Social media platforms were abuzz after reports were issued about the Hamas movement deploying police forces and civil servants in the northern Gaza Strip. The Israeli army withdrew completely from several areas in the northwest of the Gaza Strip, for the first time since the start of the ground incursion on the twenty-seventh of last October.

The reactions of some tweeters varied between pride in the resistance’s heroic steadfastness in the face of the occupation forces, and warnings about the possibility of using an air war strategy only.