As of December 18, 2023, the Israeli military has killed a total of 458 people, including 136 since October 28, when Israel officially launched the ground war in Gaza, and the remaining more than 300 people died in Israel during the Al-Aqsa flood operation on October 7. That's 32 more than last weekend, 50 days from Oct. 28, with an average of 2. deaths per day72 people, up from 24 people. It can be seen that the Israeli army has paid a greater human cost in the operation in southern Gaza than in the north, and the fighting in the south is more intense.
Most of these dead fighters were between the ages of 19-23.
Last week, the Israeli army mistakenly killed three Israeli hostages who tried to save themselves and escaped wrapped in white cloths, and the Israeli military immediately publicly admitted that it had killed the three hostages by mistake. When we pay attention to the casualties of the Israeli army in Gaza, we will find that a large part of the Israeli army died in traffic accidents and accidental killings by friendly troops, which shows that the state of the Israeli army in Gaza is also relatively chaotic and highly tense to the point of nervousness.
Israeli forces have found the room where the three hostages had been held, and they have written distress messages on the wall with food scraps. In the end, he managed to escape, but died at the gunpoint of his own people.
After a week of heavy fighting, Hamas's resistance in the Gaza Strip appears to be slowing.
Brigadier General Daniel Hajari, a spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces, said: "We have discovered the largest tunnel in the Gaza Strip to date. There is currently no exit to the tunnel into Israeli territory, but one exit is located near the Erez crossing. The tunnel was one of the main tunnels built by the commander-in-chief of the Kasam Brigade, Mohammed Deif. Previously, Israeli military exploration of tunnels was limited to tunnel spurs and shafts, and this is the first time that the main tunnel has been mentioned.
The Israeli side also released a seized **, in which a sedan was driving fast in a tunnel, and the Israeli side judged that the driver of the vehicle was Mohammad Sinwar, the younger brother of Yahya Sinwar. Some people say that Hamas is a gopher, but such a wide and tall tunnel is obviously not something that gophers can dig.
Over the weekend, the Israeli side also attacked the holiday homes of several Hamas leaders, including Sinwar, in Khan Younis. They certainly didn't catch Sinwar, but tried to find information about the hiding and actions of these ** from their villa. The more time passes, the more dangerous Sinwar becomes.
The Israeli side had previously estimated that the tunnels in Gaza were 500 kilometers long, and they planned to fill them in a few weeks. But there are more and more clues that Gaza's tunnel network is more complex and extensive than expected, and Hamas claimed through Al Jazeera over the weekend that the tunnels were designed with flood protection in mind, and that Israel's attempts to fill the tunnels with seawater to drown or force Hamas fighters out of combat positions will not succeed.
Who fooled whom, who is the psychological warfare against whom, we can only wait for the follow-up results.
At present, although the Israeli army is still carrying out bombing and personnel strikes throughout the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army seems to be gradually shifting the focus of its attacks to Lebanese Allah on Israel's northern border.
At midnight on the 17th, an Israeli Air Force fighter attacked Allah infrastructure in Lebanon. In addition, the Israeli Air Force attacked a Allah squad that tried to fire anti-tank missiles at Israeli territory in the Yalong area while hiding in houses.
Recently, Israel announced that it had hit more than 120 Allah ground targets through air strikes.
With the United States and France declaring that they want to fight the Houthis, this war in Gaza is not only Israel's war to clear Hamas in Gaza, but may expand into a full-scale Western attack on "terrorist organizations" in the Middle East with Iran as the background, completely changing the strategic landscape of the Middle East.
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