Al-Shajaiyyah; The nightmare of Israeli soldiers

According to the report of Fars International News Agency, on the morning of Friday, December 15, the Palestinian media announced that violent clashes between the resistance groups and the Israeli army, which tried to penetrate Al-Shajaiyeh neighborhood for several days, took place. it fell.

It was on Wednesday, December 13, that the Hebrew channel “Kan” announced a major defeat for the Israeli army with dozens of dead and wounded in Al-Shuja’iyya and said that in the clashes last night And according to the latest statistics, 10 army soldiers from the Golani brigade have been killed; The exact number of wounded is not known.

Some of the dead of the Israeli army in Al-Shaja’iyah

“A group of soldiers from the 53rd Golani Brigade entered the buildings in this neighborhood when they were suddenly caught in one of the ambushes of the al-Qassam battalions. A bomb exploded in front of the door of one of the buildings, as a result of which 4 soldiers were injured and communication with them was cut off. It was believed that these forces were captured. Other soldiers from Rescue Unit 669 moved towards this building, and after reaching there, they were shot by Al-Qassam fighters, and two of these soldiers were immediately killed. Colonel Ishaq bin Bashat, who was advancing, was caught and killed immediately”; This was Kahn’s report of the details of the conflict.

The military reporter of the Hebrew newspaper “Ma’ariv” described the extent and volume of the attacks against the Israeli soldiers and announced “the number of rockets that Hamas forces fired at the tanks in Al-Shuja’i neighborhood And the Israeli armored vehicles fired, it cannot be counted”.

Israeli soldiers in eastern Gaza

Even “Tamer Greenberg”, the commander of the 13th Golani brigade battalion, who until the last week of the incident, was chanting and addressing the resistance fighters that “Let’s see who is better prepared for war, we have a great desire to attack and kill more of you…” was also killed and this was a shock to the Israelis.

The report of the defeat of the Golani brigade in Al-Shajaiyya was so hard and heavy. that the Israelis stopped analyzing the general goals of the war and focused on the east of Gaza. “Yediot Aharanot” newspaper, quoting its informed sources in the army, wrote that “the destruction of Al-Qassam forces in Al-Shaja’iyyah became impossible even with aerial bombardments; The battle and clashes in this neighborhood are very difficult and deadly”.

The reaction of the Israeli media to the heavy casualties of the Golani Brigade in Al-Shaja’iyya was almost the same, and what about the media close to Benjamin’s cabinet. Netanyahu and his opposing media circles only reminded him of one thing and that was “defeat with high casualties”. These media did not make a difference between Netanyahu’s war management and his opponents and wrote that “again the forces of the Golani brigade are killed in Al-Shajaiyeh neighborhood and this time Benny Gantz is managing the war; Nothing has changed!”.

It is as if this failure was a reminder of the stalemate of the Israeli military in the 2014 battle during the conflict with the Palestinian resistance; That same year, the Tel Aviv army was drowned in the Al-Shajaie resistance swamp with high casualties. “Walla” news site recalled the memory of that failure; The defeat that the Zionist military narrates like this: “That day was one of the most difficult days and the atmosphere in the brigade after that operation was very tense and difficult; The brigade commander, his deputy and another officer were injured and the soldiers were not doing well. I will not forget that day; In the middle of the fire, we were looking for the dead bodies of fellow soldiers.” where he admitted, “This is the same al-Shuja’iyyah who targeted this battalion 9 years ago with the same strategy. Repeated failures in this area had a heavy price for us; including the captivity of Oron Shaul, who is still in the hands of Hamas… we are experiencing a cold and difficult cycle”.

Al-Shuja’iyya has once again become the strategic depth of conflicts and now what the political circles And what scares Israel’s military is the policy of ambiguity and the adoption of surprise tactics by Hamas during hand-to-hand conflicts; These developments have led analysts to believe that the real battle in Al-Shajaiyya has not yet begun. Currently, it is going on in the north of Shujaiyeh neighborhood on the left and right side of Baghdad Street and at limited intervals based on satellite images, he emphasized that “the real battle has not been done… What is happening now in Al-Shujaiyeh is the beginning of the battle; Because the main weight of the resistance has not yet entered the field and this shows that the conflict is still within the scope of operations of a certain part of the Palestinian fighters”.

Al-Doweiri, an expert on military issues and host of Al-Jazeera network

The defeat of the Golani brigade in the east Gaza [after demoralizing the military] has led war observers in Tel Aviv to question the Israeli military’s overall capabilities and even partial chances for any gains, and to propose solutions that are unpopular among Netanyahu’s hawkish and hard-line cabinet. .

Haaretz newspaper, summarizing this type of Zionist view, writes that “the Israeli army is capable of realizing the goals of our political circles during the remaining time in Gaza. will not be. Despite heavy army casualties, there are no signs that Hamas’ defeat is imminent. The relative superiority of the Israeli military is decreasing; The superiority of our technology and information is not very efficient even in Al-Shuja’i region; There is no reason for Hamas to feel that its bargaining power is weakening”.

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