'Israel' far from destroying Hamas; razing Gaza to the ground instead

By Al Mayadeen English
Source: The Washington Post
20 Dec 2023 19:27
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The Israeli occupation President tries to paint "Israel" in a bright light, hoping to diminish the pressure of Western allies.

Israeli occupation President Isaac Herzog poses for a portrait in the shade of a Palestinian olive tree, in occupied al-Quds, occupied Palestine, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. (AP)

Hamas is entrenched and difficult to defeat. Even after waging one of the most intense aggressions in recent history, "Israel" has only managed to neutralize a fraction of the Resistance group’s armed strength, a report by The Washington Post revealed.

In the process of going after an inherent Resistance, the Israeli occupation has ravaged the Strip, forcefully displaced close to 90 percent of the population, flattened entire neighborhoods, caused a dire humanitarian disaster, and found itself flailing in a losing battle for global public opinion.

Amid mounting pressure on "Israel" from its allies to conduct more "surgical" operations in the Strip, Israeli President Isaac Herzog pushed back and went as far as saying, "We intend to take over the entire Gaza Strip and change the course of history."

Herzog spoke, on Tuesday, in an interview facilitated by a Wahington-based think tank, the Atlantic Council, where he claimed that Hamas, the Palestinian liberation movement whose military Resistance wing launched Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, is a "force of evil."

This claim comes as part of ongoing attempts to whitewash the image of "Israel" while it carries out a genocide in the Gaza Strip, targeting civilians, children, women, displaced persons, hospitals, and places of worship indiscriminately.

Herzog also claimed that the ongoing "clash" is that of "a set of civilizational values" in a statement that echoes an earlier statement he had made about "Israel" defending "Western Civilization" through ethnic cleansing.

The mayor of the Israeli "Metula" settlement is not hiding his nazi tendencies anymore. The #Polish Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum strongly condemned the atrocious statement.

What the Israeli occupation is committing in #Gaza now is nothing short of a genocide. The IOF has… pic.twitter.com/PrxHdXevTh
— Al Mayadeen English (@MayadeenEnglish) December 18, 2023

However, in parallel, the Palestinian Resistance in the Gaza Strip, despite all criminal carpet bombing of "Israel" continues to operate in full force proving once again that the target of the Israeli occupation forces in the Strip has been civilians, and no military goals have been achieved.

Al-Qassam targets 12 IOF soldiers in one hit, strikes 'Tel Aviv'

Palestinian Resistance factions continue to confront invading Israeli occupation forces across the Gaza axes, while also striking "Tel Aviv", settlements, and Israeli military sites with rocket barrages despite the war entering its 12th week.

Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas movement, claimed responsibility for targeting "Tel Aviv" multiple times with rocket barrages in response to the Israeli massacres against innocent civilians in Gaza.

The operations show that, despite the occupation's claims and objectives to "eradicate" the Resistance, ground developments are revealing that this is not the case, with no signs that this will change shortly.