Israeli military representative doubts Gaza City offensive will defeat Hamas
An Israeli military representative told a Knesset committee that the seizure of Gaza City would not necessarily break Hamas’s hold on the enclave, according to public broadcaster Kan.
During a closed session of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, the representative was asked why occupying Gaza City would compel Hamas “to budge at all”.
“I did not say it would move Hamas, it is not certain at all,” the representative replied, according to Kan. “The city has symbolic significance.”
As we’ve been reporting, Israeli forces are continuing to ramp up attacks in and around Gaza City as they gear up for a full-on invasion. Overnight and into the early morning, Israeli attacks there killed at least nine Palestinians, including four children, according to local hospital sources.
In 2024 the last Hamas stronghold was Rafah. Then back to Khan Yunis, now Gaza city again.... Meanwhile Hamas is recruiting as many or more people than they lose. Which is exactly according to plan to keep the forever war genocide going.
Only one in four detainees from Gaza in Israeli jails are fighters: Report
A report in the British newspaper The Guardian, citing classified data, says only one in four detainees from Gaza are identified as fighters by Israel’s military intelligence, and civilians make up the “vast majority of Palestinians held without charge or trial in abusive prisons”.
It said those serving long sentences in Israeli jails include medical workers, teachers, civil servants, media workers, writers, sick and disabled people and children.
The newspaper said an 82-year-old woman with Alzheimer’s was jailed by Israeli authorities for six weeks, while a single mother was separated from her young children, and when she was released after 53 days, she found the children begging on the streets.
Israel’s infamous Sde Teiman military base, which doubles as a prison for Palestinians, “at one point held so many sick, disabled and elderly Palestinians that they had their own hangar, dubbed ‘the geriatric pen’,” a soldier serving there said.
