The New York Times reported that US intelligence officials told Congress this week that Israel had weakened the fighting capabilities of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) The session of intelligence officials in Congress, which took place behind closed doors, did not address estimates related to human losses among the movement’s fighters. The Israeli occupation government announced at the beginning of the aggression on the Gaza Strip that eliminating Hamas was one of the main goals of the war.
Last November, the American newspaper The Wall Street Journal quoted an informed source as saying that the American intelligence community doubts Israel's ability to achieve its declared military goal.