complex operation in the Jabalia refugee camp, the details of which were revealed by Abu Obeida.
In a voice-recorded message, al-Qassam's military spokesperson, Abu Obeida, revealed the details of the complex operation, which he said saw Resistance fighters kill, injure, and take captives members of an Israeli force.
Abu Obeida said that the first stage of the operation saw Resistance fighters lure an Israeli occupation force into a tunnel, ambushing them inside. The Brigades' fighters confronted the force at point blank, killing and wounding its members, he said.
After an Israeli reinforcement unit arrived at the scene, the Resistance group targeted it using explosives and confirmed direct hits.
Detonating the tunnel behind them, Abu Obeida said that the "fighters then withdrew... having inflicted casualties on all members of the [Israeli] force, leaving them dead, wounded, or captured, and seizing their military equipment."
