Hamas is winning in Gaza, even the Israelis can't hide it anymore
The cat is out of the bag and it is never getting back in again.
Earlier this week, Al Qassam Brigades — the armed wing of Hamas — released an uncharacteristically long video titled “Ambush of the Righteous.” The 8-minute 31-second video shot with multiple cameras showed the Qassam Brigades fighters plan a multi-layered ambush of the genocidal Israelis in Khan Yunis. It involved a meticulously-planned booby-trapping of an Israeli supply route, then lethal firing at the Israelis who came to rescue the dead and injured, followed by a third ambush on tanks that came in for further rescue efforts. The elaborate operation — which Hamas revealed was 50 days in planning — resulted in 14 Israeli deaths.
The “Ambush of the Righteous” on April 6 likely played a huge role in the large-scale Israeli withdrawal from most areas of the Gaza Strip before dawn the following day. What makes the Israeli shellacking even better is that the affected thugs were in the process of wreaking havoc to the Nasser Hospital, just like the way they did to Al-Shifa Hospital some weeks ago.
Talking about the operation to Al Jazeera, the Palestinian resistance called it a small sample of the suffering it is inflicting on the Israeli terrorists in Gaza. A resistance fighter told Al Jazeera, “Al Qassam still has a lot in store. By the grace of Almighty Allah, our righteous fighters prepared a tight, confusing ambush. Its basis was an infantry Zionist enemy force. They caused them death and injuries. They also operated against vehicles that came to support the infantry force, achieving direct hits. We’ll let the footage speak for itself.” The footage, indeed, spoke for itself. Loud and clear.
It laid bare the Israeli lies that it is in operational control in any area of Gaza despite wreaking the kind of havoc that hasn’t been seen in any war in modern history. But wars aren’t won by slaughtering babies. Wars aren’t civilian-butchering contests. Neither are they props for Tinder profile pics. The Palestinian resistance fighters have shown what it takes to battle as they have valiantly confronted the multi-million dollars worth of carefully-crafted armoured tanks — carrying Israeli terrorists too scared to venture out of them — dressed in nothing more than track pants, sandals, and armed with their old and trusted shoulder-fired RPG shells. If heroism on the battlefield were an individual, it wouldn’t look much different from a Palestinian resistance fighter in Gaza.
Other than bravery, the six months of intense battle in Gaza has also revealed Palestinian ingenuity. The resistance fighters have used unexploded Israeli bombs to fire them back at the invading Nazis. It reveals the fighters’ ability to think on their feet as well as resourcefulness in a battle where their enemy is getting free arms on demand from some of the world’s richest nations while they have to repurpose whatever materiel they can after being starved of resources due to years-long siege of their tiny enclave. In one such example of ingenuity, an Al Jazeera documentary from three years ago revealed that resistance fighters dived to the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea to salvage scraps of metal from a sunken World War I British vessel in a bid to refashion them into weapons! Further, they have reverse-engineered sniper rifles to build a product uniquely their own and named it after the resistance legend Adnan Al-Ghoul. It was a Ghoul that was used to eliminate the IDF terrorist who lead the first Al-Shifa operation in mid-November last year.
However, the Qassam fighters’ favourite weapon has been the Gaza-made anti-armour missile, Al Yassin 105, named after the Hamas founder, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. Over the past six months, the Palestinian resistance has fired over 1,200 of them and have caused much destruction in the enemy ranks. Compared to the hundreds of billions of dollars worth of weaponry that the Israelis have expended in Gaza, the resistance war efforts have been built on a proverbial shoestring budget.
Yet, they have managed to successfully fend off what is regarded as one of the strongest armies in the world for over six months. Israelis take much pride in their 1967 military win when they got possession of the West Bank, Gaza, Syria’s Golan Heights, and Egypt’s Sinai in a battle that lasted a mere six days. But after six months of unparalleled butchery, they have failed to exert any measure of control over any part of Gaza, while confronting a resource-starved fighting force.
And now the cat is out of the bag.
The Israeli ground invasion in Gaza had an express mission: to eliminate Hamas. However, six months in, the writing is on the wall (and on the pages of Israel’s most respected daily, Haaretz).
On April 11, Haaretz published an article by the Israeli journalist Chaim Levinson with a stunning headline: “Saying What Can’t Be Said: Israel Has Been Defeated – A Total Defeat.” Levinson gets straight to the point and begins his article thus: “We’ve lost. Truth must be told. The inability to admit it encapsulates everything you need to know about Israel’s individual and mass psychology. There’s a clear, sharp, predictable reality that we should begin to fathom, to process, to understand and to draw conclusions from for the future. It’s no fun to admit that we’ve lost, so we lie to ourselves.” Levinson reserves special bile for Netanyahu, calling him a “scoundrel” but barely hides his enthusiasm for the invasion of Rafah.
Levinson goes on to write: “Hamas will not be eradicated. The hostages will not be returned through military pressure. Security will not be reestablished.”
