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Military expert Major General Fayez Al-Duwairi said that Israel's talk about the completion of the Khan Yunis operation is not true, stressing that it reflects a failure to read the battle accurately and plan for it day by day due to the blurring of objectives.

Al-Duwairi added - in an analysis on Al Jazeera - that military objectives must be set according to the geographical dimension so that a plan can be developed to achieve them, stressing that what is currently happening is merely an Israeli reaction to the resistance strikes.

The military expert based his statement on launching new attacks on the Al-Qarara area, which was entered and withdrawn from more than once because it was located on the supply line from Kissufim to Khan Yunis.

Clashes, not battles

Regarding the situation on the ground, Al-Duwairi said that what is happening in the Gaza Strip are clashes and not battles in the traditional sense, and it is likely that Israel will announce within days that Khan Yunis has entered the third phase.

He added that Khan Yunis entering the third phase of the Israeli ground operation "will not differ from the northern Gaza Strip entering this phase, after which operations returned strongly, especially in Al-Rimal, Tal Al-Hawa, and Al-Rashid Street."

Regarding the resistance situation, he said that the current performance is still coherent and strong in the north and Khan Yunis, “and this makes the Israeli talk about ending operations within weeks inconsistent with reality.”

However, Al-Duwairi said that time "is working against both sides, because the resistance has been under siege for years and is facing the challenge of preserving the lives of prisoners, because the most important pressure card is in their hands, while the Israeli army is suffering from stress and a shortage of forces that its leaders are talking about."

Al-Duwairi fears that the port currently being worked on in Gaza is a prelude to carrying out the displacement process in another way, and not to serve the population, the sick, and the wounded, as is rumored.

Source: Al Jazeera