https://aljazeera.com/news/analysis-is-the-israeli-army-as-milit…
The first military reaction was in line with the Israeli military doctrine of powerful attacks against previously designated targets. It took a few days for everyone to get their act together, create the emergency unity government (that mostly unified belligerent right-wingers) and proclaim a huge mobilisation of 360,000 reservists.
Three weeks later, amid continuous indiscriminate bombardment, the Israeli army crossed into Gaza. Then, in more than two months of ground combat, the army cut Gaza in three, surrounding Gaza City and isolating Khan Younis. Most Palestinians fled to the south, where they now crowd Rafah in unbearable conditions.
Israel maintains that although it has not yet defeated Hamas, it is close to its proclaimed goal, claiming to have “eliminated” 8,500 fighters.
The exact number would depend on how many Hamas fighters are among the 21,800 killed so far. If the Israeli claim of 8,500 Hamas fighters is true, that would still mean that 13,300 civilians, including 8,600 children, have been killed. If Hamas has lost 4,000 people – a figure I find much more credible – the number of civilians who have been killed intentionally or by the negligence of the Israeli military is well above 17,000.
That number is considered unacceptable, under any conditions, by many people across the globe who believe that whenever and however the war ends, those dead civilians will come back to haunt the whole of Israel.
@9HSTSS44mos4MO
The Zionist government that colonized the Palestinian peninsula and has terrorized the indigenous people of that land for the last 8 decades needs to be stopped and I am ashamed that my government has sided with the absolutely wrong side in this conflict!
@DaFanky 5mos5MO
No, I wouldn't call it being successful if a 35 year old man beat a child in an MMA match. So it's not a success when a country with the backing of the worlds largest military is winning in its efforts to decimate a civilian population.
@Patriot-#1776Constitution5mos5MO
Are you aware how evil Hamas is, and the October 7th butchery they committed? Both sides are at fault here, don't act as if it's a one-sided good-versus-evil clear-cut struggle for liberty.
@9CJ6CB64mos4MO
Yet Hamas is not in fact Palestine. The same way the government isn’t the country.
@Patriot-#1776Constitution4mos4MO
Palestine is funding Hamas. That's like the United States funding the Ku Klux Klan and having them invade Cuba. Not much different.
@9CJ6CB64mos4MO
Because Hamas is at its head, what a SURPRISING thing about government power. They’re not assassins for hire, they’re at the helm of the government itself, so Palestine doesn’t have much of a choice.
@9HSVSHW 4mos4MO
There should be a permanent ceasefire and aid immediately allowed into Gaza.
@9HSWPDN4mos4MO
I don't think it matters so much if they are "militarily successful". I'm not sure what success is supposed to mean. If terrorizing civilians and perpetuating genocide is a military goal, then, I think they are successful.
@9HSTBQZIndependent4mos4MO
Gaza is already occupied by Israel and has been for decades now. This should've been dealt with by now.
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