PNN – An American official has underestimated Israel’s progress in the war against Hamas in Gaza.
According to Pakistan News Network, a senior US government official told NBC that Joe Biden’s administration does not consider Benjamin Netanyahu’s public statements about the ceasefire agreement to mean a rejection of the ceasefire.
Netanyahu has previously said he will not agree to any ceasefire plan that includes provisions for the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza or the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.
A US government official told NBC that the Joe Biden administration believes that the situation is changing because Israel has not made as much progress in the war against Hamas as it had hoped, and Netanyahu is facing increasing public pressure to release prisoners from Hamas.
According to this American official, Netanyahu’s public statements show the influence of extreme right-wing members in the coalition cabinet, who have threatened to leave the cabinet and overthrow the coalition cabinet if he shows flexibility.
Israel has determined the release of prisoners from Gaza and the destruction of Hamas as its war goals in Gaza. Despite this, the realization of both of these goals has reached a dead end.
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The New York Times reported a few weeks ago that a number of senior Israeli army commanders have now come to the conclusion that achieving both goals at the same time is not possible and that any long-term plan to destroy Hamas will inevitably lead to the death of prisoners.
In addition, many analysts have questioned the possibility of the complete destruction of Hamas even in occupied Palestine. “Gadi Eisenkot”, one of the former officials of the Israeli army, who is currently a member of Benjamin Netanyahu’s war cabinet, in an interview some time ago described the promises of the Israeli authorities for the complete destruction of Hamas as “storytelling”.
Ehud Olmert, the former prime minister of the Zionist regime, also wrote in a note in Haaretz newspaper some time ago that Netanyahu himself knows that he is not able to eliminate Hamas.
Western analysts say that the Palestinian Islamic resistance movement, Hamas, has survived repeated attempts by the Israeli regime to eliminate itself since its inception. Military and political experts told The New York Times last month that the structure of the organization was designed to withstand plots to destroy it.
In an interview with this American newspaper, Giora Eiland, a former Israeli officer who served as the head of Israel’s Internal Security Council, said that Hamas has shown that it has the ability to immediately replace its dead commanders with others who are equally capable.
On October 7th, the Islamic resistance movement of Palestine, Hamas, in response to more than seven decades of occupation of Palestine and nearly two decades of siege of Gaza and imprisonment and torture of thousands of Palestinians, started the operation known as “Al-Aqsa Storm”.
This operation was one of the deadliest attacks against this regime. Hamas fighters penetrated into the occupied territories through the border fences at several points, attacked the villages and besides killing a large number of Israelis, captured a number of them. Reports indicate that Hamas is currently holding 136 Israeli prisoners in Gaza.
In response to this operation, the Zionist regime launched heavy attacks against Gaza and put this area under complete siege. Nearly 27,000 Palestinians have been martyred in Israel’s attacks in Gaza so far, and tens of thousands more have been injured. Despite this, as analysts say, the al-Aqsa storm operation has imposed a major security-political defeat on Israel.