The Times of Israel said that there is a wide discrepancy between the way Israel tries to market its military operations against the Gaza Strip, and the way in which the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) has succeeded in presenting its war against Israel to the Palestinian and Arab public.
In an article for its Middle East analyst, Avi Issacrov, she stated that at a time when Israel is seeking to achieve tactical victories, such as bombing Hamas’s tunnels network in the Gaza Strip, destroying high-rise towers and targeting weapons stores and rocket launchers, Hamas is achieving a strategic and precedent victory in the Palestinian, Arab and even sectors. Israeli.
Unprecedented achievement
The newspaper says that regardless of the continuous barrage of fire that continues to rain down inside Israel, the movement managed to achieve an unprecedented achievement during the past two days, as it was able to mobilize the sympathy of thousands of Palestinian demonstrators in the West Bank.
The West Bank has remained far from the current escalation until the last two days, and only a few people have gone out to demonstrate, but that changed on Friday, as protests and riots erupted on a scale not seen in the West Bank for years, during which 10 Palestinians were killed.
The sympathy with Hamas also led to a slight launch of rockets from Lebanon and Syria towards Israel, and most of all, the statement to the newspaper, that Hamas was able to attract the Palestinians of 1948 to its battle, as the recent acts of violence indicate the possibility of sliding into a civil war inside Israel, which is viewed by the circles Palestinian as an achievement for Hamas.
Exclusion of discount
The newspaper said that Israel's military response to Gaza began to exhaust its goals, and that the Israeli army bombed countless military targets, and achieved some important results.
On the other hand, it leaves civilian casualties, as happened in the Shati refugee camp in the early hours of dawn yesterday, Saturday, when the Israeli bombing killed 10 members of the Abu Hatab family, including 8 children, in a raid that Israeli military sources said later targeted a meeting of senior Hamas officials.
The newspaper’s analysis ruled out that Israel could achieve a decisive victory in this round of conflict with Hamas, and considered that targeting a military facility in Gaza, a missile production plant, a center for the leadership of the resistance, or some leaders of Hamas would not change the general reality of the conflict between the two parties.