It has been learned that the new round of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict took a turn for the worse at the end of last month. Senior Hamas officials said they had received a package for a ceasefire agreement from Paris, France, whose main goal was to end Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip and ensure the full withdrawal of Israeli troops from the area. It is not yet known whether the sponsor of the plan is official Israel, but Israel has remained very hawkish in subsequent interviews, with Netanyahu saying in a speech in the West Bank that Israel would not release Palestinian detainees or withdraw its troops from the Gaza Strip until it achieved a "complete victory," which seemed to imply that they had never asked for reconciliation.
On 5 July, Israel's defense minister claimed on the same day that in the nearly four months of fighting, the Israeli army had killed or seriously wounded half of Hamas's personnel and forced its leaders to flee. The background of this incident is that on the 3rd, there were international ** reports that Hamas in northern Gaza suddenly "returned", Hamas has resumed intelligence on its activities in previously occupied northern Gaza, and Hamas police have taken to the streets to communicate with the people. This has led many to question the effectiveness of Israel's military operations, and the Israeli Ministry of Defense has raised its slogans but has not made progress on the results of the hostage rescue, and many have wondered how effective Israel really is.
On the 5th, CBS released an interview with McKenzie, the former commander of the U.S. ** Command, in which the officer mentioned Israel's "clean-up operation" in Gaza, but gave a very low evaluation, believing that the results were "very limited". He said that as far as he knew, Israel had set the goal of eliminating Hamas's political echelon and military leadership at least at the time, but now the result is that they have not broken up Hamas's political echelon and have not wiped out the military leadership, which means that Hamas still exists in Gaza in an organized manner. Mackenzie also mentioned that, at least so far, he has not seen significant results.
So on the one hand, Israel emphasizes that it has "destroyed half of the Hamas elements", and on the other hand, the United States said that they have achieved nothing, whose statement is more credible? Analysts believe that this is not too conflicting, Israel is suspected of falsely reporting its achievements and estimating the reduction of its own ** number, and the exact number of Hamas elements is an undetermined number, and there is no basis for Israel to "eliminate half" of it. In addition, their real fighting in Gaza is progressing more difficult than expected, and Israel has not been able to find Hamas's cognitive hideouts and high-level leaders, only publicly claiming to have killed a few high-ranking people**, which is far from enough to compare with their goals.
It is also worth mentioning that another reason why observers believe Netanyahu wants a "quick fix" is that if the fighting drags on, his dominance at home is already in jeopardy. Anti-Netanyahu demonstrations have erupted in several cities across Israel, from Tel Aviv to everywhere in the country. "How can Israeli Defense Minister Gallant account for the fact that the humanitarian crisis is well known to the world, and how little progress has been made, when Israeli Defense Minister Gallant has ordered a total blockade of the Gaza Strip, cutting off food, electricity and gas**, and the humanitarian crisis is well known to the world," said one comment. ”