But that’s not all. Hezbollah’s support to the Palestinian resistance has rendered northern Israel veritable ghost towns and that situation isn’t changing anytime soon. Levinson, like most others, doesn’t see it happening: “It’s unpleasant to say, but we may not be able to safety return to Israel’s northern border, to what had been before. Hezbollah has changed that equation, to its own benefit. That’s the situation.”
Levinson isn’t the only columnist in an Israeli paper, admitting defeat at the hands of a ragtag bunch of besieged fighters. Sir Tom Phillips, a former British diplomat with a past assignment in Israel (and scarcely hidden Zionist sympathies), writes that Hamas has severely dented Israel’s status and revealed the Zionist entity’s façade of invincibility. Phillips writes in Haaretz, “Hamas has also already demonstrated that it is a force to be reckoned with, merely by surviving the IDF onslaught for longer than any war Israel has ever fought. In doing so, they have thoroughly dented Israel’s much vaunted deterrent status. In brief, and with daunting potential long-term consequences for Israel, the IDF no longer looks invincible.”
But more importantly, Phillips writes that Hamas has achieved one of its main targets of Al-Aqsa Flood: putting the Palestinian cause at the forefront internationally. “Indeed, Hamas has achieved what Palestinian Authority President [Mahmoud] Abbas has failed to achieve – putting the Palestinian issue back squarely on the international map, after years in which it has lingered in the ‘Too Difficult’ tray while at the same time being seen as essentially manageable.”
Further, the genocidal nature of the Israeli leadership and society has handed another win for Hamas. Writes Phillips: “Indeed, the head-spinning speed of Israel’s post October 7 delegitimization in the eyes of many in the world can be seen as further evidence of Hamas’s ‘victory.’”
There has been a steady stream of such articles in the Israeli press. Another article in Haaretz written by Amos Harel on April 8 concedes that wholesale slaughter of Palestinian civilians isn’t exactly bringing Israel any closer to its goals in Gaza.
Harel writes: “But the public should be told the truth: The enormous death and destruction the IDF is leaving behind in Gaza, alongside quite a few losses on our side, aren’t currently bringing us any closer to achieving the war’s goals.”
Defeat is also being acknowledged by the Israeli political brass.
Amit Halevi, from Netanyahu’s Likud party, recently listed ten strategic wins for Hamas since October 7 as opposed to a solitary win for the Israelis. Published in the top-selling and Netanyahu-linked Hebrew language outlet Yedioth Ahronoth Halevi listed ten Hamas achievements since October 7:
Military success of the 7 October Al-Aqsa Flood operation
Growing international calls for a Palestinian state
Widespread support for Palestinians among western experts and intellectuals
Harm to the cohesion of Israeli society as a result of a wave of protests demanding the rescue of captives held in Gaza
The activation of multiple regional fronts against Israel
The mass evacuation of settlers from the north
The political isolation of Israel on the global stage
Emigration of about 80,000 Israelis from Israel-occupied Palestine
The wave of antisemitism around the world (the age-old Zionist canard)
An effective naval blockade of Israeli-linked vessels
The sole win for Israel, according to Halevi, has been “the commitment, dedication, and spirit of volunteerism of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and their families” —the lowest hanging fruit that could possibly exist.
Furthermore, the beatings taken by the Israeli terrorists — and possibly the suffering they have inflicted on the defenceless masses — on the Gaza battlefield is taking its toll on the perpetrators. According to Channel 12 of Israel, 10,000 of their military personnel have suffered from psychological symptoms since the war began and thousands more have gone down with physical injuries.
The Israelis, habitual liars that they are, have been reporting just under 300 deaths among its ranks in the Gaza minefield so far, but the true numbers are likely multiple times more going by the evidence of the constant stream of battlefield videos and reports published by the various Palestinian resistance groups.
What’s more, even by the most liberal estimates of the Israeli analysts — and their allies in the West — the Zionists have been able to destroy only 15-20 percent of the Palestinian resistance’s capabilities in Gaza.
As they suffer historic losses against an enemy multiple times smaller than itself —without air defences, tanks, or cruise missiles to boast of — the genocidal Israelis have taken to doing what they do best: butchering the families of Hamas leadership. The latest victims of this uniquely Israeli barbarism were Ismail Haniyeh’s three sons and several grandchildren — who were slaughtered on the first day of Eid festivities.
But none of this murderousness hides the fact that Palestinian resistance has been dealing deadly blows to the usurping Zionists and tearing apart their illegitimate state’s fraudulent aura of invincibility layer by layer. Long may it continue.
What if, after WWII, Jews who wanted to leave Europe and settle in Palestine bought property and became good citizens of an independent state created from the Palestinian mandate? Instead, they came as terrorist gangs intent on wiping out the local populations and haven't changed one bit in the last 75 years. At whose feet do we lay this travesty? Obviously quite a few people. Besides the terrorist Jews I would cite Churchill, Stalin, and Truman. They were terrorists too.
It is a uplifting video, and I might add that living here in the states, we to are hiding casualty counts, but please understand that we in the states apparently LOVE seeing
Body bags coming home, but that too is slowly changing. The wonderful Palestinian People are probably not even aware that humanity itself hinges on their survival.