Military and strategic expert, Major General Fayez Al-Duwairi, believes that the Palestinian resistance’s continued firing of missiles towards Israel belies the occupation’s narrative, which says that it has controlled 40% of the northern Gaza Strip.
He added – in his analysis to Al Jazeera – that the fighting between the Palestinian resistance and the occupation forces is taking place in Beit Hanoun in the far north-east, and rockets are still being fired and it is not known where they are being fired from, which confirms from a military point of view that Israel has not controlled 40% of the area of northern Gaza. As you claim.
According to the military expert, the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), has the ability to launch missiles targeting the strategic center of gravity in Tel Aviv, including the economic, commercial, political and security dimensions.
If the Al-Qassam Brigades – Al-Duwairi adds – are still capable of launching rockets in broad daylight, this means that there is no Israeli control over 40% of the area of northern Gaza.
The Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement, announced today that it bombed the settlements of Nirim, Nir Ishaq, and Nir Oz in the Gaza Strip with missile attacks, in response to the targeting of civilians in Gaza.
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Al-Duwairi spoke about the resistance’s missile capacity, and said that some Western estimates indicated that in 2021, the Qassam Brigades had between 50,000 and 30,000 missiles, and “if we use the minimum, the Qassam Brigades used a third of the force, given that no weapons were manufactured.” Rocket since 2021.
He considered that the continued launching of missiles, in terms of the presence of sufficient stocks to manage a long-term battle – and the Israelis talked about 6 months – is a comfortable thing for the resistance, whose leaders he said are still active and are the ones who control the strings of the game, that is, they choose the time, place, and goal.
Al-Duwairi wondered about the location of the missiles launched by the resistance. Are they above the ground and being launched despite the presence of drones, helicopters and satellites? Pointing out the resistance’s ease and skill in employing tools.
The military expert asserted that the occupation army did not achieve any military achievement other than the destruction of hospitals, schools, and mass transportation for Palestinians in Gaza.
He said that the faltering battle in northern Gaza made the occupation army try its luck in southern Gaza, and that he took advantage of the temporary humanitarian truce period to save himself, as withdrawing his forces now remains to complete previous operations or to occupy the fighters in the northern region.
A leadership source in the Al-Qassam Brigades revealed that the Israeli ground operation is currently focused in the south of the Gaza Strip, coinciding with limited maneuver operations in the north, stressing that 70% of the Israeli forces have withdrawn from the north of the Gaza Strip as a result of the failure of their operations and because of resistance strikes.
Regarding the conflicting Israeli statements, between those who say that the occupation forces are close to completing their mission, and those who acknowledge the difficulty of fighting in northern Gaza, Al-Duwairi stressed that this contradiction reflects the presence of ambiguity in the scene and inaccuracy in the information held by the Israelis.
