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Five weeks after Hamas’s atrocities against civilians in Israel and the start of the Gaza war, the Islamist-Palestinian organization has lost “control in Gaza”, in the words of Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (65).
Hamas fighters are fleeing into southern Palestinian territory and civilians are looting Hamas bases, Gallant said in a video broadcast by Israeli television stations on Monday.
“There is no Hamas force capable of holding back Israel’s armed forces,” Gallant said. His troops would advance ‘in every place’. The Hamas organization has lost control in Gaza. Terrorists flee south, civilians plunder Hamas bases.” The civilian population “no longer trusts the government” of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Gallant said. He has not provided any evidence for his statements.
Netanyahu provides insight into post-Hamas Gaza
Israeli media reported on Monday, citing army representatives, that some 30,000 Hamas soldiers, who had been divided into 24 battalions before the start of the war, had suffered “major blows” in the past five weeks, and that several battalions were killed after the war. dead were left without a leader. of their commanders and were no longer fully capable of fighting.
Gaza’s parliament is also in Israeli hands. Images on social media show soldiers carrying Israeli flags in the Palestinian parliament building. There are still no binding plans regarding the governance of the Gaza Strip after the end of the Israeli military operation and any permanent Israeli security presence in the Palestinian territories.
Soldiers from Israel’s Golani infantry unit raised Israeli flags in the meeting room of the Palestinian Legislative Council in the Rimal neighborhood on Monday. The Islamist Hamas won the 2006 parliamentary elections against the more moderate Fatah of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. A year later, Hamas forcibly took exclusive control of the Gaza Strip.
Since Hamas came to power, there have been de facto two separate governments: one in Gaza and one in Ramallah. There have been no new parliamentary or presidential elections since the start of the fraternal war between the two rival Palestinian organizations. The Legislative Council has not met since Hamas came to power in Gaza in June 2007. At the end of 2018, Abbas declared it dissolved. The parliament building in Gaza was only used by Hamas representatives.
Soldiers from Israel’s Golani infantry unit raised Israeli flags in the meeting room of the Palestinian Legislative Council in the Rimal neighborhood on Monday. The Islamist Hamas won the 2006 parliamentary elections against the more moderate Fatah of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. A year later, Hamas forcibly took exclusive control of the Gaza Strip.
Since Hamas came to power, there have been de facto two separate governments: one in Gaza and one in Ramallah. There have been no new parliamentary or presidential elections since the start of the fraternal war between the two rival Palestinian organizations. The Legislative Council has not met since Hamas came to power in Gaza in June 2007. At the end of 2018, Abbas declared it dissolved. The parliament building in Gaza was only used by Hamas representatives.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told US broadcaster Fox News last week that his country has no intention of ‘occupying’ or governing the Gaza Strip after the end of the war with Hamas. The enclave must be ‘demilitarized, deradicalized and rebuilt’.
End of the war unknown
Israel must find a “civilian government” to govern the enclave, which has been ruled by Hamas since 2006, Netanyahu said, not specifying who would form such a body. “We don’t want to govern Gaza, we don’t want to occupy it,” the Israeli head of government said. “But we are trying to give Gaza and ourselves a better future. That requires defeating Hamas.” Netanyahu “set goals, but did not set a timetable because it could take longer.”
Meanwhile, the Israeli military said its soldiers would “continue to carry out raids and attack terrorist infrastructure located in government buildings and among the civilian population,” including “schools, universities and mosques.” In the Abu Bakr Mosque, soldiers found “a large quantity of explosives,” as well as weapons, military equipment and Hamas operational plans.
Defense Secretary Gallant spoke of coordinated, precise strikes by air, sea and land forces carried out based on accurate intelligence. (with AFP)
Source: Blick
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